There is no doubt the health and disability sector is currently under significant pressure. This pressure, together with issues introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has been reflected in an unprecedented increase in complaints to the Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC).
Timely access to appropriate gender-affirming care reduces health inequities faced by transgender people, which could result in lower health costs for this population across individuals’ lifespans.
The quantification of islet autoantibodies is routine in the investigation of possible autoimmune diabetes. These antibodies are present in the majority of people with type 1 diabetes but are rarely encountered in other diabetes types.
At the end of January, 1922, I spent several days with Mons. Henri Spahlinger at Geneva. He went to no end of trouble in explaining to me the general lines on which he manufactures his serum and vaccine and, more especially, the clinical results he has obtained up to the present.