Dialysis patient targets taxi treatment
A dialysis patient is refusing medical treatment until issues with an Auckland taxi company, which transports patients to and from their appointments, are sorted.
A dialysis patient is refusing medical treatment until issues with an Auckland taxi company, which transports patients to and from their appointments, are sorted.
A school principal is considering lodging a complaint with the Medical Council after a boy was accidentally given a Gardisal injection.
Health experts want to target boys from the age of 11 who identify as gay to be first for vaccinating against genital warts and a range of cancers.
Charging $3 for a 20-minute hospital visit is profiting from people's suffering, says Scott McGill.
Heavy users of a group of pain medicines prescribed to nearly 400,000 New Zealanders a year have been warned about its links to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Hospital carpark operators charging the same as spots in the CBD have been accused of "making money out of misery".
Northland doctor Lance O'Sullivan says his upbringing helped drive his efforts to lift the quality of healthcare for Maori.
Given most of this food is high in sugar, fat and salt, it is another milestone on the march to our collective doom, writes Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons.
In an unprecedented peek behind the closed doors of NZ's hospital wards, a junior doctor reveals the delays, duplication and waste that she says are compromising the provision of good health care.
The mother of a 3-year-old boy with severe clubfoot is overwhelmed by the generosity of the community after her son received a new pair of winter pyjamas as part of an appeal.
Hundreds of health workers are being bitten, head-butted and assaulted while they look after sick, injured and distressed patients.
Tens of thousands of Aucklanders have had to wait longer than they should to see a doctor for serious injuries and illnesses at the region's emergency departments.
Julia Townsend gave birth to all three of her children by caesarean but wishes she had been able to deliver them all naturally.
Older mothers and women wanting more control of their lives are responsible for the growing rate of New Zealand children being born by caesarean section each year.
Research into infertility, healthy eating and the cause of allergies are among health studies to receive more than $58 million this year.
University of Otago researchers poring over blood samples uncovered a trend in adult New Zealanders that rattled health officials.
Help is on the way for new mothers suffering from severe mental illnesses.
Meegan Hirst struggled with mental illnesses after the births of her second and third babies. The 43-year-old Te Atatu Peninsula woman's boys are now 17, 16 and 2.
Patients in closed mental health wards at Waitemata District Health Board are allowed out for cigarettes as a reward for good behaviour, a patient alleges.
On any number of counts, the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill represents a particularly sorry piece of law-making.
Parents from some low-income Auckland suburbs face paying up to $25 for young children to see a doctor at an after-hours clinic.
Sending badly injured children to the wrong hospital may be contributing to a child death rate from injuries that is twice the rate of Australia's.
Up to 1000 people could die of the human form of "mad cow" disease through infected blood given to them in British hospitals, ministers have been told.
When little Lewis Railton was nearly killed by a rare and deadly stroke, his parents knew the road to recovery wouldn't be smooth.
St John has admitted an initiative to replace ambulances with single-crew vehicles has backfired, resulting in longer waits for some patients.
The Govt finds itself without any tools to combat the rising tide of dietary diseases, and this is undermining its ability to meet its own health goals, writes Sue Kedgley.
On what should have been his fifth wedding anniversary, Praveen Halappanavar was instead at a coroner's court, hearing a jury deliver a verdict of medical misadventure in the death of his wife.