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While mental disorders often have multifactorial causes, the connection between diet and mental health may hold a significant key to their prevention and management, explains dietitian Sarah MacAvoy
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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
