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Big Pharma eyes $7.2b for farm superbugs
Weaning animals from antibiotics in favor of vaccines has become central as resistant superbugs become more prevalent in public spaces.
Weaning animals from antibiotics in favor of vaccines has become central as resistant superbugs become more prevalent in public spaces.
Doctors hope a new monitoring system will give clearer figures on the impact of the Zika virus on New Zealand children.
Life-saving surgery only option for sick 2-year-old girl Elyse.
A leading New Zealand researcher may have found a powerful new weapon to combat deadly, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.
Treatment times for stroke victims remain well outside the recommended "golden hour" for reducing the risk of disability, a study has found.
Hand and face transplant surgeon Simon Talbot is back in his native New Zealand to tell a surgical conference about his pioneering work in the US.
COMMENT: It's important to sort the fact from the fiction when thinking what Natural Health Products Bill really means for consumers and the industry.
An emerging, highly drug-resistant yeast strain is causing potentially fatal infections in hospitalised patients around the world
Kiwi researcher helps discovers drug that could counter faulty gene.
The last time 11-year-old Auckland schoolboy Harris Barfoot saw his friend James Slyfield they were both in Starship hospital battling leukaemia.
A trial testing two commonly used antipsychotics could offer new hope to multiple sclerosis sufferers.
Claims that NZ scientists are being silenced is something seen around the world, says a renowned author, doctor and outspoken science commentator.
Dr Ben Goldacre believes bad science is fooling the public. He takes aim at everyone from anti-vaxxers to nutritionists to the scientific establishment.
Hundreds of patients are waiting for elective surgery and at some hospitals higher levels of pain are being demanded just to get on the list.
Two patients injured in clinical trials have fought with international drug companies for compensation, sparking a call for a return to cover by the ACC.
Mystery has enveloped the ginseng industry-the biggest customer for a small Canadian county has disappeared.
A team of Kiwi researchers have won funding to help tackle a mysterious protein that conspires against treatment for some forms of cancer.
Pike River widow Anna Osborne is set to self-medicate with medicinal marijuana - even if the move turns her into a criminal.
Most of the 120,000 casualties evacuated from Gallipoli were suffering from dysentery.
COMMENT: The cost and availability of expensive new medicines like Keytruda are still at risk from the TPP despite government assurances.
As a daughter who has watched her father lose his battle with cancer, I am empathetic to families who try to access cannabis products illegally, writes Michelle Dickinson.
An infant was given drugs 10 times stronger than they should have been after a pharmacy misread a prescription.
It sounds hollow, hypocritical and heartless every time National says that decisions on funding must be left to Pharmac, writes Audrey Young.
Remove the emotion from the debate, and there's been plenty of silly political point scoring on this, writes Barry Soper. Put yourself in the Pharmac's position.
Patients who have had miraculous results with melanoma drugs will join dying patients and their families to petition Govt to boost funding for Pharmac.
Govt aims to let drug be grown for medical or scientific use, but more change is needed, writes Alex Wodak.
A pain-free and revolutionary new way of fixing tooth decay in children is being rolled out by some district health boards.
Medical cannabis helped ease the suffering of a terminally ill teenager but did nothing to treat his epilepsy, a medical report says.