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This article is a summary of the work completed to date by the Environmental Pharmacy Initiative Committee, with an explanation of why the healthcare impact on climate change is important and ways we can contribute towards sustainable pharmacy
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Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
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