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With four COVID-19 cases confirmed in New Zealand at the time of going to print, pharmacists’ reactions vary from feeling unprepared to having a fully fleshed out pandemic response plan. Reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle investigates pharmacists’ response, supply lines for equipment and advice from health officials
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...
