Wednesday 31 March 2010, 10:16AMAlmost three quarters of a million GP consultations have been taken up by influenza-like illness since the onset of swine flu, and 1.2 million antiviral courses have been issued, the Government has revealed.
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 10:15AMCondom use cuts the risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease
The growing resistance of antibiotics threatens to make gonorrhoea extremely difficult to treat, a Health Protection Agency official has warned.
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 10:15AMNICE has withdrawn its support for Framingham as the cardiovascular risk tool of choice in a lipid guidance update - but stopped short of explicitly recommending QRISK as a replacement.
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 10:14AMA charge of professional misconduct against a Te Anau pharmacist has been upheld, after investigators found dozens of breaches of health codes relating to dodgy production of erection drugs and treatments.
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 10:14AMMargaret Page became the face of a debate which drew euthanasia supporters, legal experts and the Catholic Church to speak out on her decision to starve herself to death.
Tuesday 30 March 2010, 3:27PM"The very fact that there should have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets without a cent to look after them ... is something astonishing to us," French president Nicolas Sarkozy says.
Tuesday 30 March 2010, 11:29AMJunk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine, according to a study showing that laboratory rats will endure painful electric shocks to satisfy their craving for high-calorie snacks made from sausages, bacon and cheesecake.
Tuesday 30 March 2010, 11:06AMKiwi doctors want adults to be banned from smoking in cars containing children. The ban is already in place in several Australian states. Two years ago Tasmania introduced an on-the-spot fine of $110.
Tuesday 30 March 2010, 11:04AMA former patient of the notorious Lake Alice psychiatric hospital in Manawatu is looking forward to a United Nations examination of events there in the 1970s, now that police inquiries have finished.
Sunday 28 March 2010, 11:33PMPhysicians' reactions to President Obama's health-care legislation are as complicated and varied as the bill itself and depend largely on the type of medicine they practice.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032604387.html?hpid=topnews
Sunday 28 March 2010, 11:32PMThe family doctor, or GP (general practitioner), is pivotal to the reform.
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=103774
Sunday 28 March 2010, 11:31PMHours before President Obama signed the health care bill Tuesday, George Butler, a retired steelworker, was the first patient to enter Evanston-Rogers Park Community Health Center. By 9 a.m., all of the 22 black and gray molded plastic seats were filled.
Sunday 28 March 2010, 11:30PMA doctor has been struck off for having a sexual relationship with a woman who was his patient. She was also his receptionist - and his stepdaughter
Friday 26 March 2010, 10:51AMA Christchurch doctor had part of his ear bitten off when he was attacked at a medical practice.
Friday 26 March 2010, 9:35AMAfter working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world's biggest diabetes epidemic.
Friday 26 March 2010, 9:12AMA sling-style infant carrier is recalled in the UK, only days after the US Consumer Product Saftey Commission advised caution when using infant slings for babies younger than four months of age.
Thursday 25 March 2010, 10:14AMKevin Rudd will attempt to relieve doctor shortages outside cities by tying hundreds of new medical training positions to regional hospitals under a $632 million medical workforce plan
Thursday 25 March 2010, 9:45AMMen have evolved a weaker immune system than women because of their ancestors' predilection to risky behaviour, UK researchers suggest
Thursday 25 March 2010, 9:36AMAustralian scientists say they have discovered a drug which could cure tuberculosis at its non-infectious stage and could be the first major breakthrough on the disease in 50 years.
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 8:46AMAn epic reminder
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 8:39AMObama's healthcare reform bill is the not the first piece of healthcare legislation visited upon the US. Here AP provide a list of the key pieces of legislation going back to 1798
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 8:38AMCarer champions are being introduced in 43 GP surgeries across Somerset.
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 8:37AMA disabled woman starving herself has the legal right to choose to die, experts say - The Dominion Post
Tuesday 23 March 2010, 8:49AMDemocrats have hailed the approval of legislation extending healthcare to an additional 32 million Americans as a historic advance in social justice.
Tuesday 23 March 2010, 8:48AMThe BMA has urged the Government to remove a legal clause that they say will allow language tests to be carried out on foreign doctors before they are permitted to work in the UK.
Tuesday 23 March 2010, 8:45AMGovernment 'no' to caesarean service - Ashburton Guardian
Monday 22 March 2010, 9:35PMIN a "useless and devastating" operation, surgeon Jayant Patel wrongly removed a patient's healthy bowel, leaving the man needing a permanent colostomy bag, a court has heard.
Monday 22 March 2010, 5:57PMNelson Bays Primary Health Organisation has attempted to gag a Golden Bay doctor for telling Health Minister Tony Ryall and the media that he is "being bullied" into accepting a "40 to 50 percent" pay cut.
Monday 22 March 2010, 12:31PMTaranaki's doctor shortage is not bad enough to qualify for the Government's voluntary bonding scheme.
Monday 22 March 2010, 12:30PMMore than a quarter of teenage cancer patients visited their GP four or more times before being referred to a specialist, a survey revealed
Monday 22 March 2010, 12:30PMTHE understated difficulty in seeing a doctor in the bush underscored the Government's latest big health announcement to significantly boost training places for general practitioners.
Monday 22 March 2010, 12:29PMOlder people who have never smoked benefit most from smoking bans, a study suggests.
Monday 22 March 2010, 12:28PMLatest stories and opinion on the passage of US health reform legislation
Friday 19 March 2010, 9:45AMVoice for Life communications manager Bernard Moran says when the Medical Council looked at abortion guidelines it didn't consider there may be GPs well-versed in recent research carried out here and overseas on abortion and mental health - who could object to offering abortion on the grounds that it may adversely harm their patient's mental health.
Thursday 18 March 2010, 6:27PMHealth minister Tony Ryall's answers to questions in Parliament today were subject to points of order and interjections with Clayton Cosgrove ultimately asked to leave the chamber. Issues covered included the 198 Youth Health Centre, nursing numbers and a nursing clinic in Tangimoana..."Hon Bill English (to Jacinda Ardern): You’re much better than Ruth." You get the tone!
Thursday 18 March 2010, 2:36PMA man visit s his GP with a strange problem. But, what with turmoil within the NHS and refocusing priorities from medical care to management figures, our patient may not receive quite what he expect...
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 8:43AMResearch demonstrating the successful reversal of the developmental aging of normal human cells has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Regenerative Medicine (2010; 16 March online)
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 8:35AMThe Rudd government has committed $632 million over four years to train thousands more doctors, as it throws out carrots to woo the states to back its hospitals reform package.
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 8:33AMA coroner said overdoses of morphine given to patients of a County Durham doctor contributed to their deaths.
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 8:33AMThe chief of a Dunedin primary health organisation that excelled in a national league table fears its performance will be threatened when it is absorbed into the new Otago-Southland PHO.