Tuesday 22 May 2012, 4:05PMSome serious savings need to be made at Waikato District Health Board – and a hiring freeze could form part of the solution
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 4:04PMIt's final. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now officially recommends against routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA)–based prostate cancer screening for healthy men, regardless of age
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 2:22PMAn anaesthetist who allegedly infected 56 women with hepatitis C at a Melbourne abortion clinic had used the syringes on himself in a bid to hide his drug addiction, a court has heard
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 2:07PMParents need to do more to stop children spending too much time watching television or playing computer games, according to a psychologist
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 11:47AMHamilton-born singing sensation Kimbra has the potential to be the next Prince, according to the chairman of Warner Brothers Records
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 11:47AMThe Accident Compensation Corporation says it's taking significant steps to improve its privacy following a series of serious security lapses
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 11:46AMA Wellington medical practice based in a vulnerable community has scrapped free doctors' visits for schoolchildren as it faces a funding cut of more than $270,000
Tuesday 22 May 2012, 11:46AMMidwives across both Whanganui and MidCentral health boards have condemned a planned regional women's health service, a proposal which would have a major impact on maternity services at Wanganui Hospital
Monday 21 May 2012, 12:53PMPrescriptions for drugs to treat hyperactivity have soared in a decade with more than 100,000 Kiwi kids now on medication
Monday 21 May 2012, 12:52PMThe number of patients visiting the Southland Hospital's emergency department for alcohol-related injuries has almost doubled in the past three years
Monday 21 May 2012, 12:51PMThe World Health Organisation is expected this week to declare polio a global health emergency as it battles complacency in an attempt to eradicate the deadly virus forever
Monday 21 May 2012, 12:51PMIn this year's Budget, Health Minister Tony Ryall told us, health receives a big funding boost, "which will come from savings within health and across the Government's accounts"
Monday 21 May 2012, 12:50PMHealth labs in Dunedin have apologised to the Otago woman who had a mastectomy by mistake this year after her breast biopsy specimen was swapped with another
Monday 21 May 2012, 12:49PMThe Rural General Practice Network supports a call to find out if a Government scheme designed to attract healthcare workers to rural areas - is working
Friday 18 May 2012, 2:10PMA car surfing cat took an almost two kilometre ride on a car roof through Blenheim before being saved by a mystery man.
Friday 18 May 2012, 11:48AMThe last 60 years have been the hottest in Australasia for a millennium and cannot be explained by natural causes, according to a new report by scientists that supports the case for a reduction in manmade carbon emissions
Friday 18 May 2012, 11:47AMThousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, were more widely prescribed, research suggests
Friday 18 May 2012, 11:47AMThe task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems a whole lot harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics and the chances of quick medical payoffs from the human genome project, given new data about the human genome in two reports published online in the journal Science on Thursday
Friday 18 May 2012, 11:19AMRural Women New Zealand national president Liz Evans, of Marlborough, has backed a call for coroners' findings to be given more weight, saying it could save lives
Friday 18 May 2012, 11:19AMClearly, the government now thinks the public mood in this recessionary climate is so hostile to beneficiaries that it can afford to indulge its own worst impulses towards them
Friday 18 May 2012, 11:18AMA move to regulate more than 800 paramedics nationwide has the full support of a Waikato ambulance manager who says the proposed legislation will get rid of "cowboys" in the sector
Thursday 17 May 2012, 3:11PMThe head of the Accident Compensation Corporation is apologising for another major privacy blunder. And it is a mistake ACC tried to keep secret
Thursday 17 May 2012, 2:45PM‘Euthanasia and assisted suicide: A discussion we need to have’ Panel: Professor Sean Davison, Hon. Maryan Street, MP, Professor Grant Gillett, John Kleinsman, Associate Professor Colin Gavaghan Chair: Professor Paul Trebilco. This event includes the presentation of a research paper on attitudes towards euthanasia in New Zealand by Thomas Noakes-Duncan.
Thursday 17 May 2012, 2:44PM‘Euthanasia and assisted suicide: A discussion we need to have’ Panel: Professor Sean Davison, Hon. Maryan Street, MP, Professor Grant Gillett, John Kleinsman, Associate Professor Colin Gavaghan Chair: Professor Paul Trebilco. This event includes the presentation of a research paper on attitudes towards euthanasia in New Zealand by Thomas Noakes-Duncan.
Thursday 17 May 2012, 1:24PMHigher prescription fees will cause a rise in costly hospital visits as low-income earners opt to forgo their medications, Northland health providers say
Thursday 17 May 2012, 1:23PMChristine Smith has resigned as chief executive of the Marlborough Primary Health Organisation (PHO), a move greeted with a sense of loss by those who have worked with her
Thursday 17 May 2012, 1:21PMCutting air pollution has an instant impact on heart health, experts believe, after reviewing studies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Thursday 17 May 2012, 1:19PMHealth is probably the subject that concerns citizens more than any other and I have had a number of positive comments about the treatment patients have received in the Wanganui and Palmerston North hospitals in recent weeks
Thursday 17 May 2012, 1:18PMOver-the-counter HIV tests that would allow people to check in the privacy of their homes if they have the virus have moved a step closer in the US
Thursday 17 May 2012, 12:21PMA couple whose son died when his breathing apparatus stopped in an electricity cut are urging health authorities to distribute equipment with back-up power supplies to patients at home
Thursday 17 May 2012, 12:20PMAs sure as night follows day, any proposed rise in the cost of healthcare in this country will be condemned. So criticism of announced price rises for prescriptions, from $3 to $5 as of January 1 next year, should not come as a surprise
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 4:02PMIf you don't bond with your baby immediately, you're a bad mother, right? Wrong – and it's not compulsory for pregnant women to have a "glow" about them, either.
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 3:21PMA Wellington halfway house where a man was stabbed to death was not under proper supervision from the Capital and Coast District Health Board, a coroner has found
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:20AMA Northland school asked for the siblings of a boy with HIV to be kept home for two days after a tense meeting with some parents
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:20AMSouthland Hospital is expected to be licensed to perform abortions from July
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:19AMBurnout rates which affect more than a quarter of young surgeons are being addressed at Counties Manukau District Health Board with a programme to make doctors remain vigilant about their quality of life
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:19AMAuckland politician Warren Flaunty has been ordered to pay $20,000 in reparation and has been disqualified from driving over the death of a motorcyclist
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 10:18AMThe Prime Minister says low income earners should not be worried about the higher price of prescriptions because they too will benefit from improvements to other parts of the health service
Tuesday 15 May 2012, 11:45AMMana Party leader Hone Harawira says proposed increases to the cost of prescriptions "will lead to children dying"
Tuesday 15 May 2012, 11:45AMOpposition parties are warning the rise in prescription charges will hit low-income families and the elderly hard, and could have deadly consequences