Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
Officials admit ‘fail’ on communication of medicines class changes
Friday 29 March 2019, 10:00 AM
When Gees Linctus and dextromethorphan-containing medicines were reclassified on 25 February, no one heard about it. Unaware of the change, pharmacies and supermarkets blithely carried on selling the products for up to a week before they found out this was illegal. Now angry pharmacists are asking why they didn’t hear about the change on time. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
When Auckland pharmacist Sara Dougherty came into work at Unichem Milford in Auckland on Thursday, 28 February, she had no idea one little email in th