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Explosion: 'I think they were sniffing petrol'
A horrific explosion burning two teens was caused by a cigarette and petrol fumes.
A horrific explosion burning two teens was caused by a cigarette and petrol fumes.
Player who collapsed at World Masters Games is a relative of Rieko and Akira Ioane.
People with broken bones are facing agonising delays to have surgery because of an unprecedented number of patients.
Middlemore Hospital will receive cannabis products from medical marijuana company Tilray, it was revealed today.
Ministry to "review its position" on financial penalties to DHBs for strike-induced surgery delays.
Unionised resident doctors are reported to be working through the strike at some hospitals.
Doctors' strike at 18 DHBs to disrupt care for thousands of patients
Kiwis' use of antibiotics has soared, indicating widespread inappropriate use for viral coughs and colds, experts say.
Two investigations are under way into the suspected suicide of a mental health patient who had fled a psychiatric hospital and was missing for weeks.
The preliminary list of members who will serve on the Auckland region's three DHBs has been released.
Private obstetrician says elective caesarean a good option for many women
The Ministry of Health has defended its stance on refusing to fund a Maori safe-sleeping device.
Rates significantly higher in two health districts: Counties Manukau and Northland.
Some 500 DHB staff have walked off the job today in protest of what they've described as an "over-stretched workforce" that's putting patients at risk.
Health professionals are walking off the job in Auckland this week in protest against "an over-stretched workforce unable to meet its patients' needs".
Private medical notes about 90 patients - including details of a woman suffering mental illness after childbirth - were stolen from a social worker's car.
South Auckland is to have a new facility built for patients suffering acute mental illness, at a cost of $53.6 million.
Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.
The threat of a potentially fatal superbug is growing, and infection control officials cannot see any let-up.
More than a third of health workers fail to clean their hands every time they should, a snapshot of 10 Middlemore wards indicates.