Issue Summary
Time for action, not words: the urgent rebuilding of New Zealand’s mental health workforce
There is overwhelming agreement that New Zealand faces a health workforce crisis, although one might argue that, like our workforce, the word “crisis” is getting worn out from overuse.
Bottle gourd toxicity: the bitter truth of being green-thumbed
A 66-year-old Vietnam-born New Zealander was admitted to General Medicine via the Emergency Department with a diarrhoeal illness following the ingestion of bottle gourd, which he had grown in his garden and cooked by stir-fry.
Does an elevated HbA1c of 41–49 mmol/mol during pregnancy associate with gestational diabetes mellitus?
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is an increasingly common condition during pregnancy, affecting 6–10% of all pregnancies in New Zealand and a disproportionate number of Māori and Pacific women.
Further Consideration of Endemic Goitre
In Christchurch two fairly large and typical schools were chosen—West Christchurch and Waltham. West Christchurch has attached to it a branch High School of nearly two hundred pupils, which enabled us to watch results over a longer period. Subsequently a large Timaru school, the Waimataitai school, was selected for further work with the employment of slightly different methods.
