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Beaches still risky, health officials warn

Public health officers are warning parents to closely watch children - and look out for toxic sea slugs - on Hauraki Gulf beaches.

Rheumatic fever: NZ's third world illness

Shot student wants to help NZ hospital

Review of prostate screening

GPs still worried about Labtests problems, Auckland survey shows

Swine flu down but still a risk

'Check at 40' for prostate cancer

Dramatic fall in heart surgery waiting times

Rat poison discovered in dead penguins

Traces of the rat poison, Brodifacoum, have been found in two little blue penguins that died in the Hauraki Gulf.

Flesh-eating bug cases treble in NZ hospitals

The number of patients in New Zealand hospitals attacked by "flesh-eating" bugs has trebled since 1990.

DoC looked at delaying poison drop

The head of the Department of Conservation said rat poison drops on two Hauraki Gulf islands should be delayed over public concerns.

Labtests staff not cleared to work

Five of the pathologists listed on Labtests' website are not fully registered to practise medicine in NZ.

<i>Thomas Neitzert</i>: Labtests swap a classic case of project mismanagement

Labtests on notice to fulfil contract

Labtests has been told it is not meeting the requirements of its $190,000-a-day contract and needs to "lift its act" quickly.

Labtests warned: Improve, or else

New team at top for Labtests

New managers and doctors have moved into top roles at Labtests in a bid to control the failures that have plagued its first five weeks.

<i>Editorial:</i> Labtests must deliver after decisive move

<i>David Skegg:</i> Screening programme triumph of preventive medicine