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CASSIE BRINGS IN her teenage son, Zac, and asks for something for his feet. She says his feet and his shoes are extremely smelly, and the skin between his toes is white, cracked and soggy. He plays a lot of water polo and soccer, and she wonders if it’s something he picked up from the changing rooms.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
