Making decisions about what to do (and what not to do) to improve population health relies on good information. This holds as true for improving cancer control outcomes in Aotearoa as it does for anything else.
Unless contraindicated, the current guidelines for secondary prevention following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) recommend a statin for all patients.
Appendicectomy is the most-commonly performed emergency abdominal surgery worldwide. In New Zealand, more than 5,000 hospital admissions for appendicitis occur annually.
Graduating doctors have a regulatory obligation to ensure their medical decisions are based on ‘best evidence-based practice’.
Oesophageal manometry is the investigation of choice for assessment of motor function of the oesophagus.
Multiple myeloma is one of the most common haematological cancers worldwide1 and involves proliferation of plasma cells within the bone marrow. It primarily affects older adults.
New Zealand now has the Cancer Control Agency Te Aho o Te Kahu (the ‘Agency’), which is committed to improving cancer control in the country.
Mrs X is a 58-year-old New Zealand Māori woman on hormone replacement therapy (in the form of estradiol 2mg and norethisterone acetate 1mg daily) who presented with acute-on-chronic dyspnoea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea.
In research on youth tobacco use, the convention has been to group school deciles into the categories low-, medium- and high-decile. But we argue that this convention is no longer always appropriate.
We read with some concern the plans from the Ministry of Health to start COVID-19 vaccination of at-risk managed isolation facility (MIF), quarantine isolation facility (QIF) and frontline health workers “in the second quarter” of 2021.
A proposal to extend the term of the medical course was contained in a report made by the Medical and Dental Committee to the New Zealand University Senate on 21st January.