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
Cure for cancer? Some old dogs already have new tricks
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Cure for cancer? Some old dogs already have new tricks
Friday 13 March 2020, 12:34 PM

Amy van der Loo rounds up the clinical education content in the latest issue of New Zealand Doctor. Use the embedded links to go through to the relevant ELearning page
Many of us have watched someone close to us suffer immensely from the grips of cancer, probably with profound disappointment at the therapeutic option
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