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MedicinesTalk No. 16 Summer 2005 edition MedicinesTalk No. 16 Summer 2005 edition
MedicinesTalk Summer 2005, contains articles on Yolngu stories, Aboriginal health workers building skills, protecting children and measuring children's medicines, and MedicinesTalk questionnaire results.
Written by consumers for consumers, MedicinesTalk is a free quarterly newsletter that gives you reliable, accurate information and useful hints on managing your medicines.
| Title | Why read this |
|---|---|
| Yolngu stories make sense of medicines | The ‘Sharing True Stories about Medicines’ project involves working with a remote aboriginal communities to develop culturally appropriate stories to learn about their medicines. |
| Aboriginal Health Workers build skills | The NACHHO project in Broome, WA, provided training for local Aboriginal health workers in the quality use of medicines, including chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension which are important in their communities. |
| Keep medicines out of reach of children | Tips for avoiding accidental poisoning of children including safely storing medicines out of reach at all times. |
| Measuring children’s medicines | What you should and shouldn't do when it comes to measuring children's medicines. |
| Medicines and young children | Learn about the differences in giving medicines to children, and the need for careful selection of prescribed, over-the-counter and complementary medicines. |
| MedicinesTalk hits the mark | MedicinesTalk reader survey showed that MedicinesTalk has 'hit the mark', with favourable responses on the value, interest and readability of the articles, along with suggestions for future issues. |
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