Two hundred people received lifesaving kidney, liver, lung, heart or pancreas transplants in 2023, according to the latest annual report by Organ Donation New Zealand (published online July 2024)
In sometimes impassioned testimony, Cynthia Sharpe described how more detailed information on an epilepsy drug swap painted a much more dangerous picture of the risks for patients
The chair of Pharmac’s Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee was grilled today over the body’s approach to assessing whether a controversial drug-funding switch should have taken place
In painstaking detail today, Pharmac outlined steps taken to manage a controversial anti-epilepsy drug-funding switch, while a UK epilepsy advocate offered the coronial inquest an alternative approach
Communication between people with epilepsy, their doctors and between agencies, around the potential risks of switching brands of anti-epileptic lamotrigine was examined at today’s epilepsy deaths inquest
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