Back to basics call to fight bug threat
Hospital wards need to be redesigned to provide urgently needed defences against the spread of deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Hospital wards need to be redesigned to provide urgently needed defences against the spread of deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Carmel Berry feels like she has been "sitting on a barbed wire fence" for almost a decade since having an operation to repair a prolapsed uterus.
A midwife who stopped monitoring a baby during birth against instruction from an obstetrician has been ordered to apologise to the infants mother over his death.
A registered nurse looked up the medical records of her former husband's new partner more than 40 times.
Thousands of critically ill or unconscious patients have been enrolled without their consent in clinical trials to test treatments in New Zealand hospitals.
St John is failing to get to emergency callouts in Auckland and some rural areas inside the time limits set for it, according to an internal report aimed at improving its service.
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.
Working at the hospice reminds you of what life is about - being with the people you love and who love you the most.
New Zealanders whose lives have been blighted by the dangers of legal highs are thrilled by plans to pull them from sale within a fortnight.
A nurse bequeathed $315,000 by an elderly couple who she cared for has been cleared of unethical behaviour by the health watchdog.
Staff at East Tamaki Healthcare general practices have been donning wigs, wings, hula skirts and decorating clinics to encourage patients to take more notice of their health.
An Auckland doctor training to be an anaesthetist has been censured, suspended from practice and charged with misconduct over her struggles with alcohol.
Labour will roll out a nationwide bowel cancer screening programme within three years if it is elected, leader David Cunliffe announced this afternoon.
A rural doctor has been found guilty of professional misconduct for giving women drugs to induce abortions.
Many Kiwi couples trying to conceive are ignorant of the risks to their fertility through delayed childbearing, smoking, alcohol and being overweight, research shows.
Family and friends commented on what beautiful skin Elliott Gulliver had when she was born - unaware of the jaundice her olive skin was masking.
Poor old bowel cancer has struggled to grab headlines for many years, write Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons.
Jason Tamaiti Kihi Phillips admits he was one of those guys who was too shy to ask for medical help until it was nearly too late.
Shayle Pilcher admits to having slept in the same bed with at least one of her babies - by accident and through sheer exhaustion.
Health Minister Tony Ryall will retire from politics at the next election to take up employment in the private sector.
Public health authorities are working to prevent a measles outbreak after 19 students from an Auckland high school contracted the disease.
Any weakening in the New Zealand dollar would provide the "cream on top" for medical device exporter Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.
Auckland's public health authority fears a highly infectious measles virus may be starting to spread in the city independently of imported cases of the disease.
Report exposing flaws in Counties Manukau maternity care prompts Govt call for action.
Extra nurses and doctors were on duty to help shift vulnerable newborn babies as part of a major relocation of services at Middlemore Hospital.