

New Zealand Respiratory Conference 2018
The New Zealand Respiratory Conference is an annual event, which was established in 1998, and is the largest gathering, networking event, and hui of GP’s, nurses, specialists, educators and health professionals with an interest in respiratory health in New Zealand. This November the conference has a fantastic programme lined up, touching on some very topical presentations around what the future holds, for example, how climate change can affect respiratory health, e-cigarettes


4-month regimen of rifampin was not inferior to the 9-month regimen of isoniazid for the prevention
Two groundbreaking studies, one in adults and the other in children, have trialed a less toxic drug than Isonaizid for latent TB and cut the treatment time from nine months to four. Read the article from the New England Journal of Medicine here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1714283?query=featured_home