New Zealand Medical Journal

11/12/2025

The latest edition of the New Zealand Medical Journal | Te Ara Tika o te Hauora Hapori is out 🙌🏾

📚 FEATURE EDITORIAL | Are we there yet? Aotearoa's Smokefree 2025 goal and what comes next

Read here: https://nzmj.org.nz/

28/08/2025

The latest edition of the New Zealand Medical Journal | Te Ara Tika o te Hauora Hapori is out 🙌🏾

📚 FEATURE EDITORIAL | We can determine our future health

Read here: https://nzmj.org.nz/

24/07/2025

The latest edition of the New Zealand Medical Journal | Te Ara Tika o te Hauora Hapori is out 🙌🏾

📚 FEATURE EDITORIAL | Are cannabinoids with cancer immunotherapy contributing to early death? A call for caution and further study

Read here: https://nzmj.org.nz/

22/05/2025

The latest edition of the New Zealand Medical Journal | Te Ara Tika o te Hauora Hapori is now out 🙌🏾

📚 FEATURE EDITORIAL | 'Reflections on Otago Medical School (OMS) in its 150th anniversary year' by Peter Crampton. In this reflective piece, he explores the competing interests that shape medical education and how they continue to evolve at OMS.

Read here: https://nzmj.org.nz/

01/05/2025

Our latest publication is now live and features two great editorials. We are open access for all and you can find us via our website

The New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) is the principal scientific journal for the medical profession in New Zealand. The Journal has become a fundamental resource for providing research and written pieces from the health and medical industry.

10/04/2025

We warmly invite you to read our most recent journal publication that is now live. We are open access and this week's editorial features Professor Frank Frizelle.

www.nzmj.org.nz

27/03/2025

Our latest publication is live now. Head to our LinkedIn for further access to Dr Cindy Towns discussing her editorial "Poor planning: hospital design guidelines fundamentally flawed" co-authored with Dr Michelle Balm.

The full journal is available via our website and open access for all

13/03/2025

Our latest publication is now live! It features an editorial written by both Professor Frank Frizelle and Christchurch based, Oliver Waddell. "The Government’s pathetic response to lowering the age of bowel cancerscreening". See more via our website!

27/02/2025

Our February 28th publication is now live!

This editorial by Christopher Wakeman and Jonty Morreau (both based in Ōtautahi Christchurch) warn that loosening restrictions on gun laws could undo progress made after the Christchurch mosque attack in 2019.

New Zealand’s gun laws are under review—could public safety be at risk?

See the full article via our website - accompanied by a video from one of the authors themselves. Connect with us via our LinkedIn too

The New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) is the principal scientific journal for the medical profession in New Zealand. The Journal has become a fundamental resource for providing research and written pieces from the health and medical industry.

28/11/2024

Our latest publication is now live.
This feature's editorial has a T.W - mentions of su***de. Dr Sarah Fortune has published an insightful look into the su***de prevention action plan for public consultation covering 2025-2029 titled, "Time for a more evidence-based approach to su***de prevention". Video to come.

You can read or download the PDF via our website. We are open access for all.

https://nzmj.org.nz/

17/10/2024

Our latest publication is out now. We are open access for all so if you haven't subscribed to the journal, now is the time.

This publication's editorial features Professor David Murdoch and Dr Ashley Bloomfield who discuss Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response: are we better off now than pre-COVID?.

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The New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) is the principal scientific journal for the medical profession in New Zealand. The Journal has become a fundamental resource for providing research and written pieces from the health and medical industry.

01/10/2024

In our most recent publication, Dr Belinda Loring was interviewed by us to discuss the recent editorial, Ethnicity is an evidence-based marker of need (and targeting services is good medical practice) written by her.

The Summary "Dr Belinda Loring, Public Health Physician and Senior Research Fellow is a co-author of this journal publication’s editorial, Ethnicity is an evidence-based marker of need (and targeting services is good medical practice). Dr Loring speaks to us about the science behind ethnic targeting in health and provides us with some insight on the subject at hand. Dr Loring and the other authors have dedicated many years of research into evidence-based markers of population health needs. She is based at Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at The University of Auckland.".