Public Health Expert • Aug 26, 2019 •
Prof John Potter Achieving healthier diets that are also sustainable is increasingly in the news. In this blog, I look at the case for reducing the amount of meat in hospital meals and gently remind our dietitian colleagues not to let their dietary advice get out of date. Over-consumption of meat is costing us. Our health, our healthcare system, and … Read More
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 • Feb 13, 2018 •
Morten Wendelbo, Texas A&M University and Timothy Callaghan, Texas A&M University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. After a year in which President Donald Trump devoted much of his health policy attention to the repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act, Trump used part of his … Read More
SciBooks • Mar 30, 2014 •
by Heather Clendon REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital – A history by Linda Bryder Auckland University Press. RRP $49.95 When first asked to review this book, I thought it may be a dry and complex read and I, as a retired registered nurse, with no midwifery experience, would have little interest in … Read More
John Pickering • Apr 03, 2013 •
It ain’t pretty, it’s Acute Kidney Injury. This case was probably brought on by leptospirosis. This is the face of a well known New Zealander. Do you recognise him? He’s kindly lent his name to my research on AKI. I will reveal that name in future posts as I tell his remarkable story. Tagged: Acute … Continue reading » … Read More