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
Health and the Govt: Dollops of dosh, reams of reviews, cures for social ills
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Health and the Govt: Dollops of dosh, reams of reviews, cures for social ills
Thursday 20 December 2018, 12:00 AM

A new focus has fallen on housing, whether healthy home standards, new state houses or new house builds
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Virginia McMillan provides a quick scan of recent developments in the health system and areas such as housing and income, where governments can also i