Over the past 40 years, primary healthcare policy in New Zealand has developed in a context of competing political, social, economic and professional forces.
Increasing numbers of people in New Zealand are admitted-to-die (die within three months of admission) in aged residential care (ARC) facilities, including those under 65 years.
Coeliac disease (CD), an autoimmune enteropathy characterised by a permanent intolerance to dietary gluten, is a common disorder affecting about 1% of the general
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are part of a spectrum of spondyloarthritis (SpA); chronic inflammatory conditions characterised by spinal
Worldwide, the use of antidepressant medications has been on the rise with growth in prescribing being observed in England,1 US,2 Canada3 and Australia.
Standing electric scooters have proliferated worldwide as a convenient mode of transport.
Hearing is at least as equally important as vision.
Gold-standard treatment for anaphylaxis in the community is with adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs).
The importance of infant feeding practices to an adult’s long-term health are of relevance to all health professionals, not just those involved with the care of the newborn infant and young child.
Q fever is a zoonotic infection characterised acutely by fever, severe headache, myalgia, pneumonia and hepatitis, or chronic infection manifesting as endocarditis.
A normally fit and well 43-year-old Chinese woman presented with a month’s history of dyspnoea on exertion and orthopnoea.
In 2050, 68% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas.
I am sitting here in Cleveland, Ohio as a Kiwi expat, troubled to the depths of my soul by what I have been reading about the ravages of bowel cancer in my homeland.
We propose with some temerity to write on this subject, but almost entirely from the medical point of view.