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Changes to eight health-related laws mean more health practitioners can issue sick or injury certificates – a job previously only doctors have been considered qualified to do. Pharmacists are not covered by the changes, but they will be expected to take on new responsibilities in future. Miranda Cook reports
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...
