For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
Breakthroughs in the search for clues to 'broken heart syndrome'
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Breakthroughs in the search for clues to 'broken heart syndrome'
Tuesday 10 July 2018, 10:38 AM
![Genetics professor Martin Kennedy in his lab at Christchurch hospital. The condition seems to have genetic causes and is triggered by huge stress [photo: Iain McGregor]](/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image_16_7_/public/2018-07/Kennedy.jpg?itok=0Bh4ngcO)
Genetics professor Martin Kennedy in his lab at Christchurch hospital. The condition seems to have genetic causes and is triggered by huge stress [photo: Iain McGregor/Stuff]
Clue by clue, New Zealand researchers are putting together the many pieces of a heart condition that mostly strikes older women. Will Harvie from Stuff reports
It turned out that Christchurch was the best place in the world to study the puzzling heart condition called stress cardiomyopathy.
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