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SHYLA HAS BEEN COLLECTING her oral contraceptive from your pharmacy for the past four years, but this time, she tells you it will be her last prescription as she and her husband are going to try for a baby. She asks you how she can tell when she has ovulated as she has heard this is the best time to try to conceive.
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...
