Background: Rheumatic fever (RF) and its sequela rheumatic heart disease (RHD) occur at unusually high levels in New Zealand. A disease of social deprivation, RF now almost exclusively affects Māori and Pacific peoples. ...

Background: Elective surgery is a major output of the health sector. For instance, in 2010/11 approximately 145,000 patients received elective surgery in New Zealand. This study uses data from the ‘Pathways to care and ...

Endophytes from marine plants have not been widely explored, and their bioactive compounds have not been well documented. In the present study, 64 endophytic fungi were isolated from 2 Malaysian marine plants (Pandanus ...

Prior to discharge from the neonatal unit it is clinically important to determine that an infant is stable from a respiratory perspective. Current practice is to monitor an infant using an apnoea monitor measuring breathing ...

Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis (TB), results in 1.4 million deaths annually. The escalating rate of active TB, due to co-infection with HIV and emergence of ...

Background and purpose: Understanding how people living with tetraplegia experience rehabilitation can help establish how those individuals make sense of their social realities during rehabilitation, and whether services ...

Indoor fungi are increasingly recognised to be associated with adverse respiratory health effects. However, how fungal exposure should be measured remains a complex issue. New Zealand has particularly high rates of respiratory ...

BACKGROUND:The 1918-19 influenza pandemic represents one of the worst human pandemics in recorded history. Given the severity of this pandemic, it could be described as a worstcase scenario for guiding future population-based ...