Robert Hickson • Oct 04, 2020 •
News reports indicate that a range of therapies are being tried on the President of the United States to treat his SARS-CoV-2 infection. Two of these involve treatments that have not yet completed clinical trials. One was a cocktail of two neutralising antibodies. The second is an anti-viral drug. Monoclonal antibodies The president was initially given a single treatment … Read More
Eric Crampton • Mar 16, 2018 •
E-cigarettes in New Zealand are in a really interesting spot right now. Last year, the then National-government signalled that a new legal regime for vaping was on its way. At the time, importation of nicotine-containing vaping liquids for personal consumption was allowed, but retail sale within New Zealand was not. That wasn’t to say it didn’t happen, but you kinda … Read More
Guest Author • Feb 09, 2018 •
J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase’s announcement that they will create an independent company to offer health care to their employees “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” sent a shock through the health care industry, with … Read More
Laura Goodall • Jul 06, 2016 •
Dr Lance O’Sullivan was kicked out of school for disruptive behaviour. Twice. Now the award-winning Māori doctor has created another kind of disruption – an ambitious new health app that aims to speed up diagnosis and treatment times for common childhood illnesses. Māori innovation is skyrocketing. The June 2016 statistics say it all: Māori innovation reached almost 65 percent … Read More
Michael Edmonds • May 14, 2012 •
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has distanced itself from “Doctors for the Family”, a group of around 150 doctors who have written to the Australian Senate Inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010 claiming that same sex marriage is a health risk and that children of same sex couples were disadvantaged (go here for an ABC report on this topic). The … Read More