The Green Party echoes the call from health professionals, medical bodies, and community organisations for Te Whatu Ora to urgently release the guidelines for gender affirming care. “It's inexplicable ...

Polypharmacy For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, ...

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The Prostate Cancer Foundation will continue the fight to save men’s lives after the Budget failed to fund an early detection pilot for prostate cancer. President Danny Bedingfield said “we have been ...

GWAS studies look for genetic associations between different traits. We identified 30 areas in the genome linked to OCD, containing 249 genes of interest in total. Of those, 25 genes stood out as ...

Passing sweeping changes to pay equity law under urgency is hugely concerning, the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) say. NZAC President Sarah Maindonald says the rushed the Pay Equity ...

Higher intakes of black tea, berries, citrus fruits and apples could help to promote healthy ageing, new research has found. This study conducted by researchers from Edith Cowan University, Queen’s ...

The New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) is deeply concerned by New Zealand First’s proposed Member’s Bill, which seeks to legally define “man” and “woman” solely based on biological sex.

Women who suffer from endometriosis have an increased risk of premature and early menopause, both naturally and surgically, University of Queensland researchers have found. A comprehensive ...

Bianca Yu enjoys an ocean dip and splits her time as a GP between Tawa Medical Centre and Whakamātūtū, a mental health recovery clinic in Pōneke Wellington ...

Health New Zealand has confirmed it will slash hundreds of IT jobs - about a third of all roles. Consultation on its proposal has finished, with the final cuts announced today. The health agency said ...

Taupō Hospital has become the first hospital in the North Island to receive accreditation to deliver Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) training, Health Minister Simeon Brown and ...