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Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Pope discusses the presentation and treatment of scabies, an intensely itchy but curable condition
1. Pope C (Tech Ed). Scabies. Healthcare Handbook 2023–2024. Auckland, NZ: The Health Media Ltd; 2023.
2. BPACnz. Scabies: diagnosis and management. 5 May 2022.
3. Thornley S, Marshall R, Jarrett P, et al. Scabies is strongly associated with acute rheumatic fever in a cohort study of Auckland children. J Paediatr Child Health 2018;54(6):625–32.
4. New Zealand Formulary. Scabies. NZF v140; 1 February 2024.
Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
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