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86-year-old Francis was hospitalized 3 days ago on Wednesday.
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“Staff shortages across the sector have impacted care outcomes."
Can having a mobile phone in your pocket make you infertile?
A doctor has revealed the main reasons men may struggle with infertility.
Hospital staff to receive long-awaited unpaid backpay
Te Whatu Ora said it now expected payments to current staff to begin in July.
'Disturbing': Top brands review their TikTok ads after they appear next to distressing videos
Advertisers want better controls on young people viewing troubling mental health posts.
'Huge': Major cancer breakthrough could help patients avoid chemo
A ground-breaking blood test is being trialled in the UK.
Adored ballet teacher fights in hospital to make it to her 50th Jubilee show
Whether she was in hospital or not, the show had to go on, she said.
I was a healthy 39-year-old doctor – I never expected to get bowel cancer
Telegraph: Like so many of her patients, Dr Anisha Patel overlooked the warning signs.
1600 Te Whatu Ora jobs on chopping block as focus shifts to frontline care
Proposed changes will impact people who are in management and leadership roles.
The Last of Us: Human catches fungal disease from plant in world first
The first-of-a-kind discovery was made after a fungus expert fell sick.
As a doctor, I know being ready to die is an illusion
New York Times: If a loved one or a patient isn’t ready to die, how should we respond?
NZ faces a harsh whooping cough winter – what needs to happen
One in three infants not immunised against pertussis.
'It’s a massive problem': The barriers to timely endometriosis diagnosis
Research showed on average it took five GP visits over eight years to receive a diagnosis.
Is it time for free dental care in NZ?
Many people avoid dental care for decades because of the cost.
When I got cancer, my dreams told me what doctors could not
New York Times opinion: As soon as I woke up from the dream, I called my doctor.
Rare Disorders Month is ending - but it's a continual everyday battle for whānau
March has been a month of reflection, but the mahi must go on.
'A tough road to navigate': A painful personal journey of endometriosis
Endometriosis has been described by some as a condition sometimes considered "invisible."
Greens call for universal Covid vax availabilty after nearly 2500 children hospitalised
The Green Party is calling for the Covid-19 vaccine to be made universally available.
Just 3pc of $500m ‘drawn down’ to improve or build mental health facilities
Only $15m has been approved so far.
Weird symptom that led to mum's ‘shock’ diagnosis
She’s warning others that her weird symptom can be a clue about a deadly condition.
1.4 million doses of vaccine to be destroyed by the end of the week
780,000 people had not taken up the chance of a second booster.
Number of children waiting for mental health support more than triples
There is a 'higher-than-national-average rate' of children receiving support in the Bay.
Gynaecologists scrutinised by health watchdog for inadequate consent
Both women will receive apologies for the inadequate consent provided by the clinicians.
The teen mental health crisis: A reckoning for Big Tech
Financial Times: 'Multiple juries are in. They’re all reaching the same conclusion.'
'He'll never work again': Morphine overdose leads to brain injury
A throat cancer patient was pumped with so much morphine his brain was deprived of oxygen.
Covid-19 latest: 76 virus-related deaths, 11,258 new cases in last week
Of the new cases, 4712 were reinfections.
Opinion: If men got cancer from their contraception there would be a solution by now
A new study found hormonal contraception increased breast cancer risk by 25 per cent.
Disease X: Are we ready for the next pandemic?
Times: Covid-19 was this era’s Disease X. What will be the next?
Tropical holidays could improve your mental health, even if you get Bali Belly, say scientists
Scandinavian researchers deployed an unorthodox study to show the benefits of winter sun.
Healthcare and aroha being choppered to rural communities
Seeing the need through a cultural lens critical to mission’s success.
Exclusive: Heart surgery patients caught in delays, being sent to other hospitals
An investigation is under way after a patient died while on the wait list.
Explained: What to know ahead of NZ’s next ‘big boost’ against Covid-19
The new bivalent booster is available from April 1. Jamie Morton answers five questions.
Otūmoetai Health Centre to get multimillion-dollar makeover
Improvements to be made to reception, patient waiting areas and nursing treatment rooms.