A Kaikōura pharmacy owner has been fighting for a patient on opioid substitution to get his licence returned after he tested ...

The difference between Easter chocolate and regular chocolate is more about how we experience the flavour of chocolate – via ...

Members of the New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine Nicky Burwood and Joan Ingram examine travellers’ knowledge and risk ...

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Lucid dreaming is a surreal phenomenon in which people are consciously aware that they are in a dream. Çağatay Demirel, from Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Medical ...

World Immunisation Week, celebrated in the last week of April, is an opportunity for parents and caregivers to ensure their children are up to date with their immunisations, Health Minister Simeon ...

The government has put out a multi-billion dollar plan for rebuilding hospitals it says are so run down patient care is being ...

Immunization efforts are under growing threat as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises, and funding cuts jeopardize progress and leave millions of children, adolescents, and adults at ...

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In a report released today, deputy health and disability commissioner Rose Wall has provided commentary on the care of a man with Parkinson's disease following a complaint to the HDC from a care home ...

More than 900 newly qualified health professionals are set to receive financial support to kick-start their careers, Health Minister Simeon Brown says. “The Government is committed to growing and ...