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
Maria Ressa: Nobel prize-winner risks life and liberty to hold Philippines government to account
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Maria Ressa: Nobel prize-winner risks life and liberty to hold Philippines government to account
Monday 11 October 2021, 03:29 PM
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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2021
Tom Smith is principal lecturer in international relations & academic director of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell at University of Portsmouth
The importance of journalists who take considerable risks to bring people the truth in countries where this involves going up against authoritarian go, Maria Ressa. The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 [Image: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach]
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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