After two years of debate, health officials are finally recommending that drugs containing codeine should only be available with a doctor's prescription. Doctors and pharmacists are split - they want to stamp out abuse but worry legitimate users......
The chief coroner has opened a joint inquiry into four deaths linked to the anti-epileptic medication Logem. Judge Deborah Marshall said she had to open a joint inquiry because of the high public interest in these cases and the effect on people's......
The Waitematā District Health Board admits it's dealt with several cases of inadequate patient consent last year but none in the past six months. The Nurses Organisation has accused North Shore Hospital of breaching women patients' rights......
North Shore Hospital is being accused of breaching patients' rights by allowing vaginal and uterine examinations without their knowledge or consent. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has confirmed the Health and Disability Commissioner......
The Department of Internal Affairs is defending the Hepatitis Foundation and says publicly shaming it does nothing to help the charity sector. It's also defended its decision not to publish a highly critical report, which was completed more than......
Researchers from Britain and New Zealand have built artificial neurons that could help people with conditions like Alzheimer's, certain types of heart failure, and other degenerative diseases. A team from the University of Bath used a combination......
A man is warning people to check their strawberries after his friend was taken to hospital when she had eaten some with glass in them. Adam Reeve purchased a punnet of strawberries from Pak 'N' Save Porirua yesterday afternoon. As they were......
A Northland primary school has achieved an almost complete measles vaccination rate by reassuring parents that the MMR vaccine is safe, contrary to an abundance of misleading information online. Ninety-seven percent of the mainly Māori students at......
A coroner says the death of an 11-year-old girl who crashed a motorbike at a friend's farm, reinforces the need for adults to supervise children using the machines. In September 2016, Jessica Robson, from Winton, was riding a 50cc motorbike around......
