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The article focuses on the risks older patients face in the emergency department (ED) when spending a night waiting for ward admission, leading to higher in-hospital mortality, longer lengths of stay, and increased adverse events. Topics include the impact of ED crowding, the association between overnight stays and mortality risk, and the need for further research on prioritizing elderly patients for transfer to the ward or improving environmental conditions in the ED.

The article reflects on the progress made in addressing the reproductive health inequities faced by Māori women in New Zealand over the past five years. It highlights various studies that have documented the disparities and challenges faced by Māori women in terms of pregnancy outcomes, unintended pregnancies, postpartum anemia, and cervical disease.

In the article, the authors discuss the anti-racism movements in the emergency departments of hospitals in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Other topics include racism as a social determinant of health, the experiences of minority groups like people of colour (POC) and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people, and the efforts by health organisations to campaign for racial justice.

The article announces a change in the editorship of ANZJOG (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) with Dr. Scott White taking over as the Editor-in-Chief. The outgoing editor reflects on their time as the editor, expressing gratitude for the collaboration of associate editors and peer reviewers, discussing topics covered in recent issues, and highlighting the need for ongoing efforts to address reproductive health inequities among Indigenous populations in Australia.

The article presents the discussion on news briefs. Topics include provide specialist decision making, advice and monitoring where it might otherwise not be available is a major advantage of virtual emergency care; and time limitations, lack of resources, education and support are barriers to reporting suspected child abuse.

An editorial is presented on World Health Assembly Resolution. Emergency Care (EC) systems are poorly developed in a majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and there is a significant unmet need for acute care. To facilitate global EC capacity development, the World Health Organization (WHO) has devised a framework to describe the essential functions of EC systems.

An editorial is presented on the education in and for the rural and remote workforce which is critical to ensuring that people living in those regions have equitable access to sustainable high-quality health care. The article discusses that the accumulating evidence for rural and remote workforce retention emphasizes the importance of locally available educational options for initial training and ongoing career pathway opportunities.

The authors discuss the formation of the Australian and New Zealand Vasculitis Society to improve the care of patients with vasculitis in both countries. Topics mentioned include epidemiological studies of vasculitis in the two countries that focused on giant cell arteritis and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated vasculitis (AAV), limited outcome data for Australian and New Zealand patients with vasculitis, and the drivers of mortality identified in European trials of AAV.

The author discusses updates on issues related to the marketing of drugs to society in clinical trials. Topics mentioned include the drug acquisition component of the cost of pharmaceutical clinical trials, a concept of penetration pricing developed by economist Joel Dean, and the rising costs of anti-cancer drugs in Australia.

The author discusses developments with the "Internal Medicine Journal" in 2017. He tackles a meeting of the editorial board in Sydney, New South Wales regarding the journal's status and its future, changes in the editorial board, the expansion of sources of submissions to the journal, and the presence of the journal on the Internet.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including early steroids in traumatic haemorrhagic shock, acute superior mesenteric vessel ischaemia, and rural and remote emergency medicine.

An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented, including a 2020 survey which examined nephrology training experience and workforce perspectives in Australia and New Zealand, another on a survey of 105 consultant nephrologists which suggested that the pattern of nephrology training has not changed significantly over the past two decades, and one on a study which highlighted the gaps in current nephrology training and subsequent career choices.

The article highlights on several topics which discusses that Irukandji Syndrome (IS) is an extremely painful condition that cau ses a significant catecholamine surge and sympathetic autonomic response due to certain types of venomous jel- lyfish. A group from Perth report that an unusual 2020 bronchiolitis season in Western Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic showed no relationship to local weather pat- terns.

The aim of this study was to explore the influences, processes and environments that shaped the practice of European nurses for indigenous New Zealand (NZ) Māori communities who were being overwhelmed by introduced infectious diseases. Historical data were accessed from multiple archival sources and analysed through the lens of colonial theory. Through their work early last century, NZ nurses actively gained professional status and territory through their work with Māori. By living and working alongside Māori, they learned to practise in new ways that influenced Māori health. By developing a new role in new professional territory, nurses extended their practice to include health promotion as well as disease prevention. Māori survival from epidemics improved, and the population grew over that period. For Māori, however, Eurocentric care alleviated their immediate health problems, but the detrimental impact of the mechanisms of colonisation overall has continued to the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several articles published within issue on topics related caesarean scar ectopic pregnancies.

