Aotearoa New Zealand succeeded in eliminating COVID-19, but this success has been challenged by poor management of cases at the border in mid-June 2020.
This edition of the Journal includes a commentary by Burrowes et al discussing the validity of the claim that e-cigarettes are 95% safer than smoking.
The End-of-Life Choice Bill has now passed its third reading in the New Zealand Parliament, which takes the final decision on this divisive legislation into the public arena as the End of Life Choice Act (EoLCA).
Lichen sclerosus is a chronic, pruritic skin condition with autoimmune aetiology and is relatively common, affecting approximately 1% of women.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of potentially preventable global health loss and demand for health and disability services for older people.
There is an increasing rate of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in New Zealand. Patients with IBD are known to have an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
The maternal-infant healthcare system is failing Māori, evident in the maternal and infant health inequities between Māori and non-Māori.
Asthma is a major public health problem in New Zealand with up to 20% of children and adults having asthma. The prevalence rates, particularly in Māori and Pacific adults, are among the highest in the world.
In late December 2019, a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan China resulted in the identification of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and a disease known as COVID-19.
It is projected that smoking will kill one billion people worldwide this century. Up to two-thirds of those who smoke will die prematurely due to smoking.
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is one of eight herpes viruses known to cause human infection. VZV infection has two distinct forms: primary varicella infection (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles).
We present a case of a 63-year-old man who presented with a left hemiparesis and severe hypertension. Computed tomography (CT) of the brain demonstrated areas of haemorrhage within the left basal ganglia and thalamus.
The risk of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) reactivation is increased with the use of tumour necrosis factor inhibition (TNFi) and often presents with extrapulmonary infection.
On Lunar New Year’s eve of 2020, an owner of two two-month-old puppies sought advice about her ill puppy with vomiting and mild loose stools.
As a final year medical student who has finished their psychiatry medical school training through the University of Auckland, I feel able to comment on the current teaching model, being aware that my perspective is but my own over a short space of time.
The wastage due to venereal disease was early recognised by the A.I.F., and a special hospital under the name of the 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital was organised and despatched to Egypt in 1915 and later moved to Bulford on the Salisbury Plains.