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Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Pope looks at heartburn, including its causes, symptoms and treatment, as well as how to distinguish it from a heart attack
1. Pope C (Tech Ed). Indigestion, Heartburn and Gastritis. Healthcare Handbook 2023–2024. Auckland, NZ: The Health Media Ltd; 2023.
2. New Zealand Formulary. 1.1 Dyspepsia and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. NZF v138; 1 Dec 2023.
3. Mayo Clinic. Heartburn. 13 May 2022.
4. BPACnz. Stopping proton pump inhibitors in older people. 24 January 2019.
5. Medsafe. Medicines containing ranitidine and a potential impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). 26 January 2021.
6. Pharmac. H2 Antagonists. Community Schedule; December 2023.
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...
