Laura with her mum Michelle[/caption]
Nicolette Ellis MPS[/caption]
For those at later stages of their lives, it’s important to avoid social isolation and to keep the brain active, she adds. 
Medicine administration frustrations can be avoided when dose time changes can be suggested. 
Diagnosis and differential diagnosis 
Gonococcal culture
Prevention 
Dr Erica Stewart, Centenary Institute[/caption]
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