Another setback for folate-fortified bread

Making folic acid compulsory in bread would reduce the rate of neural tube birth defects but MAF wants the decision delayed

Friends and family bid flying GP farewell

The funeral of a Palmerston North GP killed in a plane crash was held in Feilding yesterday

Another lean term for health spending

Improvements to health services must use existing resources, the Ministry of Health suggests to Tony Ryall in its briefing to the second-term health minister

Picture this – kids eat their greens

School children will help themselves to twice as many vegetables if their cafeteria lunch tray has photos of vegetables on it a new US study has found

One in five gay men with HIV in the dark about their infection: study

One in five gay and bisexual men with HIV do not know they have the infection, a new study conducted in Auckland shows

Views sought on folic acid fortification of bread

New dental clinic opened at Morrinsville Primary School

One in 5 gay men with HIV unaware of infection: Otago research

Pay equity boost for Australian workers – we need the same in NZ

Canterbury GP gets a Buzz

A tale of two stockings

Will the Christmas stockings be packed with goodies this year or hanging empty? Liane Topham-Kindley takes a look at recent trends in GP remuneration and finds them to be a bit of a mystery

...for Pete's sake

Deputy editor Amanda Cameron talks life, the universe and everything with a man (or is he a machine?) at the heart of medical and health practice and policy

PHO fates murky in alliance era

Liane Topham-Kindley reports some of the South Island's PHOs are uncertain about their future in the new era of alliance relationships

A safety net for digital medicine

Medical council chair John Adams outlines the council's review of telemedicine

PHO Graphic

On the election trail

The Buy Up of General Practice

Covering the Christchurch earthquake

Playing the Advantage - the conference for general practice 2011

Drug used by vets helps fight depression - MSN

IT should become the fourth science in schools: Orion Health boss - Computer World

Sleep disorders cost billions: study - New Zealand Herald

Malaria deaths hugely underestimated - Lancet study - BBC

SAS soldier's health worsens - New Zealand Herald

It is in the ordinary that mistakes happen

I often refer to the mantra "read the notes, ask the questions, talk to the patient", Health and disability commissioner Antony Hill writes

Another day at a Soweto Clinic

Rural medicine stalwart Campbell Murdoch finds medical drama is all in a day's work at the Centre for Rural Health, faculty of health sciences, University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa