Psychiatrist Selwyn Leeks should have been prevented from practising in 1977, the Medical Council says, as part of its apology to victims of Dr Leeks’ unmodified paediatric electroconvulsive therapy.
Child immunisation rates have failed to recover following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, amid increasing evidence of vaccine hesitancy, particularly among Māori whānau.
Dental public health specialist Rob Beaglehole has taken on a new role for DHBs to seek a sugar industry levy, a policy rejected by governments dating back to Helen Clark’s
The National Hauora Coalition has closed its Hamilton and Auckland offices today for Matariki, which will from next June be marked by an annual public holiday
A general practice co-owner says COVID vaccination clinics in primary care have been asked to slow their vaccination rates to “make it last” through the vaccine short-supply period
As the Wellington infection scare plays out, epidemiologist Michael Baker is calling for scanning with the COVID Tracer app to be made compulsory in high-risk places
The Government's health-reform planners are on the lookout for primary and community care networks to become prototypes for the new system to be based on localities
I used to fancy the idea of skiing Teds Alley. I loved the name, such a yeah-nah Kiwi moniker for the steep and committing gully beside the East Ridge of Mt Taranaki