29 January 2010 | Provisions to limit medication errors need to be implemented in new health care safety standards being developed by the Government, according to the medical technology industry.
28 January 2010 | A drug information telephone hotline used by pharmacists will be shut down in the middle of the year because of rising costs and limited reach.
27 January 2010 | Proposed new measures that aim to make a distinction between drugs and food products that look like drugs still leave a "grey area", according to makers and retailers of complementary medicines.
23 October 2009 | Heroin has continued its decline as the main drug of addiction for people seeking treatment, according to a new report into drug services released today.
24 September 2009 | The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in early pregnancy, particularly sertraline and citalopram, may increase a baby’s risk of septal heart defects, new research has found.