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Doctors charge $25 for children
Parents from some low-income Auckland suburbs face paying up to $25 for young children to see a doctor at an after-hours…
Fitness Challenge: Hoops of fun for all
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.
Psych patients fight smoking ban
High court action will be launched tomorrow against a smoking ban in an acute mental health facility.
Travellers' Tips
Five tourist spots for film buffs
Movie lovers are flocking to the south of France for…
Charlotte's bionic dream
Quadruple amputee Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman dreams of bionic legs and hands allowing her to pick groceries from a supermarket…
Sisters deal with Jolie's dilemma
British television presenter Kirstie Allsopp and her two sisters all face Angelina Jolie's breast cancer dilemma.
Mum told to quit home
Mia Geraets lived for 25 years at the resthome her brother helped establish. It was a shock to her family when the resthome…
Diana Lennon: Our future wasted
You've seen the pictures of large numbers of people with mattresses on the floor, small houses where families crowd together…
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Smoking ban in spotlight as judicial review begins
A former mental health patient, who was denied the right to smoke, believes allowing addicted patients…
Improvements for Kiwis who suffer from a painful disease
It is World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day, and the plight of the estimated one in 35 New Zealanders who have Crohns Disease…
Doctors seek help to mend broken hearts
Sunlight beams through the lounge window at the Katoas' house creating warmth and comfort. The house is matchbox-size, immaculate…
Flesh eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
A woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease has been fitted with prosthetic…
Isla Fisher bullied in to shedding baby weight
Australian actress Isla Fisher was bullied into losing her baby weight by a fearsome personal trainer…
Alan Perrott: All by myself
Alan Perrott looks forward to some long-overdue self-indulgence.
Fans pay big bucks to cook with Gwyneth
Gwyneth Paltrow is set to show off her cooking skills to a group of fans who have paid US$2000 for a meet-and-greet session…
Opposition slams rush on disability payments
A bill which allows people who cared for disabled family members to get paid by the Govt has passed into law a day after…
DNA key to breast cancer in spotlight
Even celebrities are mortal. They share our genes and, like us, cannot escape their inheritance.
Jolie strides out for all of womankind
Health Archives
If this was Angelina Jolie's masterplan to divert attention away from her upper thigh, which she flashed…
Life & Style
How to nurture a genius
I am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards…
Health & Wellbeing
School breakfast programme may run five days a week
A school breakfast programme run by Fonterra and Sanitarium may be extended to five days a week with extra Government support…
Exercise
A day on the green
Danielle Wright meets a group of teenage lawn bowlers at the New Lynn Bowling Club.
National
Delays as Wellington train derails
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Updated Hundreds of passengers are being evacuated from trains after one derailed near Wellington during the…
Medicine
Pilot scheme finds 60 cancer cases
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A bowel cancer screening programme pilot credited with saving 60 lives in its first year highlights…
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