The New Zealand Medical Journal is out now

Editorials

    Rural Matters

Peter Crampton, Jo Baxter
 

    Gout in Aotearoa New Zealand: the equity crisis continues in plain sight

Nicola Dalbeth, Tony Dowell, Catherine Gerard, Peter Gow, Gary Jackson, Carl Shuker, Leanne Te Karu
 
 
Articles
 

    A prospective audit of the 10-year outcomes from low dose-rate brachytherapy for early stage prostate cancer

David S Lamb, Lynne Greig, Grant Russell, John N Nacey, Kim Broome, Mohua Jain, Judith Murray, Peter J Lamb, Lisa Woods
 

    Privacy protection for health information research in New Zealand district health boards

Vithya Yogarajan, Michael Mayo, Bernhard Pfahringer
 

    Te Wero tonu—the challenge continues: Māori access to medicines 2006/07–2012/13 update

Scott Metcalfe, Kebede Beyene, Jude Urlich, Rhys Jones, Catherine Proffitt, Jeff Harrison, Ātene Andrews
 

    Incidence of motor neurone disease within MidCentral Region, New Zealand

Alexandra Caulfield, Pietro Cariga 
 

    Antidepressant prescribing in New Zealand between 2008 and 2015

Sam Wilkinson, Roger T Mulder
 

    Distress in informal carers of the elderly in New Zealand

Nicola Swain
 
 
Viewpoint

1.       Proposal for a National Interprofessional School of Rural Health
Garry H Nixon, Ngaire M Kerse, Warwick Bagg, Margot A Skinner, Peter J Larmer, Peter Crampton
 
 
2.       Mana Tū: a whānau ora approach to type 2 diabetes
Matire Harwood, Taria Tane, Laura Broome, Peter Carswell, Vanessa Selak, Jennifer Reid, Phil Light, Tereki Stewart
 
 
Clinical Correspondence

Surgical management of self-inflicted facial gunshot wounds
Katie Goad, Thasvir Singh
 
 
Letters

A population-based study of the diabetes paradox in stress cardiomyopathy
George M Watson, Christina W Chan, Kit Doudney, Paul G Bridgman