Issue Summary
A new opportunity for a fairer, more equitable approach to alcohol supply—minus the marketing
A key issue the review must traverse is how can we ensure safe and responsible supply of alcohol while reducing the inequities in wellbeing and health to which alcohol significantly contributes.
District health board engagement with the living wage movement: evidence from official information requests
This paper makes the case for major health employers to become living wage employers. It then presents primary data examining to what extent DHBs engaged with the living wage campaign.
Challenges in the treatment of a stingray injury: a rare case report in a rural New Zealand hospital
Though stingrays are commonly found in the vast Australasian waters, severe injuries are rare. Ray venom remains a poorly understood phenomenon, and the treatment of barb injuries can be challenging due to envenomation obscuring the clinical picture, as well as delayed presentations with bacterial infections.
A case of macroenzyme aspartate aminotransferase (macro-AST) in a patient with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis
Although elevations in AST may indicate hepatic disease, AST elevations are not as liver specific as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevations, and they are also associated with myositis, rhabdomyolysis, acute myocardial infarction or haemolysis.
Face masks and falls
Over the past 20 months, many New Zealanders have been wearing face masks to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. Masks are thought to be beneficial in terms of reducing the chance of transmitting respiratory borne viruses including COVID-19.
Provision for Unmarried Maternity Cases
In every way, it was submitted, the condition of the “illegitimate” was made too hard, and that, however moralists might view the question, it was not for the State to penalise or victimise its members who had erred against social law in complying, perhaps with natural law.
