October 2018

Clive Cannons, owner of Clive’s Chemist in Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt,shares his love of long-distance running with reporter Nerine Zoio

In 2012, the New Zealand natural health products industry surpassed $1 billion in revenue, according to a New Zealand Trade and Enterprise study, and it continues to grow

Boron is a strange element and some of its effects on the human body are still not fully understood. Complementary medicines expert Shaun Holt explores what we do know

Emma Jarman, retail counter manager at Auckland’s Life Pharmacy Sylvia Park, discusses her approach to anxiety disorders

Pharmacists are being asked to hold an amnesty for unused antibiotics in an effort to help curb drug-resistant infections.

With the recent 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, Miranda Cook looks at the place of women in pharmacy and talks to women who have broken down barriers in what once was a male preserve

Christchurch Māori pharmacist Brendon McIntosh recently attended the 2018 Young Leaders for Health challenge in Berlin, Germany

The revamped pharmacy services contract that promises more funding and more protection for pharmacists is looking like a done deal, but not everyone wants to sign it.  

Pharmacy owners thr­oughout New Zea­land are being forced to display expired licences due to processing delays at Medsafe. 

 A rural Rangitikei district pharmacy appears to have caught Medicines Control without rules to back up its audit demands.