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
Another year, another lockdown: St Lukes Medical Pharmacy
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Another year, another lockdown: St Lukes Medical Pharmacy
Thursday 7 October 2021, 09:49 AM
St Lukes Medical Pharmacy pharmacist Muhammad Hussaini says script numbers are down by 60-70 per cent and retail is "completely dead"
Eighteen months after New Zealand's first nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown, Pharmacy Today reporters Jonathan Chilton-Towle and Anna Lee revisited, in a socially distanced way, pharmacy staff they interviewed last year to see how a year and a half has changed the pandemic landscape
‘We’ve got to stop doing lockdowns’, In the past year and a half, St Lukes Medical Pharmacy has lost most of its patients, prescriptions and retail sales, and has been forced to make six