Friday 29 June 2012, 11:05AMIn a landmark ruling that will impact the November election and the lives of every American, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the controversial health care law championed by President Barack Obama
Friday 29 June 2012, 11:04AMOnce again, a study points to coffee as cardioprotection, at least when it's consumed in moderation
Friday 29 June 2012, 11:04AMGPs should be alert that patients taking statins may report reduced energy and/or fatigue, say US researchers
Friday 29 June 2012, 11:03AMBeing unpopular with your classmates may not only make your schooldays miserable, it could also make you ill decades later
Friday 29 June 2012, 11:03AMFive young people who took their own lives in Kawerau over the space of four months had suffered from "emotional fragility" and may have likely had undiagnosed mental health issues, an expert has told an inquest
Friday 29 June 2012, 11:02AMA new study of the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes will look at how Maori mental health patients and their whanau and support networks responded throughout the disasters
Thursday 28 June 2012, 1:49PMMexican doctors have successfully removed a 15kg benign tumour from the body of a 2-year-old boy
Thursday 28 June 2012, 1:47PMLevin residents will be faced with a shortage of doctors to treat their winter ailments in the next few weeks
Thursday 28 June 2012, 1:46PMIt is wrong for off-label prescribing of ketamine in Dunedin's mental health service to continue while that practice is under investigation, former mental health consumer adviser Graham Roper says in a letter to the Southern District Health Board explaining his resignation
Thursday 28 June 2012, 1:45PMObesity causes fewer health problems in toddlers but really starts to bite in adolescence, Melbourne researchers say
Thursday 28 June 2012, 1:44PMNational is being accused of cronyism after three people closely affiliated with the party were appointed to the board of a new agency for promoting health programmes
Thursday 28 June 2012, 1:43PMThe Ministry of Health spent nearly $60,000 last year to evaluate a scheme that allows disabled people to employ their own carer; but is yet to release the results
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 1:50PMA simple brain trace can identify autism in children as young as two years old, scientists believe.
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:12AMThe Australian government’s commitment to health service reform has placed general practice at the centre of its agenda to manage chronic disease
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:11AMWaipareira Trust chief executive John Tamihere says a conflict of interest is developing between the Ministry of Social Development and Maori providers of social services
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:11AMACC has sent letters of apology to rape and incest victims whose privacy was breached – offering them $250 if they agree to stay silent
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:10AMSouthern pharmacists are seeking clarification on whether they have an extension to sign their Community Pharmacy Services Agreement
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:10AMEnvironment Canterbury has rejected criticism that it is wrongly targeting woodburners in its clean heat programme
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:10AMThe MidCentral District Health Board has voted to support the Whanganui DHB's decision to retain specialist maternity services with both healthcare providers
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:09AMA male nurse sacked for inappropriately touching two female nursing students has been found guilty of professional misconduct
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:09AMA small cut on an employee's arm, caused by an unsafe machine, has cost a Hamilton business just over $100,000
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:08AMA Nelson Marlborough District Health Board manager has resigned to take up a position with a health trust just north of Auckland
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 2:41PMKiwi Facebook users will be able to share their organ donor status with friends from today.
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 10:23AMAuckland hospitals and GPs are starting to see increasing numbers of patients with respiratory infections as winter takes hold and influenza spreads
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 10:23AMAs a number of practices look at ways of incorporating modern technology and creative approaches to reaching patients – whether its letters, text messaging, or phone calls – the key thing to keep in mind is that the whole aim of this is to support more successful quitting outcomes for greater numbers of people
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:36AMA "well-overdue" study on men sexually abused during childhood has been launched by Otago University
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:35AMSurgeons have removed a tumour from the mouth of a foetus, in what has been described as a "world first" procedure
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:34AMPeople left in charge of vulnerable infants were told to "exercise their duties responsibly" after an inquest for an Invercargill infant who died in 2010
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:34AMMore than half of British women have waists that are larger than the recommended healthy size, experts say
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:34AMThe appointment of the head of an influential lobby group for the food industry to a health promotion agency is not a conflict of interest, Prime Minister John Key said this afternoon
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:33AMTwo Taranaki children were put into hospital last week as a new strain of influenza hit the region
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 9:33AMThere's room for improvement among South Canterbury's primary health targets, according to latest figures
Monday 25 June 2012, 3:33PMAn elderly Temuka woman wants the South Canterbury District Health Board to reconsider its priorities after hospital staff suggested she taxi home at 2.30am
Monday 25 June 2012, 3:32PMThe value of a CT scanner is evident around the clock for Southland Hospital's clinical director of medical imaging Josie Parker
Monday 25 June 2012, 3:32PMLinda Barlow went into labour with her second son in October 2009. Fifteen hours later her baby was dead and she was on life support
Monday 25 June 2012, 3:32PMSmall-scale rural home-help providers are the losers in Southern District Health Board plans to seek Otago-Southland-wide providers of home-based support
Monday 25 June 2012, 10:36AMTeenagers are being let down by sex education that doesn't tell them it's best to wait until you're an adult and have one sexual partner for life, a visiting physician says
Monday 25 June 2012, 10:35AMKiwi preschoolers are undergoing mental health tests - some without their parents' knowledge
Monday 25 June 2012, 10:06AMA dying grandmother from South Africa has been told she cannot stay in New Zealand to be with her two daughters and grandchildren
Monday 25 June 2012, 10:05AMThe Southern District Health Board says its 15-bed Dunedin residential service for people with mental illness or addiction problems should be cut to 10