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Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Pope discusses the presentation and treatment of scabies, an intensely itchy but curable condition
1. Pope C (Tech Ed). Scabies. Healthcare Handbook 2023–2024. Auckland, NZ: The Health Media Ltd; 2023.
2. BPACnz. Scabies: diagnosis and management. 5 May 2022.
3. Thornley S, Marshall R, Jarrett P, et al. Scabies is strongly associated with acute rheumatic fever in a cohort study of Auckland children. J Paediatr Child Health 2018;54(6):625–32.
4. New Zealand Formulary. Scabies. NZF v140; 1 February 2024.
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...
