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
Nothing Under Four Stars: Billie Marten's lyrical power and musical complexity
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Nothing Under Four Stars: Billie Marten's lyrical power and musical complexity
Monday 2 October 2023, 10:36 AM

Billie Marten offers impeccable vocals and a wealth of impressive tracks on her latest album [Image: @ammara.elsevier]
Celebrating 20 years of service in general practice, my wife and I are touring Europe. And the leprechauns in our GPS are having a field day. While I complete the rallies of Eire and the Scottish Highlands piloting a rental car through roads not even wide enough for one horse and cart (let alone the wide-load tractors towing barley for whisky malt), this music has been calming the nerves
Drop Cherries, Billie Marten
Fiction Records, 2023
Crossing the narrow footbridges between folk, singer-songwriter, and chamber music is the mesmerising voice
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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