This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Officials admit ‘fail’ on communication of medicines class changes
Friday 29 March 2019, 10:00 AM
When Gees Linctus and dextromethorphan-containing medicines were reclassified on 25 February, no one heard about it. Unaware of the change, pharmacies and supermarkets blithely carried on selling the products for up to a week before they found out this was illegal. Now angry pharmacists are asking why they didn’t hear about the change on time. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
When Auckland pharmacist Sara Dougherty came into work at Unichem Milford in Auckland on Thursday, 28 February, she had no idea one little email in th