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21 hours ago · In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin. Unknown to them, the drug had been fortified with a nitazene compound called isotonitazene, a ...

Every week our team writes stories covering the changes taking place in the New Zealand health sector. The change is constant and we struggle at times to keep up with what people say will happen, what has happened, what might happen and what won't happen.

5 days ago · Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality

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4 days ago · Every week our team writes stories covering the changes taking place in the New Zealand health sector. The change is constant and we struggle at times to keep up with what people say will happen, what has happened, what might happen and what won't happen. This diary is a light touch attempt to keep us all on track

Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality

Sep 11, 2024 · Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and options for personalised care, appropriate investigation and treatment

Oct 8, 2024 · More needs to be done to raise awareness of the debilitating complications of shingles to protect older Kiwis and the immunocompromised, according to an infectious diseases expert. 1 Shingles is a viral infection caused by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), the same virus that causes chickenpox. 1 Almost all adults aged over 50 years may already have the virus that causes ...

Nov 6, 2024 · Cameron Schauer and Jason Robertson describe the symptoms, aetiology, subtypes and consequences of reflux. They also discuss the investigations used for diagnosis, investigating those with alarm features and evaluating success of treatment. Finally, they examine multimodal treatment, including lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical interventions