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Your patient with type 2 diabetes is not reaching HbA1c target after lifestyle changes and treatment with metformin. So what next? Dr Rick Cutfield takes an expert look at the second-line treatment options available in New Zealand, including newly funded DPP-4 inhibitor vildagliptin.

From 12 December 2018, the Champix^® (varenicline tartrate) quit smoking aid will be replaced by Varenicline Pfizer (varenicline tartrate). 

Treating 23,5000 elective day surgery patients in rural New Zealand is just part of the story. Education, training and workshops to support rural doctors and nurses is leaving a much bigger footprint

Hypnosis answered GP Leanne Lawrence’s call for a better way to treat and prevent illness caused by stress, and now she’s on a mission to spread its health benefits far and wide

Frustrated by patients reporting they didn’t have access to information they needed, nurse Anna Mickell decided to find her own solution

New Zealand volunteers have quietly gone about the business of providing free, essential surgery for people in developing nations for 40 years with the international hospital ship charity Mercy Ships. 

Some of your patients just seem more susceptible to seasonal complaints than others. Could their bacterial balance be out of whack?