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Are you more like Ebenezer Scrooge or Bob Cratchit? Either way, you should think about finding joy this holiday season, writes Jo Scott-Jones. Not only does happiness improve your wellbeing but it also has flow-on effects to your professional life and to the lives of your patients
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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
