Pharmac is looking at widening access to three funded treatments – adalimumab, etanercept and tocilizumab – to enable more young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to benefit from these medicines
COVID-19 demands have slightly delayed a Pharmac decision on long sought-after new diabetes treatments but the drugs may still be funded from this year
Some pharmacies are already down to their last packs of funded paracetamol 500mg tablets, after Pharmac announced on Friday that the national stock of the painkiller is about to run dry
Period poverty advocate and researcher Sarah Donovan’s application to fund sanitary products was in part a lever to get the issue of period poverty in New Zealand noticed
Most funded medicines will return to all at once dispensing because PHARMAC is removing most of the temporary dispensing restrictions put in place to manage supply during COVID-19. The change will be effective from midnight Friday 31 July 2020
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management