One of the more positive outcomes from the pandemic has been an accelerated shift towards a new paradigm in the focus and delivery of mental health care
This article, written by Cathy Stephenson, Alex Ker and Rachel Johnson, covers the diverse aspects of providing gender-affirming healthcare for Aotearoa’s transgender and non-binary people, including the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy, as well as the general principles behind this rapidly evolving area of medicine
A 66-year-old woman comes for her annual “well woman” check-up. She has always been active and well, with no significant past medical history except for a dyslipidaemia
Cancers of the upper digestive tract are closely related to dietary and environmental factors. Both oesophageal and gastric cancer have wide geographic variation, and there have been significant changes in incidence within countries
A 12-year-old boy has undergone a routine appendectomy and woken up with unilateral hearing loss, in a landmark report published to raise awareness of the unusual complication.
Urinary tract infection is a common illness in children, but the common adult symptoms of dysuria, urgency and frequency are usually not easily elicited or reliable in children who are not toilet-trained
The Immunisation Handbook is republished every three to four years, coinciding with Pharmac’s renewal of vaccine supply contracts and associated changes to the National Immunisation Schedule
I gained a new patient recently called Hugh. He certainly looks much younger than his 65 years but was recently diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer
The previous instalment of this “From the lab” series covered two commonly used equations for estimating glomerular filtration rate in adults – the Cockcroft-Gault formula (calculation of creatinine clearance) and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study algorithm (calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate)
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management