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With intense competition from discounters entering the market, law changes enabling pharmacists to vaccinate for measles and prescribe melatonin to insomnia patients, 2019 has been a tumultuous year for pharmacy in New Zealand. But there is even greater change yet to come. Pharmacy Today reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle rounds up four impending legislative and regulatory changes expected for 2020
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...
