Friday 30 July 2010, 11:29amPalmerston North GPs covering weekend and evening rosters at City Doctors have had enough of being the only ones working while the rest of the region's GPs take time off.
Friday 30 July 2010, 11:25amNew Zealand has been ranked last in a comparison of 14 developed nations on their use of selected medicines.
Friday 30 July 2010, 11:20amCongratulations!, to Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, Hutt Valley, Southern, Tairawhiti and Whanganui DHBs. Those seven sites have been selected as the inaugural DHBs to implement "The Productive Operating Theatre Programme" in New Zealand.
Thursday 29 July 2010, 6:00pmGPs will have to meet rigorous new standards in the commissioning of out-of-hours services or face action from the new NHS Commissioning Board and the Care Quality Commission, the Government has revealed.
Thursday 29 July 2010, 3:21pmPeople whose houses are piled high with a lifetime of memorabilia have long attracted the fascination of documentary makers and nosey neighbours alike.
Thursday 29 July 2010, 2:38pmSmog from peat fires around the city of Moscow has reached ten times above safe levels and is likely to kill hundreds of people, according to news reports issued earlier on Wednesday.
Thursday 29 July 2010, 2:31pmCommunity Housing Aotearoa has commended the Human Rights Commission for the release of its latest paper reviewing how well the right to housing is observed in New Zealand, its assessment of where New Zealand is falling well short of international standards and key priorities for action.
Thursday 29 July 2010, 2:22pmGPs and other health professionals should tell people they are fat rather than obese, England's public health minister says.
Thursday 29 July 2010, 2:18pmThe make-up of the panel to advise Director-general of Health Stephen McKernan about future neurosurgery services in the South announced this month differs markedly from what was proposed in June.
Wednesday 28 July 2010, 2:03pmThe Nelson Marlborough District Health Board spent $1.5 million more than budgeted on residential care in rest homes in the financial year just ended.
Wednesday 28 July 2010, 2:03pmChildren with ADHD may soon be treated by their GPs rather than by hospital specialists, the Taranaki District Health Board says.
Wednesday 28 July 2010, 1:42pmThe Government has strongly rejected demands by MPs for the funding of homeopathy on the NHS to be withdrawn, claiming it would fly in the face of patient choice and local decision-making.
Wednesday 28 July 2010, 1:36pmAfter being touted as the ultimate role model, Britain's National Health Service, a fiscal failure, is about to be radically decentralized.
Wednesday 28 July 2010, 1:35pmYou’ve probably had the experience of going to see a primary care physician and wondering about the many aspects of that visit that just didn’t make sense.
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 11:24amNew US research on mice suggests that bone plays a key role in insulin regulation and helps cells of the body take up glucose; as both these processes are impaired in people with type 2 diabetes the researchers suggest this discovery could lead to new diabetes drugs.
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 11:22amTe Mahi Kai - the language of food - is the theme of this year's Maori Language Week. Nouveau Maori cuisine chef Charles Royal, who brought Kiwis delights such as pikopiko hummus, has a passion for using kai from the bush and giving it a modern twist. Here are some of his top tips for harvesters...
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 11:21amNursing interviews these days tend not to feature a stern matron flanked by her Pekinese dogs.But that was what nervous young women encountered when they sought to enter nursing at St George's Hospital, London, in the 1940s. - Eighty years of nursing memories (courtesy of St George's Hospital)
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 11:20amArmitage is walking the 264-mile Pennine Way. He started with no money and is instead staging nightly poetry readings in halls, houses and pubs en route in return for donations, accommodation and food.
Monday 26 July 2010, 2:57pmThe Department of Veterans Affairs will formally allow patients treated at its hospitals and clinics to use medical marijuana in states where it is legal, a policy clarification that veterans have sought for several years.
Monday 26 July 2010, 1:47pmHealth Minister Tony Ryall has asked midwifery regulators to look at how graduate midwives can get more training before becoming lead maternity carers.
Monday 26 July 2010, 1:46pmNHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.
Monday 26 July 2010, 1:45pmUS health inspectors take a closer look at hot dogs and more...
Friday 23 July 2010, 10:54amThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently began arranging the relocation of some 70,000 rare sea turtle eggs from 700 Gulf Coast nests in the path of the BP oil spill.
Friday 23 July 2010, 10:53amAlmost one in five girls say they have been pregnant at least once by the age of 18, according to a Government survey published today.
Friday 23 July 2010, 10:52amSome of the world’s top AIDS experts issued a radical manifesto this week at the 18th International AIDS Conference: They declared the war on drugs a 50-year-old failure and called for it to be abandoned.
Friday 23 July 2010, 10:51amA new US study found that giving children drugs for malicious reasons, which is not classed as a form of child abuse and perhaps should be, is an under recognized national problem.
Friday 23 July 2010, 10:50amThe precise cause of the immune reaction that leads to coeliac disease has been discovered.
Friday 23 July 2010, 10:46am"The only conceivable reason for allowing dogma to dominate in this way is that the government doesn't want anyone independently auditing its performance on sustainable development - let alone properly-resourced, indisputably expert body operating as 'a critical friend' on an inside track within government."
Thursday 22 July 2010, 11:42amMost women who have had Caesarean sections can safely give birth the normal way later, studies have shown, but in recent years more and more hospitals, doctors and insurers have been refusing to let them even try, insisting on repeat Caesareans instead.
Thursday 22 July 2010, 9:56amPeople who attack health workers should face tougher penalties at sentencing, health leaders say.
Thursday 22 July 2010, 9:54amCapsaicin, the stuff that gives chili peppers their kick, may cause weight loss and fight fat buildup by triggering certain beneficial protein changes in the body, according to a new study on the topic.
Thursday 22 July 2010, 9:53amFederal health officials are barring new patients from enrolling in a safety study of GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes pill Avandia, a week after a panel of experts ruled that the drug increases heart risks.
Thursday 22 July 2010, 9:52amThe project cost around £350,000 but staff at the Great Western Hospital say the robots, named Wall-E and Eve, are a great help.
Thursday 22 July 2010, 9:51amLegalising euthanasia has won huge support from readers of the Herald website, reflecting the earlier findings of scientific public opinion polls.
Wednesday 21 July 2010, 3:26pmAir fresheners and some cleaning products increase the risk of breast cancer, a study suggests.
Wednesday 21 July 2010, 3:24pmThe elderly could face a bill for tens of thousands of pounds to pay for their care in old age after the Coalition disclosed that a “death tax” was still a possibility.
Wednesday 21 July 2010, 3:23pmCoffin-makers are super-sizing caskets to meet demand as obesity increases in New Zealand.
Tuesday 20 July 2010, 2:18pmTony Nicklinson, 56, wants his wife to be allowed to help him die without the risk of being prosecuted for murder.
Tuesday 20 July 2010, 2:08pm"In this country, HIV clearly strikes the economically disadvantaged in a devastating way," - CDC HIV/AIDS expert Kevin Fenton
Tuesday 20 July 2010, 9:26amVilla Gardens staff believe management has hired private investigators to find out who has passed information about the rest home to The Press, unions say.