The first trimester abortion journey Aotearoa: health practitioners' perspectives.

Aim: To gain insight into health practitioners' understanding of how people experience the first trimester abortion journey.

Methods: Qualitative interviews informed by phenomenology with health practitioners from a range of practice settings across Aotearoa New Zealand. Participants were recruited via a separate but related study.

Preliminary assessment of using mobile point-of-care human papillomavirus (HPV) testing with the option of immediate colposcopy in a rural area in a high-income country: a case study.

Aim: Cervical cancer is now preventable with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and HPV screening. However, structural health system barriers in rural areas can inhibit screening access. Inequitable access for rural Māori is exacerbated by social determinants and racism.

What does abortion law reform mean for primary care practitioners in New Zealand?

New Zealand achieved a major sexual reproductive health and rights milestone when abortion ceased to be a crime. Introduction of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 has significantly changed the way abortion care can be provided in New Zealand, with the potential to improve access, reduce inequities and transform the abortion experience for those people who choose to end their pregnancy. The primary care sector stands to be a key player in the provision of first-trimester abortion care.

Student use of common online resources in a multi-campus medical school.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Multi-campus medical schools can differ in medical curriculum delivery due to location specific factors, creating different learning contexts.

Development and application of a LC-MS/MS assay for simultaneous analysis of 25-hydroxyvitamin-D and 3-epi-25-hydroxyvitamin-D metabolites in canine serum.

Hypovitaminosis D and hypervitaminosis D are well recognised disorders in dogs. Hypovitaminosis D can occur following consumption of a diet inadequately supplemented with vitamin D or as a sequelae of severe intestinal disease. Hypervitaminosis D may occur as a result of consuming proprietary dog foods over-supplemented with vitamin D or through ingestion of vitamin D containing medicinal products or rodenticides.

A survey of the views and practices of abortion of the New Zealand Fellows and trainees of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Background: Abortion is a common procedure in New Zealand (NZ). Currently, it is only legal when two certifying consultants agree that the person seeking an abortion meets the statutory grounds outlined in Section 187A of the NZ Crimes Act (1961). The Crimes Act also states that one-half of certifying consultants must be practising obstetricians/gynaecologists.

Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PhoP-phoQ in resistance to antimicrobial cationic peptides and aminoglycosides.

Resistance to the polycationic antibiotic polymyxin B and expression of the outer-membrane protein OprH in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa both involve the PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulatory system. The genes for this system form an operon with oprH, oprH-phoP-phoQ, that responds to Mg(2+) starvation and PhoP levels. In this study, the Mg(2+)-regulated promoter for this operon was mapped upstream of oprH by primer-extension experiments.