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This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week, an event meant to raise awareness of one of a growing threat to human health – antibiotic resistance. The World Health Organisation campaign the year is entitled: Change can’t wait. Our time with Antibiotics is running out. Capital and Coast DHB infectious diseases pharmacist Chris Little shares is views on the looming threat.
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...
