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ACC law derails hip compensation claims
Kiwi claimants are pressing on with their bid to have a hip maker punished.
Mattress elevator has huge potential
A simple device designed by an inventive Dunedin mind has the medical fraternity buzzing.
Imprisoned autistic teen offered place
A severely autistic teen who has been held in prison for the past five days has been offered temporary accommodation.
Striking doctors back at work
Doctors are back at work after a 48-hour strike that postponed thousands of surgeries around the country.
West Coast patients' appointments postponed
Up to 30 West Coast patients won't get scheduled surgery or outpatient consultations next week as a result of the junior doctors' strike.
Cancers left hidden by test change
Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.
DHBs lined up for largest ICT research project
The $37.8 million programme involves listed healthcare system software developer Orion Health, the University of Auckland, and DHBs.
Doctors call 48-hour strike after talks fail
More than 3000 resident doctors around the country will walk off the job for 48 hours, starting October 18.
Waikato DHB saves millions with new blood service
In a New Zealand first, the DHB has set up the Blood Management Service which sees a patient's blood analysed and potentially boosted if needed.
Watch NZH Focus: Gastro Bug Continues to Grow
It’s been almost a week since the residents of Havelock North in Hawke’s Bay started to feel unwell. The local council has confirmed the supply of drinking water is contaminated, most likely with campylobacter. With schools closed and hundreds of people sick, the Hastings District Council is being forced into damage control with residents angry they weren’t informed sooner and local businesses reeling for the impact its having on their bottom line.
Half our doctors 'exhausted' at work
Alarming new report reveals than half the senior doctors and dentists working in New Zealand public hospitals are tired and exhausted on the job.
Sleep pods and e-cigs steps in right direction
Too often in matters of health and safety today, perfection becomes the enemy of improvement.
Kiwis hunt for Alzheimer's breakthrough
Finding a potential new treatment for Alzheimer's disease will be the aim of a new $850,000 collaboration between Kiwi and UK scientists.
Nurse guilty over missing painkillers
Nurse who was sacked from Auckland's North Shore Hospital has been found guilty over missing morphine-like pain pills.
$1.5m plea to prevent baby deaths
New Zealand's leading cot death expert will urge Health Minister Jonathan Coleman to fund safe sleep bassinets in a private meeting today.
Maternity mayhem brings call for limits
Behaviour by supporters of women in labour have prompted calls at one hospital delivery suite to limit the number of family members attending a birth.
Whooping cough outbreak avoided
Fast-acting parents are thought to have curbed the spread of whooping cough from a Christchurch primary school.
Multi-million dollar health fund announced
Applications for a share of a new $7.9 million research fund to improve the treatment of conditions like diabetes and asthma have opened.
'My autistic child is not a monster'
Parents of a 9-year-old boy have been threatened with prosecution unless they send him to a special boarding school 300km from their home.
Man kept like 'a caged animal'
Photos have revealed the squalid conditions in which an autistic man is being kept "like a caged animal" at a disability care unit in the Waikato.
Gibson: Ending seclusion should be top of list
No New Zealander is too disabled to belong in a family, to have a home and to be treated with dignity, yet this is exactly what is happening to Ashley Peacock.
Seclusion expert to investigate detention in New Zealand
The Human Rights Commission will bring an international expert to New Zealand to investigate the country's use of seclusion after repeatedly raising concerns.
Autistic man's case not the only one
The lack of clarity around patient seclusion has emerged after the Herald revealed the case of autistic man Ashley Peacock, who has been keep in isolation for years.
Mental health services at 'breaking point'
Statistics show the Canterbury District Health Board deals with 17 new adult walk-ins every day - adults who have never needed the help of mental health services before.
Abortion: More than a mother's body
Lizzie Marvelly is right; every woman should be able to make her own choices.
Govt puts $9.7m into Greymouth Hospital
The Government today top-up after subcontractor prices came back higher than expected.
Budget 2016: Extra $2.2 billion pumped into health
An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration.
Pain threshold on increase
Hundreds of patients are waiting for elective surgery and at some hospitals higher levels of pain are being demanded just to get on the list.
High cost, hurdles for medicinal cannabis
Families who have struggled through the bureaucratic red tape to gain permission to use medicinal cannabis say the costs remain too high a hurdle for too many.
Naughty nurse avoids being struck off
A nurse who made a false insurance claim and stole drugs has avoided being struck off the profession's register.
Wait times for surgery up by 80 days
Report finds 280,000 New Zealanders are waiting for elective surgery - with more than half of those people not even on official waiting lists.