BackgroundThe New Zealand Formulary for Children (NZFc) was developed to build on the New Zealand Universal List of Medicines through the addition of clinical information about medicines use in paediatrics. The structure and content of the NZFc is based on the British National Formulary for ...
New Zealand and the United States are the only two advanced nations to permit direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines, but they use very different regulatory regimes. This paper examines the evolution of DTCA in both countries, compares the New Zealand self-regulatory model...
The New Zealand Formulary for Children (NZFC) devel-oped a process to provide antimicrobial guidance based on the best available evidence from regulatory data, pro-fessional guidelines, clinical experience and clinical con-sensus. Methods Indications and doses for antimicrobial med-ications in the ...