The National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP) restart is beginning with asking people who received a bowel screening test kit in the mail just before or during the COVID-19 Level 4 lock down to complete their kit and send it back
Cure Kids, New Zealand’s largest charitable funder of child health research, says its new $10 million funding commitment to address the effects of social deprivation on child health illnesses is critical, and that the need for it has been reinforced by a recent increase in rheumatic fever across New Zealand
A comprehensive review of the pathogenesis, diagnostic characteristics and available treatments for psoriasis was outlined in a previous How to Treat (New Zealand Doctor, 13 February 2019). This article expands on changes in therapies since then
Patients might be concerned about what they read and hear in the news regarding the use of renin–angiotensin system blockers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cardiologist Chris Ellis reviews recent research and current recommendations
Professor of general practice Ngaire Kerse discusses ways you can help your older patients make it through the pandemic with their mental health intact
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