After a twenty-year period of relative stability in the health system, we are entering a period of very considerable change. These changes are driven, in part, by a clearly stated desire on the part of government for fairer health outcomes for Māori.
It’s hard to say anything about climate breakdown in 2021 that nature isn’t already saying through unprecedented heat waves, bush fires and flooding.
Around 4.2 million people worldwide die each year within 30 days of a surgical procedure—around a million more deaths than those due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
The COVID-19 pandemic has constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, with New Zealand having reported its first case of COVID-19 on 26 February 2020.
The Asian ethnic group is currently the third largest ethnic group, and also the most rapidly growing population group, in New Zealand. The population is projected to overtake Māori and Pacific population groups by 2038.
Asians and MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American and African) minority and migrant populations, collectively referred in this paper as “A/EM,” are New Zealand’s most rapidly growing population groups.
Testicular torsion is a surgical emergency that occurs in one in 4,000 males under the age of 25.
In New Zealand, stroke is the third leading of death and the primary cause of adult disability.
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study estimated in 2020 that in the previous year there were 6.7 million premature deaths globally from air pollution (ambient particulate matter and ambient ozone pollution).
The Climate Change Commission’s (the Commission’s) draft report (the Report) and recommendations provide a useful pathway towards achieving the New Zealand Government’s commitment of net zero emissions by 2050.
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells are an emerging modality of cancer therapy. CAR T-cells are patient lymphocytes that have been engineered to express a synthetic receptor, which enables them to target tumour cells.
New Zealand has a long history of failing to immunise and protect its children. The last national immunisation survey in 2005 showed overall immunisations rates of 77% at age two years.
Here we report a case of prolonged viral shedding in an individual infected in the August 2020 cluster, who tested positive again 150 days later.
This patient was referred to me by Dr. Barnett, C.M.G. J.M., a man aged 36, stated that about 1916, he went to Trentham Camp for military training. The weather was very hot, and after a week he reported sick with diarrhœa and vomiting, and was in bed for about a fortnight, and then went away on sick leave.