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 New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow
The New Zealand Medical Journal is out tomorrow

Editorial
Editorial One
COVID 19 – TBC
Editorial Two
Here we Go Again?
Geoffrey Rice
Sleep habits of intermediate-aged students: roles for the students, parents and educators
Kate Ford, Paul T Kelly, Rebecca Williamson, Michael Hlavac
Inherited Thrombophilia Testing Practice in a Large Tertiary Hospital in New Zealand: Implementation of a Choosing Wisely Protocol to Reduce Unnecessary Testing and Costs.
Myra Ruka, Helen Moore, Dennis O’Keefe
Trial removal of indwelling urinary catheters in stroke patients: a clinical audit at North Shore Hospital
Dushiyanthi Rasanathan, Xu Wang
On the use of a new monocular-indirect ophthalmoscope for retinal photography in a primary care setting.
Aqeeda Singh, Kirsten Cheyne, Graham Wilson, Mary Jane Sime, Sheng Chiong Hong
Admission to ICU “solely for possible organ donation”—audit of current New Zealand practice
Stephen Streat, Annette Flanagan, Joanne Ritchie
A persuasive approach to antimicrobial stewardship in Christchurch hospitals produced a sustained decrease in intravenous clarithromycin dosing and expenditure via a switch to azithromycin orally
Sharon J Gardiner, Sarah CL Metcalf, Anja Werno, Matthew P Doogue, Stephen T Chambers
VIEWPOINT x3
Neoliberalism: what it is; how it affects health; and what to do about it.
Pauline Barnett, Philip Bagshaw
A consensus statement on the use of angiotensin receptor blockers and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in relation to COVID-19 (corona virus disease 2019)
Hari Talreja, Jasmine Tan, Matt Dawes, Sharen Supershad, Kannaiyan Rabindranath, James Fisher, Sajed Valappil, Veronica van der Merwe, Lisa Wong, Walter van der Merwe, Julian Paton
Transition of the medical model of care at Ashburton hospital over 10 years: the perspective of rural generalists
Steve Withington, Sampsa Kiuru, Scott Wilson, John Lyons, Alexander Feberwee, Janine Lander
CASE REPORT
Bilateral vertebral artery dissection and cerebellar stroke: a rare complication of massage
William Birkett, Pourya Pouryahya, Alistair D Meyer
Letters x 3
Type A Aortic dissections: Challenges of atypical presentation in remote New Zealand
Varun J Sharma, Minesh Prakash, Francesco Pirone, Brian Chan, Zaw Lin
Educational interventions on Contraceptive methods in Adolescence: Face to Face or Virtual
Victor Moquillaza Alcántara, Angela Yauyo Puquio, Xiomara Marquez Lopez, Pamela Villegas Yaranga
Bullying and harassment in ophthalmology: a trainee survey
Neeranjali S Jain, Hannah K Gill, Helen Danesh-Meyer
Case Report
DRESS syndrome due to iodinated contrast medium
Yassar Alamri, Blake Hsu
100 Years Ago
April 1920
Presidential Address, 1920
By DR. H. LINDO FERGUSON