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
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You've got your DNA kit: Now what can you do with it?
Friday 5 January 2018, 12:00 AM

A scientist works with DNA samples in a New Orleans laboratory in 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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