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| Updated 21 Jan 2025 | Tags: clin pharm clinical pharmacology medications polypharmacy
Getting the best from your medicines At St George’s, we offer an outpatient service to see people who are taking large numbers of medicines (sometimes called polypharmacy). The clinic is run by clinical pharmacologists, doctors with a special interest in medicines. They make sure that people are taking the safest …
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Polypharmacy Service
| Updated 18 Mar 2025 | Tags: clinical pharmacology drug drugs medications Medicine pharmacogenomics polypharmacy
What is Polypharmacy? ‘Polypharmacy’ means taking multiple medicines or drugs. Taking multiple medicines is often required to help patients who have more than one illness. However, the risk of problems (including side effects) increases as the number of drugs increases. To reduce the risk of problems, people taking multiple medicines …
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