Response to 'Returned medicines: waste or a wasted opportunity?'

The wasted opportunity of the election.

The second concern is that irradiation may be used to conceal bacterial contamination of spoilt food without inactivating toxins generated by the earlier bacterial contamination."0 But the same need for good hygiene applies equally to other food processes like canning and freezing. Thirdly, there could be a novel pattern of nutrient loss either from the radiation or because irradiated "fresh" f...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Teaching Scholarship: An Opportunity for Faculty Development or a Threat

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Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States

This work estimates the energy embedded in wasted food annually in the United States. We calculated the energy intensity of food production from agriculture, transportation, processing, food sales, storage, and preparation for 2007 as 8080 +/- 760 trillion BTU. In 1995 approximately 27% of edible food was wasted. Synthesizing these food loss figures with our estimate of energy consumption for d...

Medicines use reviews: a potential resource or lost opportunity for general practice?

BACKGROUND Patient non-adherence to medicines represents a significant waste of health resource and lost opportunity for health gain. Medicine management services are a key health policy strategy to encourage patients to take medicines as they are prescribed. One such service is the English Medicines Use Review (MUR) which is an NHS-funded community pharmacy service involving a patient-pharmaci...