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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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