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
COVID-19 vaccine passports not immune to health information abuse and misuse
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COVID-19 vaccine passports not immune to health information abuse and misuse
Wednesday 31 March 2021, 01:55 AM

Citizens must be told whether COVID-19 passports will be used for greater domestic freedoms or for international travel
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A good idea at first blush, passports that verify a person has been vaccinated against, or has recovered from, COVID-19 actually prove to be fraught with risk. Ephraim Wilson reports
As countries race to roll out their vaccination programmes, the question now is, when can we get back to normal?
Eighty-two per cent of the COVI
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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