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
What about us? Queen St climate change march brings the Pacific's reality home
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What about us? Queen St climate change march brings the Pacific's reality home
Friday 27 September 2019, 04:42 PM

Tens of thousands marched down Auckland’s Queen St in the youth-led climate change protest
New Zealand Doctor reporter Simon Maude and colleagues were taken aback at today's powerful display of Pasifika-flavoured youth activism leading Auckland's climate change protest march
The penny dropped. Dozens of low-lying, sea-ringed states, the likes of Kiribati, Nauru, the Marshall Islands and the above, face inundation, which re, Climate change protest 2019 B, Pasifika flags dominated the Auckland climate change protest
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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