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02 Apr 2025
Quit-smoking aids don’t raise risk of major birth defects – study
Pregnant women who need help to stop smoking can be reassured quit aids such as nicotine patches and varenicline do not...
04 Nov 2024
MedSafety Week
From 4 to 10 November 2024, Medsafe and other medicines regulators from around the world are teaming up on social media...
06 Nov 2023
MedSafety Week
From 6 to 12 November 2023, Medsafe and other medicines regulators from around the world are teaming up on social media...
07 Dec 2022
Postpartum diabetes testing low for women with gestational diabetes
Women with gestational diabetes are seven times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those without, yet over a te...
07 Nov 2022
Med Safety Week
It's Med Safety Week. Watch the video to learn what to do if you experience side effects from your medication.
24 Aug 2021
Type 2 diabetes treatment pathways in New Zealand
A nationwide study by a medical student, Joyce Guo, and researchers from the Pharmacoepidemiology Research Network has f...
13 Aug 2021
Dual treatment increases risk of heart attack – study
People using two different inhalers for common chronic lung diseases are more than 50 per cent more likely to have a hea...
05 Aug 2021
Low adherence to diabetes medication concerning – Otago study
Groups who suffer the highest burden of type 2 diabetes have the lowest level of adherence to effective medication to co...
28 Jul 2021
Researchers receive funding to investigate use and safety of anti-nausea drug in pregnancy
Associate Professor Lianne Parkin and colleagues from the Pharmacoepidemiology Research Network have been awarded $1.2 m...
08 Jun 2021
What helps and hinders metformin adherence and persistence
University of Otago research into what helps and hinders people with type 2 diabetes correctly taking, and continuing to...
19 May 2021
Study tracks antidepressant use during pregnancy
Almost half of New Zealand women who take antidepressants in the months before getting pregnant, stop during their pregn...
09 Feb 2021
The Science of Medicines – a programme for tamariki
NTMHRU, medicine, science, tamariki