Friday 28 September 2012, 3:20PM Fecal incontinence, or the inability to control the bowels, is a highly underreported and stigmatized condition, according to colorectal surgeons at Loyola University Health System (LUHS).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120926161542.htm
Friday 28 September 2012, 3:17PMSnoring on its own, without the more serious sleep apnoea, does not increase the rise of death or cardiovascular disease, Australian researchers say.
Friday 28 September 2012, 3:15PMHunger and junk meals at schools is a political hot potato, but not one that concerned Cannons Creek pupils yesterday when Kids Kai Time came calling.
Friday 28 September 2012, 10:17AMSentencing of a Rotorua doctor who hadadmitted assaulting his partner has been put off until next month
Friday 28 September 2012, 9:46AMThe Southern District Health Board will handle all communications for the burgeoning South Island Alliance, starting in November
Friday 28 September 2012, 9:45AMThe region's MRI service is at full capacity with nearly 150 people having to wait longer than new Ministry of Health guidelines for their scan results
Friday 28 September 2012, 9:44AMThere's a push for abortion to be taken out of the Crimes Act.
Friday 28 September 2012, 9:42AMPeople living in the Waitemata district can expect to live almost 16 years longer than the global average.
Friday 28 September 2012, 9:42AMDeborah Gleeson raises some interesting points about the potential effects of free trade agreements on access to medicines in New Zealand (US proposal on Pharmac a bitter pill). However, we suggest that real life patient outcomes should be at the heart of any discussion about access to medicines.
Thursday 27 September 2012, 11:59AMCan you improve your body’s ability to remember by making it move? That rather odd-seeming question stimulated researchers at the University of Copenhagen to undertake a reverberant new examination of just how the body creates specific muscle memories and what role, if any, exercise plays in the process
Thursday 27 September 2012, 11:50AMSome of Wellington's poorest and neediest people have been hit hardest by health board cuts to general practices, according to one doctor.
Thursday 27 September 2012, 11:49AMNew Zealand researchers are inching closer to creating a world-first oral tuberculosis vaccine.
Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:17AMBarbara Young shares her views on supporting women in healthcare – and what she learned as she worked her way up
Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:16AMA second rest home has been taken over by the district health board after complaints. The Canterbury District Health Board has appointed a temporary manager to Bermuda House dementia rest home in Upper Riccarton after an audit was done two weeks ago in response to "anonymous concerns" about the standard of care.
Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:16AMSurgeon Dr Graeme Washer is a passionate advocate for health care and he is a spokesman for the Men's Health Trust NZ. September is Prostate Awareness month. He has four children and lives in Auckland with his partner
Thursday 27 September 2012, 10:15AMSnoring on its own, without the more serious sleep apnoea, does not increase the rise of death or cardiovascular disease, Australian researchers say
Wednesday 26 September 2012, 3:54PMA Far North GP says he has had many patients as desperate as hunger striker Sam Kuha.
Wednesday 26 September 2012, 3:51PMA harmless virus that lives on our skin could be used as a treatment for acne, scientists believe.
Wednesday 26 September 2012, 10:49AMA Putaruru school serving up compulsory breakfasts and hot lunches for just $1 a meal says the benefits are showing in students' dental records
Wednesday 26 September 2012, 10:49AMOutbreaks of norovirus and rotavirus have been reported at Wellington childcare centres and resthomes
Wednesday 26 September 2012, 10:48AMNew Zealand's internationally high workplace death toll and high levels of melanoma and rheumatic fever show there is no room for complacency over public health, Prof Jennie Connor, of the University of Otago, says.
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 2:12PMOPINION: My nephew is a policeman. For the last two years he's been part of the beefed-up policing effort in South Auckland. He has his share of 'better work stories', but most of the policing he does is 'domestic related
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 11:27AMA young man who died after elective brain surgery received "sub-optimal" care, the Health and Disability commissioner has found.
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 11:27AMScabies contributed to the "horrific death" of an 86-year-old woman in a Rangiora rest home which has since been taken over by the district health board.
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 11:26AMLast year, 4,720 people died while waiting for kidney transplants in the United States. And yet, as in each of the last five years, more than 2,600 kidneys were recovered from deceased donors and then discarded without being transplanted, government data show.
Tuesday 25 September 2012, 11:26AMThe World Health Organisation has issued a global alert for a new SARS-like respiratory virus that left a man from Qatar critically ill in a London hospital and killed at least one more in Saudi Arabia
Monday 24 September 2012, 10:06AMThe doctors prescribing the drugs don't know they don't do what they're meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they're not telling.
Monday 24 September 2012, 10:06AMSenior doctor tells trainee GPs to act less "overtly gay" in order to pass their medical examinations
Monday 24 September 2012, 10:05AMA man sought emergency treatment at hospital in Auckland this week with an eel stuck up his bottom.
Friday 21 September 2012, 11:19AMRevelations that four women had breasts removed when they did not have cancer has prompted a victim of one of New Zealand's worst cases of medical negligence to break her silence on the pain she lives with nearly 20 years on
Friday 21 September 2012, 11:19AMScabies outbreaks, poor staffing and limited shower use are among the complaints about a Rangiora rest home received by the Canterbury District Health Board.
Friday 21 September 2012, 11:18AMHealth leaders say some doctors and nurses are failing to talk to patients properly - and it's putting lives at risk.
Friday 21 September 2012, 11:18AMThe rising use of synthetic cannabis is having a significant impact on violence levels in mental health wards and a new law banning the substances is having no visible effect, a mental health director says
Friday 21 September 2012, 11:18AMDon Knight has no idea how many life-threatening infections his body struggled through during 12 months in hospital - he was in no state to count. "I was just hallucinating on morphine most of the time."
Thursday 20 September 2012, 12:07PMUp to a million people in the UK have "completely preventable" severe headaches caused by taking too many painkillers, doctors have said.
Thursday 20 September 2012, 11:18AMResearch on 1000 dairy farmers nationwide by Hamilton-headquartered AgResearch reveals the top causes of stress for dairy farmers are finances, workload, relationships and health
Thursday 20 September 2012, 11:17AMAuckland medical adviser says ranking by mortality can overlook DHB's access to palliative care
Thursday 20 September 2012, 11:17AMFood addiction should be recognised as a medical condition so obese people can get help to quit, the National Addiction Centre director says.
Wednesday 19 September 2012, 2:42PMA Whangarei rest home is in lockdown after finding 11 cases of norovirus gastroenteritis, which was linked to the deaths of two elderly Northland rest home residents last year
Wednesday 19 September 2012, 2:41PMAn encouraging study led by Dr Mark Hamer at my old College – University College London – suggests that it is never too late to start exercising and accrue the protective benefits against heart problems