Southern Cross Health Trust has made a three-year commitment to fund key nursing positions at the Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch City Missions, supporting vital healthcare for those most in ...

It is not as headline-grabbing, but investing in long-term social media education for young people instead of pursuing a blanket ban for under-16s will reap better results. So says the New Zealand ...

Otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon Francis T. Hall discusses the evaluation of thyroid nodules, which primarily aims to determine the likelihood of malignancy. He then reviews the treatment of ...

The BMA has shared “heartbreaking” stories from GPs who are struggling to find any or enough work in the NHS, as the unemployment crisis in general practice deepens. Speaking at the UK Local Medical ...

Health Coalition Aotearoa strongly supports Dr Ayesha Verrall’s new Tobacco Transparency Bill, launched this week, which - if supported by a majority of MPs - will help protect public health policy ...

Pharmac is funding more medicines for people with skin cancer (melanoma), from 1 June 2025. The decision includes widening access to pembrolizumab (branded as Keytruda) and funding dabrafenib (branded ...

Leading life and health insurer AIA NZ today released its second latest Claims Compass, reporting $829.6M in total claims paid for the year ended 31 December 2024 – a $95M increase on the previous ...

A groundbreaking international study, with involvement from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has identified four distinct stages associated with the global growth of Inflammatory Bowel Disease ...

Almost half of schools across Aotearoa New Zealand have a specialist vape store within a 10-minute walk, despite recent legislation aimed at preventing this. New research, which overlays vape stores ...

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) has released the Aotearoa New Zealand Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease 2024, ...

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has warned her 2025 “Growth Budget” will be “one of the tightest budgets in a decade”, with plans to reduce spending by billions. It’s clear New Zealand is following a ...