Details of a hastily prepared programme to get oral COVID-19 antivirals to as many people as quickly as possible are still being finalised ahead of a Thursday start
Departing director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield – honoured today by the RNZCGP – says the health sector has given his team “an awful lot of forgiveness”
The latest Omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn means more people will develop long COVID
With the clear lessons from the recent Covid PCR testing capacity findings still fresh in the air it seems completely at odds not to have a quick efficient truly national Covid serology surveillance rollout underway by now
Skin cancer service MoleMap will launch new surgical facilities in its network of clinics so the cancerous skin lesions detected can be surgically removed immediately
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