The Te Waipounamu RN Prescribing in Community Health programme enables nurses across the South Island to prescribe common ...

More than 6,600 people so far across Southland and Otago have benefited from a nationwide programme called Comprehensive ...

Doctors are being warned to be on alert for people with symptoms of dengue fever as the number of cases in New Zealand surges. National Public Health Service physician Dr Sharon Sime told Midday ...

More than four in 10 (43%) pregnant and breastfeeding women seeking treatment at Save the Children’s clinics in Gaza in July were malnourished, said Save the Children. Some breastfeeding mothers are ...

“This involved shining light into the animals’ brains, allowing us to monitor brain cell activity over the day and night as the animals moved around freely. We could then look at how the activity of ...

“This new facility marks a significant step forward for urgent healthcare in Lower Hutt,” Mr Brown said. “Urgent care and after-hours services help ease pressure on hospital emergency departments by ...

In Aotearoa, this tends to negatively and disproportionately impact Māori, and tāngata whaikaha Māori (Māori with lived experience of disability) especially. One of the consequences is that we often ...

Renee Taylor relates her experiences as a dysphagia-specialist speech-language therapist working in aged care. She looks at what can be done to minimise risks and enhance quality of life for ...

Uploaded for your reading pleasure, the Cabinet documents released following the GP25 announcement of health minister Simeon Brown's quartet of primary care initiatives ...

The Government is proposing to replace NCEA with new national qualifications that ensure young people have the knowledge and ...

Some people find background music a distracting and irritating noise, but for some of us the music in the background is the ...

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