In Budget 2021 published earlier this month, the Government made the welcome and long-awaited announcement that they will invest “up to $53 million to complete the design of and implement a new human papillomavirus (HPV) test” in 2023.
Forty years ago, in 1980, Professor Eru Pōmare published the first volume in the series Hauora – Māori Standards of Health.
There are pervasive health disparities between Māori and non-Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, and frailty is no exception.
Aotearoa New Zealand has been following an elimination strategy in its fight against COVID-19, with the aim of saving lives and protecting our health services.
The health of Māori is a taonga (something treasured and valuable).
New Zealand’s health and disability system does not serve the country’s Indigenous population well.
Bowel cancer screening has been shown to be effective at preventing bowel cancer and improving survival from bowel cancers by diagnosing them at an earlier stage.
Mycobacterium mantenii (M. mantenii) is a slow-growing non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) species first described as a human pathogen in 2009.
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a preventable autoimmune response to group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection.
As described by Selak et al, systemic racism exists in New Zealand healthcare.
Barry Malcolm Colls was Auckland born and bred and studied medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, graduating MBChB (Otago) in 1955.
By Major G. H. ROBERTSON, M.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., Officer in Charge of Medical Division, Trentham Military Hospital.