Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
NOTHING UNDER FOUR STARS
Wednesday 26 February 2025, 12:00 AM

Ethel Cain’s 2022 offering involves painful storytelling set to evocative music and is more accessible than her latest album [Image: WNXP Nashville on Youtube]
We’re off and racing through 2025 already, but I’m looking backwards. As far as 2022 and 2023. Not that these were amazing years by any metric, but one of my favourite new artists realised their masterpiece and one of my favourite old artists came back from the dead
Preacher’s Daughter, Ethel Cain
Daughters of Cain Records, 2022
Hitting me personally on many levels is Ethel Cain’s play for glory, 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter. Such, Preacher’s Daughter Ethel Cain, Preacher’s Daughter Ethel Cain