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
Give me wheat beer over white wine
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Give me wheat beer over white wine
Sunday 20 December 2020, 01:00 AM

That cloudy pint to the right is a wheat beer
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From Fiona Cassie: I could not resist another plug for my selfless campaign to see the country drink more wheat beer. Try it as a summer tipple...
The cliché has it that as a white, middle class, middle-aged woman my tipple of choice will be a dry white wine.
The other cliché is that me and my
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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