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Jenny Song is a senior nursing academic at Wintec. She is working on her PhD looking at ageing well and is concerned older people are easily overlooked in the COVID response
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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
