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'Made my week': Cystic fibrosis sufferer gifted money by stranger

The donor wanted Troy Watson to 'go and have fun' with his friends or family.

Auckland hospital 'imploding': Patient with typhoid fever slept in car due to lack of beds

Hospitals around NZ are being hit by a perfect storm of issues.

6369 new Covid cases in the community, 13 deaths

The seven-day average of new community cases is about 1000 down on a week ago.

Two hurt - one seriously - in Parnell apartment fire

Fire and Emergency received "multiple calls" about a fire in the three-storey building.

Targeted funding to improving Māori health outcomes announced

Ministers have outlined a range of funding to assist Māori health and economic wellbeing.

Hit-and-run survivor returns to finish race across US - with surgeons who saved him

Five years on from the hit and run, Nick Ashill is returning to finish his ultra marathon.

Thomas Coughlan: Is the health budget really failing Māori?

Does the health budget hurt Māori or is it the biggest win in a generation?

Sick baby may have lived if he wasn't sent home from emergency department

The baby died two days after being sent home from a half-hour ED visit.

Gang house drive-by shooting: Police reportedly find 44 bullet casings in driveway

It comes after rising fears over gun violence and gang turf wars.

In Her Head: Woman's life-threatening endometriosis delays

Paris' life-threatening endometriosis diagnosis and surgery delays, with wait times up to three years. Video / NZ Herald

Life-threatening endometriosis delays, surgery wait times up to three years

On average, women in NZ wait 8.7 years from onset symptoms to be formally diagnosed.

'We live in a man's world': NZ lags behind other countries in women's health

"When we look at systems of all sorts around the world we see inequality for women."

Doctors told her she was just overweight - turns out, she had ovarian cancer

'Something needs to change, you can't just push it away as women's problems.'

'Women let down by system': ACC pays out $27m to women harmed by health treatment

'There are so many areas that could be improved to better [women's] outcomes," GP says.

'Just part of being a woman': How our health system ignores and neglects female patients - and what can be done about it

'I kept thinking maybe I'm just being weak, maybe I just need to harden up...'

Christchurch Hospital staff punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed

Patients taking their frustration out on the very people they have asked for help.

'I can't even walk properly': Mum's $30K loan for hysterectomy to end pain

Her pain was so bad she would regularly faint at work.

'Get pregnant, that'll fix your problems': Mum's endometriosis fight - for 20 years

Dallas was accused of being a drug seeker for repeatedly turning up to ED in pain.