Foreign affairs minister Winston Peters announced today that New Zealand will contribute a further NZ$7 million to improve newborn mortality rates in the Pacific.
The Government has set ten year targets for reducing child poverty and hardship that will transform children’s lives and establish New Zealand as having one of the lowest rates of child poverty in the world
The Canterbury District Health Board’s Community and Public Health team has issued a measles warning after a man who attended Christchurch Hospital’s Emergency Department has since been confirmed as having the measles virus
This month sees a change to the targeted diseases of the Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme; here we review the new programme, its history, how it operates and how GPs can best make use of it
This month sees a change to the targeted diseases of the Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme; here we review the new programme, its history, how it operates and how GPs can best make use of it
Complementary hormone therapy; an end to measles; “extra heart beats”; treatment plans from Venice, carbon monoxide poisoning and more clinical stories in the latest issue of New Zealand Doctor
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management