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
What makes us healthy and how much do we know?
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What makes us healthy and how much do we know?
Wednesday 16 May 2018, 11:46 AM

Jogging isn't medicine but can be quite effective
Microbiologist Arlo Upton steps out of the lab to consider what really constitutes good health and the role Western medicine plays
As an atheist turned agnostic, I also wonder if the Western world’s departure from spiritualism has led to a societal lack of acceptance of sickness a
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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