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Gas leak: residents urged to curb gas use
Vector Energy says it's identified the source of the leak, but it's going to be a slow process to fix the pipeline. The company says removing gas from the line could cause an explosion..

Number of ageing patients set to soar
Primary health care in Waikato faces future where demand outstrips resources, DHB told.

Leaky public hospital could be first of many
Mason Clinic needs extensive remedial work including recladding and reroofing.

Dana Delany takes her new role dead seriously
Dana Delany talks to Jacqueline Smith about playing a doctor who cares more for the dead than the living.

TV Pick of the week: Monroe
James Nesbitt has a distinct advantage when playing brilliant neurosurgeon Gabriel Monroe.

Mental health workers protest against assaults
Health workers have presented management of a mental health facility with a vote of no confidence after hundreds of assaults by patients.

Drinker survives hand sanitiser binge
A man who drank six bottles of hand sanitiser while being treated in hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the antibacterial gels to be better secured.

Nurse's affair with patient's husband
The patient, a mum of two, had a severe stroke which left her virtually unable to talk.

NZ deaths lead to new drug - 40 years later
An American doctor has finally produced a drug which offers a solution to the problems which killed patients in several New Zealand hospitals 40 years ago.