The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association (Vol 130, No 1465) 10 November 2017

Editorial

Metformin: a golden oldie

Helen Lunt, Ben Hudson

Articles

Dispensing patterns for antidiabetic agents in New Zealand: are the guidelines being followed?
Peter Murray, Hew Norris, Scott Metcalfe, Bryan Betty, Vanessa Young, Bronwyn Locke

A review of squamous cell vulvar cancers in Waikato Region, New Zealand
Prashanth Hari Dass, Marion Kuper-Hommel

Child morbidity as described by hospital admissions for primary school aged children in Tonga 2009–2013
Fiona Catherine Langridge, Sione Vaioleti Hufanga, Malakai Mahunui ‘Ofanoa, Toakase Fakakovikaetau, Teuila Mary Percival, Cameron Charles Grant

Metabolic monitoring in New Zealand district health board mental health services
Aimee Staveley, Ian Soosay, Anthony J O’Brien

Remembering the 1918 influenza pandemic: national survey of memorials and scope for enhancing educational value around pandemic preparedness
Nick Wilson, Catharine Ferguson, Geoffrey Rice, Michael G Baker, Ben Schrader, Christine Clement, George Thomson

Face-to-face versus telephone delivery of the Green Prescription for Māori and New Zealand Europeans with type-2 diabetes mellitus: influence on participation and health outcomes
Margaret Williams, Simeon Cairns, David Simmons, Elaine Rush

Whānau perceptions and experiences of acute rheumatic fever diagnosis for Māori in Northland, New Zealand
Anneka Anderson, Clair Mills, Kyle Eggleton

Audit on first seizure presentation to Taranaki Base Hospital: a secondary centre experience
Sean Lance, Rajesh Kumar

Viewpoint

Achieving health equity in Aotearoa: strengthening responsiveness to Māori in health research
Papaarangi Reid, Sarah-Jane Paine, Elana Curtis, Rhys Jones, Anneka Anderson, Esther Willing, Matire Harwood

Letters

Overwhelming support for smokefree cars that are carrying children—is the Government listening?
Richard Jaine, Richard Edwards, Jude Ball, Dalice Sim, George Thomson, R Beaglehole

The battle for better nutrition: the role of the escalating fruit and vegetable prices
Isaac Amoah, Carolyn Cairncross, Elaine Rush

New Zealand’s legal action against IQOS postponed, consultation with Big Tobacco follows
Marta Rychert

Antifungal susceptibility results of vaginal yeast isolates from New Zealand women, 2001–2015
Arthur Morris, Wendy McKinney, Karen Rogers, Sally Roberts, Joshua Freeman

Response to Dr Caleb Armstrong: proposed Waikato medical school
Ross Lawrenson, Derek Wright, Ayla Thomas