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    Volume 34 Issue 6

    December 2011
  • December 2011

The prescribing cascade

The prescribing cascade
Article Lisa M Kalisch, Gillian E Caughey, Elizabeth E Roughead, Andrew L Gilbert
  • 1 December 2011
  • 7 min read

A prescribing cascade occurs when a new medicine is used to treat an adverse reaction to another drug in the mistaken belief that a new medical condition requiring treatment has developed.
Article

Appropriate primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: does this mean more or less statin use?

Jane Smith
  • 1 December 2011
  • 5 min read
Letters to the Editor

Hyperferritinaemia without positive HFE gene mutation

Chenault Doug Lee, Darrell H G Crawford, Katherine A Stuart, Andrew T St John
  • 1 December 2011
  • 2 min read
Feature

Medicines Safety Update

  • 1 December 2011
  • 8 min read
Letters to the Editor

Anaphylaxis wallchart

  • 1 December 2011
  • 1 min read
Letters to the Editor

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

  • 1 December 2011
  • 2 min read
Feature

Alkalinisation of local anaesthetic solutions

Kerry Brandis
  • 1 December 2011
  • 6 min read
Dental notes

Local anaesthetic solutions

Michael McCullough
  • 1 December 2011
  • 1 min read
Feature

Medicines Australia Code of Conduct: breaches

  • 1 December 2011
  • 1 min read
Letters to the Editor

Managing aggressive and violent patients

  • 1 December 2011
  • 2 min read
Article

New drugs for osteoporosis

Michael McCullough
  • 1 December 2011
  • 9 min read
Article

Deprescribing

David Le Couteur,, Danijela Gnjidic, Andrew McLachlan
  • 1 December 2011
  • 7 min read
Book review

Martindale: The complete drug reference. 37th ed.

Helen Trenerry
  • 1 December 2011
  • 1 min read
Top 10 drugs

Top 10 drugs

  • 1 December 2011
  • 2 min read
Abnormal laboratory results

Prostate specific antigen

Ken Sikaris
  • 1 December 2011
  • 6 min read
NEW DRUGS
Nomegestrol/oestradiol
  • 1 December 2011
  • 2 min read
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