17 March 2021

In these days of bloggers, social media, citizen journalists and fake news, it can be hard to spot a bona fide journalist

Vaccination against COVID-19 for GPs, nurses, swabbing-station staff and others on the primary care front lines settled into a steady routine after a rocky start

The staff at Manurewa’s Greenstone Family Clinic were in celebratory mood after getting their first COVID-19 vaccinations on Sunday, 7 March

Medsafe is encouraging health professionals to report suspected adverse events from COVID-19 vaccination

Public health advocates who sued blogger Whale Oil for defama¬tion saw the trial end abruptly in settlement and a payout early this month

Auckland neurologist Cynthia Sharpe no longer believes Pharmac’s assuranc¬es that its 2019 funding switch from one brand of epilepsy drug to another was safe

The Primary Health Alliance has called it quits after 15 years

The Government is a few months away from making decisions on the proposed Māori Health Authority as part of wider health changes

The diversity of primary healthcare nursing from practice to prison nursing, and older adult to refugee nursing was celebrated at a sym¬posium in Christchurch this month

Managed isolation nurses’ families have been banned from golf clubs, had barbecue invites spurned and strug¬gled to see a dentist, reports nursing researcher Isabel Jamieson