John Pickering • Oct 18, 2018 •
Your chest hurts, you go to the hospital (good move), you get rushed through and a nurse takes some blood and measures the electrical activity of your heart. A doctor asks you some questions. While she does so, the blood is being tested – the results are back already! Yeah, they are negative and everything else is OK, it’s not a … Read More
Guest Author • Apr 03, 2018 •
Phoebe Roth, The Conversation This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Children with autism and their younger siblings are less likely to be fully vaccinated than neurotypical children and their siblings, new research from the US has found. Of children aged seven years and older, 94% of neurotypical children had … Read More
Guest Author • Jul 05, 2017 •
Lauren Monds, Research Fellow in Addiction Medicine, Research Officer in Forensic Psychology, University of Sydney and Celine van Golde, Associate Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Sydney Bob has arrived at the emergency department at 10am on a Tuesday after breaking several fingers slamming his hand in a car door. Bob is quite anxious; he … Read More
John Kerr • Apr 28, 2017 •
Māori, Pacific and Asian New Zealanders are more at risk of depression and anxiety disorders and yet are likely to be under-diagnosed, say the authors of a new study. Around one in six New Zealand adults are diagnosed with an anxiety or mood disorder in their lifetime. However some minorities are less likely to be diagnosed, despite appearing to have higher rates of … Read More
John Pickering • May 04, 2012 •
The doc said it was an STD. I laughed. Why? The answer my friends lies in the numbers. Of course the doctor wanted me to have an awkward conversation and prescribed some anti-bs. I, on the other hand, was very confident, so took a different line – “Do the test again,” I said. And the … Continue reading » … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Sep 26, 2011 •
Anyone entering New Zealand via the International arrivals terminal at Auckland may well have been welcomed by one of MAF Biosecurity’s sniffer dogs. These lovely animals are specially trained to search baggage, mail and cargo to locate undeclared or forgotten agricultural products. But one day you may be greeted by bees too. Honeybees can be trained to recognise particular … Read More
Jim McVeagh • Dec 12, 2009 •
It is always a tragedy when a young life is lost, but it is especially heart-wrenching when a young man dies from something you would not normally expect such a person to die from. Such is the case of Dean Carroll, the 22 year old who presented to an emergency department and left with a [...] Related posts: … Read More