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Six dead, 5656 Covid cases today - new variant discovered in NZ

Case numbers are starting to plateau, except in the West Coast and South Canterbury.

'Safe and sensible': The schools sticking with mask mandates

Some schools join doctors' and scientists' call for classroom mask mandate over winter.

Up to 300 Kiwi women could have breast cancer and not know it

150 women could die of breast cancer they don't know they have...

5 fitness and wellness apps Kiwis will actually use

Signing up for an app is the easy part, but which will you actually use long term?

Great Minds | Dealing with anger

Hamish and Kyle discuss anger, and what you can do to feel better. Video / NZ Herald

Paula Bennett on weight loss surgery: 'I lost 50kg in 12 months'

Weight loss and reduced stress the best thing for a healthy life, says Paula Bennett.

Seven more Covid deaths and 7043 new community cases

Yesterday, there were 14 deaths, 8242 new cases and 480 people with Covid-19 in hospital.

'This cannot go on': Revealed - The biggest killer of pregnant women and new mums

Report calls for urgent changes to maternal health services.

Covid-19 community case numbers to stay above 5000 before increasing - expert

There were 9047 community cases reported yesterday.

Nurse who used company card to buy petrol found guilty of professional misconduct

Nurse buys petrol for private car on company credit card.

Revealed: The regions with NZ's biggest Covid-19 case rates

What was our least-infected region now has NZ's biggest per-capita Covid-19 case count.

New Covid 19 drug available in New Zealand

Molnupirav is a course of four tablets, taken every 12 hours for five days.

'It eases the pain': Former meth addict working on Northland doco

Warning: This story discusses addiction and self-harm.

Private hospital owner plans $200m capital raise for South Island push

Hospital owner Vital Healthcare plans to raise $200m to expand in the South Island.

Which animal viruses could infect people? Computers are racing to find out

New York Times: Biologist Colin Carlson has started to worry about mousepox.

'Medicine crisis': Potentially lifesaving cancer drugs still not publicly funded

Cancer report finds many potentially lifesaving drugs are still not publicly funded.