Many people travel to high-altitude destinations, meaning clinicians are often faced with questions about how to prevent and treat altitude illness. Update your knowledge with this New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine summary of updated evidence-based guidelines with comments by senior lecturer Jenny Visser – it outlines the best prophylactic regimens, diagnostic approaches and treatment protocols for acute altitude illness
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 133, No 1510
Editorial 1
SARS-CoV-2: a novel deadly virus in a globalised world
Meik Dilcher, Anja Werno, Lance C Jennings
Editorial 2
COVID-19: another infectious disease emerging at the animal-human interface
David R Murdoch, Nigel P French
Articles
Adolescent cannabis use continues its downward trend, New Zealand 2012–2018
Jude Ball, Niveditha Gurram, Greg Martin
Fasting prior to cardiac catheterisation: a single-centre observational study
Sheila Bacus, John Parsons, Jocelyne Benatar, Jithendra Somaratne, Mark Webster, Rachael Parke
Population level exposures associated with MRSA and ESBL-E. coli infection across district health boards in Aotearoa New Zealand: an ecological study
Matt Blakiston, Joshua Freeman
The role and functions of Community Health Councils in New Zealand’s health system: A document analysis
Gagan Gurung, Sarah Derrett, Robin Gauld
Intensive care unit utilisation post-oesophagectomy
Michael O’Grady, Rebecca Firth, Ross Roberts
The prevalence of microvascular complications in Waikato children and youth with type 1 diabetes has reduced 2003
Sukhbir K Sandhu, Vickie M Corbett, Lynne Chepulis, John Goldsmith, Priya Joseph, Sonya K Fraser, Joanna M McClintock, Ryan G Paul
Is the use of health services by older adults in New Zealand associated with their housing tenure?
Megan Pledger, Phoebe Dunn, Janet McDonald, Jacqueline Cumming, Kay Saville-Smith
Use of rehabilitation after hip and knee replacement in New Zealand: a national survey
Deborah L Snell, K Anne Sinnott Jerram, Jennifer A Dunn, C Jean Hsieh, Gerben DeJong, Gary J Hooper