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Peter Griffin: The risky business of private health data online

Digital health isn’t a luxury any more, it’s an essential part of modern medicine.

Study shows brains mature early, driving judgment doesn’t

We may have all the grey matter we get by our teens but that doesn’t make us good drivers.

Stitched up? Why the risks of offshore weight loss surgery are troubling NZ doctors

Surgeon urges more controls on “medical tourism” as costs for botched ops rise.

I spent 2025 writing of lives turned upside down by rare diseases and autoimmune conditions. Here’s what it’s taught me about health

Many people I speak to have health conditions they have absolutely no control over.

Why those denigrated as “snowflakes” are more likely to see injustices in the world

Highly sensitive people report deep connections to other people and their environment.

Focus goes on developing new, more targeted cancer treatments

Auckland scientists are trialling molecules that will carry the fight to cancer cells.

Something rotten: The sorry state of New Zealand’s dental health

A national roadshow shows how unfunded adult dental care in NZ makes little sense.

Te Whatu Ora’s former chair Rob Campbell: Axing Māori health authority one of the greatest crimes against health services

A new way of delivering health services would have benefited Pākehā as well as Māori.