“We have been warned”—preparing now to prevent the next pandemic
‘COVID-19: Make it the Last Pandemic’ is the aspirational title of the recently released report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
For medication to be therapeutically effective, it is essential that patients adhere to them. Filling a prescription is the first critical step to establish medication adherence.
Ciguatera poisoning (CP) is the most common non-microbial food-borne illness in the world.
In New Zealand, participants in clinical trials that are deemed as being conducted for the benefit of the manufacturer are not eligible for Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) coverage if they suffer an injury from participating in the trial.
Contact with plants may cause plant dermatitis (phytodermatitis) due to allergic, irritant and photosensitive (phytophotodermatitis) mechanisms.
Malignant duodenal stenosis is a common presentation of inoperable metastatic pancreatic cancer. It can be observed in up to 15% of patients.
Aspergillus spp. are the most common cause of invasive mould infections globally.
Type 2 diabetes is a major public health issue globally and in New Zealand.
The last decade (2010–2019) has seen calls to action to improve the prescribing practice of junior doctors.
Hearing loss is a critical public health concern for older Māori. Based on the 2013 census, 32% of Māori aged 65 years and over reported experiencing hearing loss, compared with 28% of the total 65+ Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) population.
New Zealand’s health and disability system does not serve the country’s Indigenous population well.
The health of Māori is a taonga (something treasured and valuable).
In Budget 2021 published earlier this month, the Government made the welcome and long-awaited announcement that they will invest “up to $53 million to complete the design of and implement a new human papillomavirus (HPV) test” in 2023.
Forty years ago, in 1980, Professor Eru Pōmare published the first volume in the series Hauora – Māori Standards of Health.
New Zealand has very high rates of child maltreatment compared to other developed countries.
New Zealand faces a major challenge this year to use the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2 virus) vaccination programme to optimise protective immunity, in order protect our largely non-immune population.
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 13 December 2006.
The defamation trial that collapsed this month in the Auckland High Court was never about calling people names.
Paediatric functional constipation is a growing medical condition in New Zealand and worldwide, with a reported average prevalence of ~12% (range 0.5% to 32.2%).
Bowel cancer screening has been shown to be effective at preventing bowel cancer and improving survival from bowel cancers by diagnosing them at an earlier stage.
On 23 March 2020 the Abortion Legislation Act (AL) 2020 was passed into law with the result that abortion in New Zealand is no longer a crime.
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the best chance New Zealand has to protect our citizens’ health and will be a crucial activity for the health sector in 2021.
Three independent external reviews showed that between 2013 and 2018 the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) colonoscopy service delayed or denied colonoscopies to numerous symptomatic patients, with adverse clinical outcomes for some.
Pandemics affect everyone in society; however, their impact differs across individuals and groups and is heavily influenced by the social, economic and political determinants of health.
We write as the Māori Health Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), a collective of Māori physician and paediatrician Fellows and trainees.
A decade has passed since the then National-led government accepted the Māori Affairs Select Committee (MASC) Inquiry recommendation that New Zealand set a “longer-term goal of reducing smoking prevalence and tobacco availability to minimal levels, thereby [becoming] essentially a smokefree nation by 2025.”
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a preventable autoimmune response to group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection.
As described by Selak et al, systemic racism exists in New Zealand healthcare.
This is an open letter to all medical professionals in Aotearoa/New Zealand in response to a recently publicised incident at a medical conference held in late 2020, where racist and offensive remarks were made about Māori to an audience of medical professionals and an invited Māori delegate.
The purpose of my recent editorial was to inform New Zealand Medical Journal readers about the conclusion of the recent Whale Oil defamation case and its connection to some broader issues for the health of New Zealanders.
Professor Connor’s editorial piece of 26 March 2021 headed Why we should be interested in the Whale Oil defamation case does not fairly and accurately present to your readers the reality of the defamation case as it relates to the New Zealand Food & Grocery Council (NZFGC), and myself as its chief executive.
I recently spent a weekend in Martinborough and as many people do spent some time browsing the local bookshop.
Professor John Morton has not only written an intriguing catalogue of the Christchurch surgical scene in the latter part of the 20th century, but has also provided a well-considered philosophy for medical care.
In the time of Covid, some of the superheroes of the health sector are the public health physicians. This book outlines the active and varied personal and professional life of one New Zealand public health physician.
This a book that recounts the experience of the Auckland Starship’s paediatrician Dr Simon Rowley over his professional lifetime.
Paul Anderson is a New Zealander who trained in general surgery and works part-time in Australia and part-time in New Zealand.
As an editor you receive books for review, which are sent to suitable people following an email agreement to review.
When I found this book was returned from the initial reviewer without a review from the person who had “volunteered” to review it
