Friday 30 March 2012, 2:13PMIn our wonderfully convenient century, so many services are readily available without the long wait times or long trips of decades before
Friday 30 March 2012, 2:12PMTimaru's colour-coded three-bin recycling system has finally been rolled out across all South Canterbury District Health Board sites, with the exception of one colour – yellow
Friday 30 March 2012, 2:12PMUS aviation regulators rely on airline pilots to disclose mental-health treatment when they undergo medical screening as often as once every six months.Still, it's relatively easy for pilots -- including Clayton Osbon, the JetBlue captain who was locked out of the cockpit by his co-pilot and tackled by passengers March 27 after becoming erratic -- to conceal psychological issues
Friday 30 March 2012, 2:11PMWithin two months of finding out she had Huntington's disease, Elizabeth Sheldon had made her mind up
Friday 30 March 2012, 2:10PMPublic health specialists are investigating how half a class of school children and some of their parents became ill on a school trip
Friday 30 March 2012, 2:10PMUS doctors order fewer lab tests when they have access to a patient's electronic medical records, according to a new study, but the efficiency may be confined to state-of-the-art records exchanges for now
Thursday 29 March 2012, 11:30AMIt’s time to get off your keister. Another study finds that sitting for too long increases your risk of death, even if you exercise regularly. Suddenly, those treadmill desks are sounding more appealing.
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:59AMElderly suicide rates are flying under the radar in Taranaki because the problem "isn't sexy", according to a retiring mental health advocate
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:58AMSome district health boards owe staff more than a million hours in leave entitlements
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:57AMA new study by researchers from Yale and Johns Hopkins reveals the molecular pathway by which the body’s inflammatory immune response may trigger its own inhibition, protecting tumor cells from destruction and allowing the growth of melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:57AMOlder patients with clogged heart arteries may have a little lower death risk over time if they get bypass operations instead of angioplasty and stents to fix the problem, new research out of the US suggests
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:56AMYou can't tell, but a study recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology shows that UV photography might provide important information about risk, not visible to the naked eye. The amount of sun damage in UV photographs taken of a large cohort of 12-year-old's correlated with known melanoma risk factors including freckles, fair skin, red hair and light eye color
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:54AMGPs are set to lose control over training and professional development under Government plans to replace postgraduate deaneries with local education and training boards (LETBs), a Pulse investigation reveals.
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:53AMGP registrars are not receiving enough out-of-hours training because commercial providers are more focused on meeting targets than educating trainees, experts have warned.
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:52AMReceptionists at a GPs’ surgery refused to call 999 or even get one of the eight doctors at the practice for a seriously ill 87-year-old patient, despite her grandson’s desperate pleas.
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:51AMDeciding whether to open GP surgeries on Saturday mornings will be a "question of priorities" for the NHS, the doctors' union has said. The BMA suggested offering Saturday appointments - a Welsh government commitment - could mean cuts elsewhere.
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:25AMThe use of a subcutaneous loop recorder identified patients with neurally mediated syncope, allowing clinicians to then reduce the patients' recurrence of fainting by using pacemaker therapy, researchers reported here
Thursday 29 March 2012, 10:24AMA bruised fingernail or toenail is usually the result of a direct hit to the nail, for example a concrete block dropped on the toe or a hammer slammed down on the thumbnail
Wednesday 28 March 2012, 4:09PMYoung Pacific people born in New Zealand are more vulnerable to mental health problems than those who migrate here, a mental health specialist says
Wednesday 28 March 2012, 4:08PMCanterbury health staff are owed 528 years off work
Wednesday 28 March 2012, 4:08PMThe operators of Queenstown’s only rest home are quitting their contract to provide aged care – but they won’t say why
Wednesday 28 March 2012, 4:07PMNew Zealand should be phasing out tobacco, and cigarette exports should be banned not increased, a public health professor says
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 3:29PMAn investigation has been launched into the death of a near full-term baby in Middlemore Hospital after her mother's scar from two previous emergency caesarean sections opened up
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 3:28PMThe National Council of Women says Whanganui District Health Board should leave no stone unturned in recruiting rather than move women to Palmerston North to give birth
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 3:27PMInternet savvy patients, fierce pharmaceutical competition and higher expectations of medical success have changed the face of the healthcare industry
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 2:16PMTwenty-eight patients were incorrectly removed from an endoscopy waiting list in 2005, the South Canterbury District Health Board has admitted
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 2:16PMWhen 21-month-old Marley Marston was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer, his mum grew up and his dad walked out
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:46AMIn a new study, people who ate chocolate a few times per week or more weighed less than those who rarely indulged in the sweet
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:33AMThe Health Department has conceded the Gillard government's personally controlled e-health record system is vulnerable to attack at the users' end
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:31AMFrench medical groups have filed complaints against celebrity diet guru Pierre Dukan, whose diet was reportedly used by the Middleton family ahead of Kate's wedding to Prince William
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 11:30AMDepartment of Health pilots to create seamless' care have had a broadly negative effect on patient satisfaction and have not delivered any tangible cost savings, says an official analysis
Monday 26 March 2012, 4:27PMUnpaid bills racked up by foreign patients at New Zealand's largest health board rose by a third to $18 million last year
Monday 26 March 2012, 4:26PMIncreasing numbers of young children are being medicated for anxiety and depression, with mental health providers saying the problem has gone beyond common moodiness
Monday 26 March 2012, 4:26PMTo compare the effects of free nicotine replacement therapy or proactive telephone counselling in addition to standard smoking cessation support offered through a telephone quitline
Monday 26 March 2012, 4:25PMPregnant women will be the target of compulsory warning labels on alcohol products, which are set to be phased in over the next two years
Friday 23 March 2012, 3:15PMOffering free nicotine patches or intensive counselling to smokers calling the English NHS helpline does not help them quit, a study in the BMJ says
Friday 23 March 2012, 2:29PMExploring the grim realities of the old Mental Health Care systems in New Zealand, this home-grown documentary follows five former patients as they recall their experiences in the residential psychiatric ‘bins’
Friday 23 March 2012, 1:51PMExclusive: GPs face restrictions on their use of the first alternative to warfarin to be approved on the NHS in 50 years, after PCTs and clinical commissioning groups began frantically drawing up prescribing policies to soften the financial impact
Friday 23 March 2012, 1:50PMBolivian doctors said they successfully removed a 15-kilogram tumour from a woman in her 35th week of pregnancy who has since given birth to a healthy baby girl
Friday 23 March 2012, 1:50PMA biological clue to male baldness has been discovered, raising the prospect of a treatment to stop or even reverse thinning hair