3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (66+ words) NZDoctor Registered pharmacist Lucy Broughton discusses antidepressant withdrawal, including the symptoms experienced, how to distinguish it from relapse, why it happens and how to prevent it. Flexible tapering strategies are outlined as key to successful antidepressant discontinuation in primary care…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (738+ words) Tom Baker is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau and Salene Schloffel-Armstrong is a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau After nearly a decade…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (566+ words) Retirement from general practice can be surprisingly quiet. Alison Fawdry describes an event designed to celebrate long-serving doctors alongside the profession’s newest Fellows What do you get when you put 65 GPs and guests in a room, add nine retiring doctors,…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (730+ words) More than 500 New Zealanders were waiting for a corneal transplant to restore their vision at the end of last year, yet just 115 people donated eye tissue in 2025 – a shortfall so significant that eye specialists regularly have to source donated corneas…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (279+ words) The TIAKI podcast launches today: a six-episode series on the health and wellbeing of Māori who leave prisons, and on what an Aotearoa New Zealand without the harms of prisons could look like. The podcast is hosted by Associate Professor…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (223+ words) NZDoctor Website intended for a New Zealand health professional readership Beyond ‘diabetes medicines’: How Pharmac decision missed the mark On 1 September new criteria take effect for access to four funded medicines for people with type 2 diabetes. Prescribing pharmacist Leanne Te…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (778+ words) Grant Davidson is not impressed by the suggestion of using proximity to a McDonald’s to define rurality Recently I have noted social media posts from WellSouth chief exeuctive Andrew Swanson-Dobbs proposing a “McDonald’s index of rural health”; the contention being…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (166+ words) nzdoctor.co.nz Website intended for a New Zealand health professional readership Learning to live with death and what we leave behind A lifetime of encounters with death has taught Lucy O’Hagan not to fear dying, but to think deeply…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (968+ words) Layla Bailey-McDowell of RNZ The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown breached Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles in its provision of disability services for tāngata whaikaha Māori, saying their voices have been "made invisible" within the system. Hauwhaikaha - The Disability…...