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Specialist GP Jo Scott-Jones outlines the risk factors, signs, symptoms and investigations for lung cancer, to aid early diagnosis
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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
