Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the major causes of mortality, morbidity and inequities globally.
Re The value of frenotomy for ankyloglossia from a parental perspective.
New Zealand is following the UK and Australia by developing a national psychotherapy programme
The British Medical Association is not a political body, but must look to politicians for public health legislation.
Phenytoin is the current standard of care for second-line treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus after failure of first-line benzodiazepines
Body composition of New Zealand-born term babies differs by sex and ethnicity
Acquired brain injuries are any injury to the brain occurring after birth
Injury prevention is a topic of growing interest due to the potential to both reduce morbidity and reduce treatment costs.
Cardiac disease is becoming increasingly recognised in pregnancy,1 and is the highest cause of maternal death in Australia contributing to 14.3% of maternal mortality.
Routine pre-operative testing before elective surgery is common.
Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is an underdiagnosed aneuploidy characterised by an additional X chromosome and hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism.
When first introduced in the early 1940s, antibiotics proved so effective they quickly instilled general confidence in a ‘once-and-for-all solution’ for infectious diseases.