In New Zealand in 2006, a professional photographer undertook a photo essay of residents and staff in an aged care residential setting. The photographer captured the 'lifeworld' of the institution through photographing the images of daily life. The resulting photo essay, which included some photographs of older people naked and in semi-dress, was published in New Zealand's principal nursing journal in May 2006. There ensued an unprecedented reaction that divided New Zealand's nursing world. In this paper, I explore possible meanings of the 'photo furore', through discourse analysis of the numerous letters to the nursing journal editors. These letters reveal reactions and opinions from both 'sides'- rejection and disapproval, acceptance and approval - as the situation developed into dichotomy. In this paper, the further aim is to address the issue of attitudes and reactions of the exposed ageing body from theoretical perspectives. Results reveal conflicting discourses and attitudes within nursing towards photographs of the ageing body and underlying this, how nurses believe older people should be thought about and cared for. These attitudes are wide-ranging and, on the one hand, include ageism and a desire to protect and supervise older people versus a greater tolerance and acceptance of older people as competent, autonomous beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An editorial is presented which argues against The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ANZJOG) turning to 60. Topics include clinical features being hirsutism, menstrual disturbance, infertility, and polycystic ovaries been noted at laparotomies in women; dealing with the management of Rhesus-immunized women in pregnancy; and a comprehensive survey of the causes, investigation and management of chronic pelvic pain.

The article offers information about diabetes in pregnancy. Topics include that diabetes in pregnancy frequently occurs along with other health problems; mentions that management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remains heterogeneous across Australian units; and also mentions an increasing trend to early-term labour induction for women with GDM with associated high rates of neonatal unit admission but good short-term newborn health.

The article discusses the demand for emergency medicine (EM) education and training in Australasia which reflect the growth of EM as a medical specialty due to the rise of medical graduates. It highlights the changes in the specialty of EM education and training as well as its value in workplace-based learning. It stresses the roles of the trainees in the EM including innovative thinkers, service providers and motivated EM physicians.

The author reflects on the complex relationships between different sex hormones and QTc electrocardiogram (ECG) duration in patients with Torsade de Pointes (TdP) ventricular polymorphic arrhythmia. Other topics include the effects of estradiol, testosterone and progesterone on QTc, the study on the systemic effects of progesterone on cardiac electrophysiology, and the effectiveness of progesterone pretreatment in reducing incidence of drug-induced TdP arrhythmias, trigeminy, and bigeminy.

The article offers information on the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) defines health equity for Maori in New Zealand. It mentions Maori patients experience culturally safe services that meet their health equity needs; and also mentions cultural training is embedded in Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM) training, clinical practice, clinical support time and continuing professional development.

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss articles within the issue on topics including rural health services, medical care service in New Zealand and urban health disparities in the country.

The authors reflect on the regionalization of fetal medicine in Australia and New Zealand. They suggest that the rational provision of health care, including fetal medicine, is cursed by geography in Australia. They argue that the development of an organization such as the Australian Fetal Medicine Network will help ensure that all future fetal health interventions in Australia and New Zealand are safe and sustainable.

The author talks about screening for cervical cancer in Australia and New Zealand. Topics discussed include the use of human papilloma virus (HPV)vaccination for prevention; the National Cervical Screening Program in New Zealand; and the 'Unfortunate Experiment,' a breach of the fundamental duty by medical personnel in New Zealand.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the journal's initiative Core Outcomes in Women and Newborn (CROWN) health, the publication of obstetric and gynaecology related topics, and articles on training opportunities among medical students.

An introduction is presented which discusses various articles within the issue on topics including the quality of analgesia in an emergency department, anti-cancer treatment, and barriers to research in emergency medicine.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the discipline of nutrition, risk of zinc deficiency in New Zealand and Australia, and the impact of a store nutrition policy developed by an Aboriginal community in Australia on beverage purchasing.

The author offers observations on controversy over cervical cancer screening in New Zealand. He considers conflicting opinions on the practices of the National Women’s Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, in regard to a study of women with CIN 3 diagnosed between 1965-1974. He discusses the views of some that the study was unethical and considers the complexity of ethical clinical research.

The author reflects on rates of stillbirth which are seen across the globe in 2011. He suggests that preterm birth and stillbirth are the two of the most challenging problems in contemporary obstetrics in 2011. He argues that stillbirths are distressing for families and health care providers and that there are no proven strategies available to prevent stillbirths in the general obstetric population in 2011.