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
Getting guys into wearable art
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Getting guys into wearable art
Thursday 30 November 2023, 03:07 PM

Wakefield GP Ben Ng-Wai Shing’s entry in the bizarre bra section at the World of WearableArt show [Image: Mark Tantrum]
Reporter Alan Perrott is wowed by his recent theatrical experience and wonders why other blokes haven’t got with the programme
You’d focus on one thing for the barest of moments, then look up to find the entire staging had morphed
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Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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