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University of Auckland pharmacy law lecturer Sanya Ram explores some of the common questions that arise when patients are travelling with medicines and offers some practical tips to help patients prepare in advance of travel
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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
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