Long patient stays and overcrowding at New Zealand emergency departments (EDs), a situation that appears to be worsening with time, may jeopardise timely access to quality care for acute conditions.
One mechanism to make progress towards reducing the enormous health burden from tobacco smoking is to expand smokefree public areas.
Minor surgical procedures place a significant cost burden on the New Zealand healthcare system because we are a country with one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
The purpose of this article is to examine the critical challenges for implementing the End of Life Choice Act 2019 (henceforth the EoLC Act or the Act) in New Zealand and to identify key future research needs.
Every day more than 250 New Zealanders are told that they have a skin cancer, and each week about ten die as a result. Urgent societal efforts are needed to curb this epidemic of the most prevalent cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand.
A 2,400g male infant was born to a multiparous New Zealand Māori woman in the upper North Island following spontaneous onset of labour at approximately 36 weeks gestation. The pregnancy was not recognised until 24 weeks gestation, resulting in incomplete antenatal screening.
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS) is an uncommon clinical syndrome characterised by painful ophthalmoplegia caused by an idiopathic granulomatous inflammatory process of the cavernous sinus.
As a retired GP, I am sad to realise that I am embarrassed by the apparent inability of our professional bodies to respond to the anti-vax doctors in our midst.
These cases make an interesting comparison, because, though very similar in symptoms and subjected to the same treatment, they were paradoxical, both in morbid anatomy and results.