10 April 2019

The Labour-led coalition government is calling its 2019 Budget the “Wellbeing Budget”

GPs often worry there are risks in treating patients to achieve a low level of “bad” cholesterol – but they can be reassured, says senior endocrinologist Richard O’Brien

DHBs have had their day, says a former New Zealand health lead­er and GP of 35 years, Jonathan Simon

Health care homes are on a roll and set to be part of the solution for the country’s strained health system, primary care leader Jeff Lowe says

“Tummy trouble” in patients with psychological symptoms deserves to be taken seriously, as their mental distress may, in part, be caused by undiagnosed physical disease

Coeliac New Zealand says heightened anxiety, depression, “brain fog” and fatigue are some­times the clue to the fact a per­son has coeliac disease

Without public donations, the medical centre treating home­less people at the Auckland City Mission “would go broke within a week” says mission chief exec­utive Chris Farrelly

Many New Zealanders aren’t reporting dog attacks because they don’t want to dob in family or friends, Auckland DHB emergency registrar Natasha Duncan-Sutherland says

Biologics are starting to have a major impact on Kiwi patients, but spending on them has risen by more than $70 million in a few years

Transcranial magnetic stimula­tion – it sounds, and looks, like something from the realms of science fiction, but two Auck­land psychiatrists believe it could provide new hope for pa­tients with treatment-resistant depression