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
Let’s choose our words more carefully
Wednesday 1 September 2021, 01:55 AM

Māori birth tools – Mātauranga spans Māori knowledge, culture, values and world view
University of Auckland senior lecturer Emily Parke and Dan Hikuroa make a call for people to choose their words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science, following a controversy ignited by a letter to the Listener signed by seven University of Auckland professors and claiming indigenous knowledge can advance scientific knowledge but is not itself science
Our point, instead, is that questions like “what is science?” or “is mātauranga science?” could be asking about any number of different ideas
Res, Twitter Corballis, Michael Corbellis mentioned in a tweet on 3 August by Newshub, defending his stance
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