Latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association (Vol 130 No 1466): 1 December 2017

Editorial

New Zealand asthma guidelines updated 
Richard Beasley, Robert J Hancox

Articles

Breastfeeding indicators among a nationally representative multi-ethnic sample of New Zealand children 
Teresa Castro, Cameron Grant, Clare Wall, Michaela Welch, Emma Marks, Courtney Fleming, Juliana Teixeira, Dinusha Bandara, Sarah Berry, Susan Morton

Teaching quality improvement to medical students: over a decade of experience 
Michelle R Wise, Bridget Kool, Lynn Sadler, Roshini Peiris-John, Gillian Robb, Susan Wells

Deaf New Zealand sign language users’ access to healthcare 
Joanne Witko, Pauline Boyles, Kirsten Smiler, Rachel McKee

A New Zealand platform to enable genetic investigation of adverse drug reactions 
Simran DS Maggo, Eng Wee Chua, Paul Chin, Simone Cree, John Pearson, Matt Doogue, Martin A Kennedy

Acupuncture, ACC and the Medicines Act 
Daniel J Ryan

Exposure to respirable crystalline silica in the construction industry—do we have a problem? 
David McLean, Bill Glass, Andrea ‘t Mannetje, Jeroen Douwes

Viewpoint articles

Physician advocacy in Western medicine: a 21st century challenge 
Philip Bagshaw, Pauline Barnett

Asbestos—worker exposure, family disease 
William Ivan Glass, Helen Clayson

Research letter

Aggressive prostate cancer incidence in New Zealand—“united we fall, divided we stand” 
Venkatesh Vaidyanathan, Nishi Karunasinghe, Vetrivhel Krishnamurthy, Chi Hsiu-Juei Kao, Vijay Naidu, Radha Pallati, Alice Wang, Khanh Tran, Prasanna Kallingappa, Anower Jabed, Syed M Shahid, Jonathan Masters, Clare Wall, Ajit Narayanan, Lynnette R Ferguson

Guidelines

Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ child and adolescent asthma guidelines: a quick reference guide 
Innes Asher, David McNamara, Cheryl Davies, Teresa Demetriou, Theresa Fleming, Matire Harwood, Lorraine Hetaraka-Stevens, Tristram Ingham, John Kristiansen, Jim Reid, Debbie Rickard, Debbie Ryan