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Early birds can get flu shots

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Sewage in creek blamed for campground bug

First NZ patients receive new prostate cancer treatment

Hospitals propose preferential treatment

Two DHBs propose to offer public hospital patients the option of paying for treatment that is not funded by the public health system.

<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Time to start paying parents of disabled

Bay of Plenty shellfish warning continues

Sea slug study can't find cash

Toxic sea slugs could be living in the waters around New Zealand but money to study them is proving harder to find than the slugs themselves.

Pay parents of disabled adults, says tribunal

Parents win disabled care case

Parents who care for severely disabled adult children should be eligible to receive payments, a tribunal has ruled.

Doctors in Aussie issue to be raised

Eight Northland beach streams polluted

<i>Cartoon</i>: It'll soon be raining Kiwi doctors

<i>Editorial</i>: Rule change plays into NZ doctors' hands

Broadcaster eyes rest home buyout

Willie Jackson's urban authority wants to negotiate to buy a troubled rest home tagged for closure at the end of the month.

Power of reason reaching smokers