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
The chilling effect - Silencing healthy debate
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The chilling effect - Silencing healthy debate
Wednesday 3 December 2014, 09:00 AM

The use of guerrilla style PR tactics to stop doctors, nurses and public health researchers speaking publicly on issues is not new; it's just getting meaner. Virginia McMillan talks to veterans of the "public stoush" who urge their colleagues not to remain silent when it is important to speak up
Back when mobile surgical services were just a twinkle in urologist Stu Gowland's eye, he was weathering one of the biggest stoushes in New Zealand he