Occupational health expert David McBride describes a risk assessment framework for identifying and protecting staff potentially vulnerable to COVID-19, which has been developed during an under-resourced era in occupational medicine
Occupational health expert David McBride looks at the association between occupation and rheumatoid arthritis, and highlights the lung as an initial site of inflammation and autoimmunity
Occupational health expert David McBride attempts to pin down the source of increased lead levels found recently in the water supply of some coastal Otago settlements, and discusses the effects lead exposure may have on children
Occupational health expert David McBride examines our early success in eliminating COVID-19 from New Zealand and how human behaviour will determine our future
I am not much good at geology, and if you told me six months ago that a toxic mineral forms part of the landscape (and subterranean landscape) in Auckland, I would have been blindsided
Occupational health expert David McBride discusses the risks associated with erionite, which has been described as one of the most toxic minerals on earth – and it’s right here in New Zealand
Coming, as I do, from Northern Ireland, and going to medical school in Belfast during the early 1970s, life was not exactly normal, but we normalised it
Occupational health expert David McBride discusses the hazards of COVID-19 for healthcare workers and the roles of personal protective equipment and hand hygiene in managing this risk
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