Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source
Health professionals should be lobbying for policies to reduce life-shortening junk food and create a more sustainable and healthy food industry, says global obesity expert Boyd Swinburn
Health professionals should be lobbying for policies to reduce life-shortening junk food and create a more sustainable and healthy food industry, says global obesity expert Boyd Swinburn
Primary care is getting funding support to employ up to 18 new nurse practitioners and 40 enrolled nurses in a $9.2 million contract to improve access to mental health and addiction support
Researchers want to study the risks posed to Aucklanders by the disturbance of the cancer-causing mineral erionite, which is present in some of the region’s rocks
The first paper to emerge from a community-directed research programme, a review of gout treatment, was published this week in the British Journal of General Practice Open
Reduction in smoking rates and steady, high rates of social engagement were associated with reaching the age of 100 free of common chronic diseases, a study finds
Living in a retirement village may decrease older people’s social isolation, but doesn’t necessarily make them less lonely, says University of Auckland academic Michal Boyd
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