Subsidised GP visits for middle-aged patients could be back on track after progress in talks today.Around 700,000 people aged between 45 and 64 are due to benefit from the reduced fees once the Government ploughs in another $110…
It is more critical than which baby foods to buy and more urgent than which school to choose.Few issues provoke fiercer debate among new parents than whether babies should be given a dummy to stop them crying.Health professionals…
The Government is to invest $1.27 million in clinical trials of a potentially ground-breaking drug for Parkinson’s disease.Approval of the second phase of clinical trials of MitoQ was granted last week, and screening for the 120…
New Zealanders travelling overseas - including those heading to Germany for the Football World Cup - are being warned to ensure their immunisations are up to date after outbreaks of measles in Germany, Australia and Fiji.
Health Minister Pete Hodgson has told his officials to draw up plans to get soft drinks out of schools by 2008.It is the latest salvo in the Government’s battle against a looming health crisis from obesity-related illnesses.Officials…
The Waitemata District Health Board is routinely refusing to see heart patients and others deemed disabled or sick enough to need hospital care.It blames a lack of money for elective surgery and assessments, and also blames the…
The Government likes to give the impression that it is steadily reducing the cost of seeing a doctor for everyone. It has grouped general practices into PHOs (primary health organisations) and aims to fund them for the number of people…
More than 2500 junior doctors in public hospitals intend to strike for five days next month over working hours.Resident Doctors’ Association general secretary Deborah Powell said last night that the strike would take place from…
Insurance companies’ guidelines will be getting a shake-up in the way they deal with customers’ human rights after an increase in complaints.The guidelines - initially published in 1997 - were to help insurers to comply with anti-discrimination…
Doctors will transplant a face but whose? (USA Today) Doctors, psychiatrists and ethicists at the Cleveland Clinic are poised to perform the world’s first full-face transplant, removing an entire face, both ears and a full head of hair from a brain-dead donor and attaching them in one piece to a recipient who will be left […]