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Heart drug recalled over defects

Doctors urged to refuse medical certificates for time off work

Pharmacists seeking costs of drug recall

Budget 2010: Biggest increase may still not be enough

Healthbot way of the future

Lung cancer checks boost survival rate

Patient attacked at hospital

Ms ALL and Dr BLACK have a baby

She may be an "All-Black", but a baby's links to rugby stardom are no help in paying an unexpected bill of more than $12k for her health care.

Heart tablets recalled

Spanish face transplant patient goes public

A Spanish man who underwent a partial face transplant hugged his surgeon and expressed gratitude to the donor's family as he appeared in public for the first time.

Doctor cleared of privacy breach

'Holy grail' of cancer vaccines one step closer

A cancer vaccine approved in the US is potentially paving the way for effective treatments to become widely available in two or three years.

No kids' medicine recall for NZ

Soccer: All Whites' female doctor a Cup first

Genome scientist given drugs to combat future illnesses

An apparently healthy man has become the first person in the world to be prescribed a medicine based on an analysis of his genome.

<i>Des Gorman</i>: Mission to heal the health system

'Bad batch' of flu vaccine now ruled out

The maker of the flu vaccine now implicated in a rash of child sickness across Australia has ruled out a "bad batch" is involved.

Vaccine reactions deter mother