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
The HPV vaccine is effective, but can cervical cancer be eliminated?
Wednesday 13 March 2019, 04:00 AM

Nearly 90 per cent of cervical cancer deaths occur in low and middle-income countries
Last year, important modelling was done to assess what it would take to eradicate cervical cancer across wealthier and poorer nations alike. IMAC director Nikki Turner reports on the international call for action by stakeholders to eliminate cervical cancer
In May 2018, the WHO director-general made a global call for action to eliminate cervical cancer “as a public health problem” by reducing the incidenc
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