Calls have been made for the Health Minister James Reilly to extend the role of the pharmacist to provide additional vaccination services - such as pneumonia, Hepatitis B, cervical cancer and travel vaccines.

One of the country's leading pharmacists today urged a re-think on how some big brand painkillers are sold as concerns mount about legal drug abuse.

THE public is being forced to pay unnecessarily high sums for important medi-cines that should be made available over the counter, the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) has claimed.

Elderly people on medication risk accidental overdose because they may not know their correct dosage, it was warned today.

Pharmacists today added their voice to growing pressure on the Government to cut tax on condoms.