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Supplement makers step ahead of the law
The bad guys are always one step ahead. That was the reality with party pills and it is much the same with illicit fitness supplements.
The bad guys are always one step ahead. That was the reality with party pills and it is much the same with illicit fitness supplements.
The supplement salesman who won't lie about pre-workouts: "They have stupidly toxic amounts of caffeine. It drives you mental so you train like a crackhead."
An exercise supplement containing a banned psychoactive substance was still available for sale yesterday despite Ministry of Health officials deciding it should be pulled from shelves.
Herald investigation shows makers of pre-workout supplements are always trying new tricks to beat government bans.
Watch our undercover investigation: Pre-gym supplement Frenzy found to contain unsafe psychoactive substance that's chemically related to ingredient of party pills.
Two investigations are under way after botched home circumcisions resulted in 10 boys being taken to hospital - one of whom required surgical treatment.
Kiwis are getting healthier, but New Zealand still faces serious health issues, especially in the most deprived areas.
It's ten years today since smoking was banned in bars, but Maori are still more likely to smoke than Europeans. We map where the ethnic smoking gap lies.
About 200 cruise ship passengers have been confined to their cabins after the norovirus bug struck the Dawn Princess while on a trip around New Zealand.
New Zealand and Australia have abandoned efforts to establish a joint therapeutic products regulator.
NZ medics will be sent to Sierra Leone to work with Ebola patients as part of a joint Anzac effort with Australia.
Ordering nicotine-based e-cigarette products off the shelves is "ridiculous", says a health official and respected anti-smoking campaigner.
A discredited claim that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism and bowel disease could be the reason for the spread of measles in the latest outbreak.
Personal medical records - including prescription history, laboratory results and personal details - will soon be made available online to patients and their health care professionals.
A taxpayer-funded South Auckland disability support provider which received $30 million last year is investigating its own accounts.
Three patients lost their lives after St John's life-saving defibrillators failed in a blunder linked to the ambulance service's poor record keeping.
The Government will ban all synthetic drugs within two weeks until they can be proven to be low-risk, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has revealed.
When media report the method in which somebody ends their own life, it can result in copycat suicide, the Law Commission says.
Health officials are concerned clusters of the harmful H1N1 virus, responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic, are appearing unseasonably early.
The Ministry of Health has written to school principals advising them to ensure all pupils, parents and staff are immunised against measles as an outbreak threatens to sweep the country.