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
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Strange bed fellows
Thursday 11 November 2021, 10:01 AM

Have anti-vaccination protesters been sucked into QAnon messaging? [Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash]
Doctors opposed to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations find themselves in the company of anti-semitics, gun lobbyists and Trump supporters, writes Jim Vause
Those NZDSOS quacks have been rather quiet of late, except for Dr Febery who was singularly unsuccessful in convincing High Court Justice Francis Coo
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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