Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) begins next Monday 23 September. This year’s theme is 'Community is… what we create together', focusing on the power of community in uplifting our collective ...

People with untreated ADHD are having their lives cut short by an average of 13 years, yet the worst affected are the least ...

Aspiring Medical Centre: We are a busy and growing rural general practice in beautiful Wanaka. As well as serving our enrolled population of over 7000 patients, we provide quality medical care to the ...

The crisis in aged care is not limited to New Zealand. The Australian government has just completed a review of the sector and adopted the aged care taskforce’s 23 recommendations. One major change is ...

However, there is a way to alleviate the capacity problems in Whanganui: support GPs to do more and better work. The New Zealand Herald reported this week that Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora has ...

In what is a first in Aotearoa, Dunedin will host the inaugural Taurite Tū games, bringing kaumātua – older Māori adults – from around New Zealand together to celebrate this nationwide programme for ...

A majority of frontline doctors polled by Specialty Trainees of New Zealand (STONZ), a union for Resident Medical Officers (RMOs), are reporting serious concerns about the impact of cost pressures on ...

Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and ...

Breast Cancer Foundation NZ is calling on Pharmac to widen access to Keytruda in light of new incontrovertible evidence that the treatment will save the lives of women with early-stage triple negative ...

Prostate cancer consultations are common in primary care and there is no one approach to testing and treatment that fits all patients. Urologist Simon van Rij discusses the key considerations and ...

Of our 201 research participants, 12.9% had a genetic variant identified as “causal”. A further 15.9% had variants defined as ...

A Cabinet paper from Budget 2024 released last week shows a $138 million Te Whatu Ora IT project, which was supposed to modernise the commissioning and payments systems for publicly funded health ...