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Health – Winter vaccines as important as ever

Amazingly enough, it’s already time to start considering your winter vaccines this year, namely influenza and Covid. The Northern Hemisphere is dubbing this winter’s flu...

Health – Why a good pharmacy matters

Pharmacy has changed so much over the past few years that it has  become almost unrecognisable from even a couple of decades ago. Gone are...

Health – Melatonin, the sleep hormone

In exciting pharmacy news, melatonin is moving from the dispensary shelves out to the shop shelves. While it is still available on prescription from your...

Health – Exercise and diet can impact dementia

A new study has revealed two remarkably simple habits that could help delay Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia is a disease that involves changes in memory, thinking,...

Health – Does sunshine make you happy?

Sunshine represents light and warmth and all things happy! But maybe there is a little bit of science to help explain exactly why it makes...

Health – Prepare for winter illnesses now

The United States is just ending a severe influenza (flu) season with hospitalisations caused by the flu virus at their highest in 15 years. While...

Health – Revolutionising diabetes care

Imagine a world where diabetes has virtually become a thing of the past. Where, in place of a non-functioning pancreas, a robot does all the...

Health – Preventing Skin Cancer

It’s always a hard thing to fathom, that something you do today could affect you so terribly in 30 years. But that’s what most skin...

Health – Tired of hayfever?

We all know the typical symptoms of hayfever such as sneezing, blocked nose and itchy eyes. However, here is a list of surprising symptoms that...

Health – That wee problem

Urinary incontinence, it turns out, is not a wee problem, but actually a very large one for many Kiwis. While some men do suffer from...