Employers should consider letting tired staff sleep on the job in order to raise their performance, researchers say.Scientists at the Massey University Sleep/Wake Research Centre are studying the effectiveness of short naps in…
Five-year-old twins are being hailed as heroes by their family after they walked 3.5km to raise the alarm after their father, a diabetic, collapsed at the back of their Waitahuna, Clutha, farm.”Dad went to sleep and we went home…
LONDON - At least one in four heavy, long-term smokers who do not quit will develop the deadly lung disease COPD, Danish scientists said on Tuesday.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema…
Cancer specialists will advise Pharmac on giving Herceptin to some breast cancer patients for just nine weeks, instead of the more established year-long treatment.”I think it’s a possible path ahead,” an Auckland specialist, Associate…
Chris Jones received the news on Christmas Eve that he had prostate cancer.The Christchurch financial planner had been training for the Coast to Coast multisport event when a health check found a cause for concern.Further…
Each new statement about Herceptin leads to articles hailing it as the miracle cure for breast cancer, and is guaranteed to prompt yet another patient to ask me when it will be subsidised in New Zealand.[The government drug-funding…
Pathologists have joined the growing number of professional and sector groups critical of the way district health boards are compromising community health by putting laboratory services at risk.New Zealand Association of Pathology…
LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co. said today it is putting limits on the calorie, fat and sugar it will allow in packaged foods it markets to children using the faces of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.The move comes amid…
Four more people at Christchurch’s Princess Margaret Hospital are infected with the deadly bug which has killed three people since September 29, tests have revealed.Up to 60 staff and patients of the hospital’s Ward 3A were tested…
A decision on the Medical Protection Society’s application to be heard during a judicial review into the awarding by the Auckland region’s three health boards of laboratory testing contracts to Labtests has been reserved.The group…