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Pharmacist Mena Alsaffar owns Turuki Pharmacy Panmure and Papakura Marae Pharmacy in Auckland alongside her husband, Jaffer Al-Jumaily. She arrived in New Zealand at age four, after emigrating from Iraq with her parents Ahmed and Eman, who are also pharmacists
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...
