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Focus: Heart drug funding plea

Cardiologists are urging Pharmac to fund life-saving SGLT2 inhibitors for heart failure. Video / NZ Herald

'Could have saved him': Mum's grief after losing unborn baby; fears for 'laid-back' maternity care

Lana calls for more routine screening, saying NZ's maternity care is too laid-back.

‘Worst nightmare’: Mum’s disbelief after 16yo son died within days of flu symptoms

Adored son and brother William Jones was fit and healthy before the sudden illness.

'Nothing better': Top Waikato surgeon on his life-changing work in Samoa

Dr Askar Kukkady is still performing miracles, 20 years on.

Months of pain for former hairdresser leads to colorectal cancer diagnosis

A few years after losing her son to suicide, she noticed fatigue. Then came the diagnosis.

Government cancer drugs promise could cost New Zealand

The Government has fulfilled its pre-election promise to fund new cancer drugs.

Mixed reaction from patients to cancer drugs promise

Specific treatments for bowel, liver, kidney, lung and bladder cancer have been named.

Hiring freeze: Doctor jobs unfilled as Health NZ cost-cutting bites

Doctors had job applications paused at the reference-checking stage, or delayed for weeks.

'It's insane': Patient advocate criticises tax cuts as people fundraise for surgeries, cancer treatments

Budget 2024 did not deliver the much-promised funding for 13 new cancer drugs.

When Covid and the flu collide – is our healthcare system ready?

OPINION: A double-whammy of illnesses may deliver New Zealand its sickest winter yet.

Kiwi mum's shock cancer diagnosis: 'Four tumours in my heart'

This Christchurch mum relies on $5500-a-month drugs to stay alive.

'Death sentence' living in NZ: Mum paying $180k for surgery in Germany

'If we didn’t go ... within the next five years I’ll die.'

Letters: PM's integrity on line over cancer drugs U-turn

OPINION: 'Cancer patients need action now, not lame excuses.'

Cancer patients dubious Govt will deliver on promise to fund new drugs

The promise of 'soon' is 'not good enough for people who are dying', a patient says.

Editorial: Cancer patients promised access to medicines shouldn't have to wait

OPINION: Patients – and families, friends and carers – are unlikely to forget the slight.

Watch: Jack Tame v Nicola Willis in heated post-Budget debate on Q+A

Willis was probed over why the Nats didn't campaign on how many families were worse off.