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Elective surgery postponed after power failure
All elective surgery has been postponed at Auckland and Starship Hospitals as technicians scramble to fix a back-up power failure at Auckland and Starship hospitals.
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Christchurch earthquake: 'Warzone' hospital aims to prevent health crisis
An Australian army field hospital is set to be turned into a community health centre as authorities work to prevent a medical crisis in Christchurch.
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Christchurch earthquake: Hospitals cope with waves of injured
Christchurch hospitals are busy but coping as patient numbers swell from the earthquake.
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Christchurch quake: Hospitals in north take in casualties
North Island hospitals are receiving Christchurch earthquake victims and plan to send specialists to help in the devastated city.
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Three fold increase in doctors heading to Oz - recruiters
A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.
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Success: Health guinea pigs now lead world
Reforms helped create IT systems that are envied by other countries.
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Friends pay tribute to food poisoning victim on Facebook
Friends have spoken of their grief after the death of Sarah Carter, the 23-year-old new Zealander who died from food poisoning in Thailand at the weekend, on a Facebook tribute page.
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Poisoned woman dies on OE
A dream OE has turned to tragedy for three young NZ women after food poisoning killed one and left the other two in hospital.
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Middlemore staff caught dirty handed by survey
More than a third of health workers fail to clean their hands every time they should, a snapshot of 10 Middlemore wards indicates.
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Search for families of 'forgotten souls'
Oregon's state mental hospital is trying to match surviving relatives with 3,500 people whose cremated remains were once stacked away in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."
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TV Eye: Brains of the operation
Yes, it's interesting in there, inside your skull. It is also a place that is still being explored, and the more the map of the brain is explored, the greater the leaps in medical science.