In this editorial, we consider the implications of the New Zealand Government’s shift away from a national COVID-19 elimination strategy. This is a critical stage in managing the pandemic.
In response to level 4 “lockdown” from 25 March 2020, all areas of the health sector made changes to prepare for a potential influx of unwell COVID-19 patients, as had been seen overseas.
Māori health inequities result from systematic failures in the provision of healthcare by the public health system and historical structural failures that have led to the inequitable distribution of the social determinants of wellbeing for Māori compared to non-Māori.
Osteoarthritis is the commonest form of arthritis. It causes debilitating pain, impairment of function, significant physical disability and consequences to mental health.
In New Zealand, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with over 3,500 registrations and more than 600 deaths each year.
Frailty is a syndrome of reduced physiological reserve that increases the risk of adverse health outcomes, such as hospitalisation, increasing dependency, residential care placement and death.
People of Asian ethnicity are the third largest ethnic group in New Zealand, and addressing their health is increasingly important.
A 56-year-old woman presented with a two-week history of atraumatic left thigh pain and swelling.
Pyroglutamic acidosis is a rare and underdiagnosed high anion gap metabolic acidosis (HAGMA) caused by accumulation of 5-oxoproline associated with commonly used medications such as paracetamol and antibiotics.
During the last two or three years, having had several opportunities of observing the surprisingly good results which follow an injection of pituitrin and adrenalin in attacks of asthma, I was struck by the possibility of similar happy results in the treatment of acute œdema if the lungs—in the pre-œdema stages of which the symptoms are almost identical with these of an acute attack of cardiac or renal asthma.
Mark was born in Nelson, on 3 November 1952, to parents, Dr John Davis and Gladys Davis.