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Back in the 1980s, 30 per cent of New Zealanders smoked, and tobacco company sponsorship was the norm for everything from sports events to fashion shows. Public health campaigner Murray Laugesen, who was involved in major public health initiatives in India and New Zealand, has just released a memoir, My Life in Public Health. In the following two edited extracts, he outlines the circuitous route to curb tobacco-company influence and cut smoking rates
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
