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Sione comes to your pharmacy in his lunch break and asks for something for his cough. He says he has had it for about three months, it is often worse at night, and he also feels a bit tight in the chest. His sentences are reasonably clipped, and he sounds a bit short of breath as he tells you he has only recently left school and started work at the local sawmill.
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...
