The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the ...

New Zealand First has introduced a Member’s Bill which aims to improve access to palliative care for all New Zealanders, ...

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Physician associates, also known as physician assistants or PAs, must be supervised by a doctor, but the supervision can be done at arm’s length and the supervising clinician does not have to be in ...

With ministers making decisions based on dubious evidence, such as Casey Costello’s controversial approval of heated tobacco products, the role of science in government seems increasingly sidelined.

Health Minister Dr Shane Reti will travel to Manila this weekend, leading New Zealand’s delegation to the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Regional Committee Meeting. “Significant health ...

WHO has been sounding the alarm on the risk of emerging infectious diseases like cholera resurfacing in Lebanon as a result of poor water and sanitation conditions and the impact of the current ...

Cases of Covid-19 are up on last week, as a new, highly transmissible subvariant XEC arrives in in New Zealand. There have been 886 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the week to ...

Years of underfunding general practices and limits on increasing patient charges have resulted in many practices closing, reducing their services, or not taking on new patients. Financial stresses and ...

The report explains that Pharmac’s current funding model is a cost utility analysis (CUA), which is a subset of cost effectiveness analysis. In this, Pharmac weighs up the direct healthcare costs and ...

Free dental clinics in the Whanganui region have been swamped by whānau who say oral health care has been out of their reach ...

Continuous monitors track blood glucose levels 24 hours a day through a sensor just under your skin, replacing finger-prick testing. They are widely funded and used overseas. The monitors alert users ...