In 2020, COVID-19 case numbers in many countries required intensive care units (ICUs) to adapt to treat critically ill patients when demand for beds exceeded staffed capacity.
The COVID-19 pandemic has stress-tested health systems around the world and in doing so has accentuated pre-existing health inequities.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in New Zealand women and its incidence has been increasing steadily: from 2,799 cases in 2009 to 3,572 in 2018 (a 28% increase).
The prognosis for patients diagnosed with early breast cancer is excellent, but the prognosis for patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is poor.
Strabismus is a common paediatric eye disorder occurring in 1–3% of children. However, it can present at any age.
Oesophageal carcinoma remains a leading cause of cancer death worldwide, with over 500,000 cases diagnosed in 2018.
Diabetes is being experienced at epidemic rates and is disproportionately affecting Indigenous peoples.
Phaeochromocytoma in pregnancy is rare, with an incidence of 0.007%, but carries high mortality of 40–50% if untreated.
Renowned as brilliant, kind, and humorous, Michael King helped to transform University College London’s division of psychiatry into an international centre of excellence.
Miss B. was undergoing treatment for dyspepsia. She had a septic lower molar tooth, which was extracted, under gas anæsthesia, by a competent exodontist. The tooth was a mere shell with a large amalgam filling.