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Coromandel and Bay of Plenty shellfish warning

Death sparks inquiry into dementia care

Passengers sought from 'measles baby' flight

Virus-hit Waikato DHB restarts computers

Waikato DHB is re-starting computers in key locations after staff worked all-night battling a computer virus which crippled the organisation

DHB board member who questioned another's integrity suspended

Dr Suresh Vatsyayann was asked to withdraw comments made in an email and apologise to the Waikato board and management, but refused.

Computer virus cripples Waikato DHB

Waikato DHB is trying to keep as many people out of hospitals as possible while it tries to fix damage caused by the Conficka computer worm.

Search for passengers over measles scare

Ban on P ingredient at least a year away

A promised Government crackdown on the main ingredient in the drug P is likely to be at least a year away.

ACC chairman denies acting politically

ACC board chairman John Judge today rejected an allegation he had acted politically over levy proposals.

Average worker hit with $200 ACC levy hikes

The Govt's ACC levy increases are less than were recommended by the ACC board but still about $200 a year for an average income worker with a car.

Legionnaires outbreak in Canterbury

One person is dead and four others have fallen ill in a recent spate of cases of Legionnaires' Disease, which officials blame on potting mix.

'Charter for rapists' - critics savage ACC

Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"

Labtests admits faulty results

Parents fume over delay in home-care pay decision

Eight families who say they need help to look after their disabled children have been left waiting almost a year for a decision by the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Doctors fund war chest for pay fight

Health watchdog to look at warrant of fitness for doctors