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Doctors are being warned to be on alert for people with symptoms of dengue fever as the number of cases in New Zealand surges. National Public Health Service physician Dr Sharon Sime told Midday ...
“This new facility marks a significant step forward for urgent healthcare in Lower Hutt,” Mr Brown said. “Urgent care and after-hours services help ease pressure on hospital emergency departments by ...
“This involved shining light into the animals’ brains, allowing us to monitor brain cell activity over the day and night as the animals moved around freely. We could then look at how the activity of ...
More than four in 10 (43%) pregnant and breastfeeding women seeking treatment at Save the Children’s clinics in Gaza in July were malnourished, said Save the Children. Some breastfeeding mothers are ...
In Aotearoa, this tends to negatively and disproportionately impact Māori, and tāngata whaikaha Māori (Māori with lived experience of disability) especially. One of the consequences is that we often ...
More than 6,600 people so far across Southland and Otago have benefited from a nationwide programme called Comprehensive ...
The Te Waipounamu RN Prescribing in Community Health programme enables nurses across the South Island to prescribe common ...
Uploaded for your reading pleasure, the Cabinet documents released following the GP25 announcement of health minister Simeon Brown's quartet of primary care initiatives ...
Renee Taylor relates her experiences as a dysphagia-specialist speech-language therapist working in aged care. She looks at what can be done to minimise risks and enhance quality of life for ...
The Government is proposing to replace NCEA with new national qualifications that ensure young people have the knowledge and ...
The UK Government aims to shift more care out of hospitals and into the community. But, as Jaimie Kaffash reports, its 10-year blueprint could fundamentally reshape general practice and challenge the ...
In a decision released today, deputy health and disability commissioner Vanessa Caldwell has found Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights ...