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
Livestreamed massacre means it's time to shut down Facebook Live
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Livestreamed massacre means it's time to shut down Facebook Live
Monday 25 March 2019, 01:58 PM

Facebook can be really fun - or really scary. (Photo: Sebastiaan ter Burg, Wikicommons)
Jennifer Grygiel is assistant professor of communications (social media) & magazine at Syracuse University in New York
When word broke that the massacre in New Zealand was livestreamed on Facebook, I immediately thought of Robert Godwin Sr. In 2017, Godwin was murdered
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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