Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

New Zealand Medical Journal, Vol 131, No 1486, 30 November 2018
Editorial
Six things you need to know about pain
Nicola Swain, Louise Parr-Brownlie, Bronwyn Lennox Thompson, Ben Darlow, Ram Mani, David Baxter
Articles
Neonatal conjunctivitis in the New Zealand Midland region,
Samuel Newlands, John Dickson, John Pearson, Chris Mansell, Graham Wilson
A MAP to mental health: the process of creating a collaborative advance preferences instrument
Jessie Lenagh-Glue, Anthony O’Brien, John Dawson, Katey Thom, Johnnie Potiki, Heather Casey, Paul Glue
Hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma presenting at an advanced stage: is it preventable?
Viewpoint
Creaky voice or extreme vocal fry in young women
Jeremy Hornibrook, Tika Ormond, Margaret Maclagan
Clinical Correspondence
Chronic red eye—think outside the eye
Louis S Han, Rebecca Stack
Research Letters
LV epicardial lead placement at time of cardiac surgery: useful for some—but not all
Tom Kai Ming Wang, Andrew Martin, Khang-Li Looi, Nigel Lever
The first analytic evidence for socio-economic gradients in 1918 pandemic influenza mortality rates for New Zealand
Nick Wilson, Osman D Mansoor, Michael G Baker
Letter
Update from the New Zealand Familial GI Cancer Service 2017
Christopher J Wakeman, Teresa Chalmers-Watson, John Keating, Ben Griffiths, Maggie Ow, Rachael Bergman, Susan Parry