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Editorial: cvnznews.com ARE WE WATCHING THE QUIET UNRAVELLING OF NEW ZEALAND’S SOCIAL‑CARE SAFETY NET? For more than a century, faith‑based…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com Labour’s promise to guarantee jobs for graduate nurses has been welcomed by the aged‑care sector — but leaders…
Colin Ambler/cvnznews.com Labour has unveiled a major election pledge to guarantee every New Zealand‑trained graduate nurse a job in the…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com IS HEALTH NZ QUIETLY REBUILDING THE SOCIAL‑CARE LANDSCAPE? Health New Zealand has stripped home‑support contracts from Visionwest, Lifewise,…
Marta Iraola Iribarren/Euronews People with good vascular health may gain extra dementia-free years, new research suggests. Having normal blood pressure,…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com New Zealand’s flu vaccination programme is set for a major expansion, with more than 260,000 children aged six…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com Labour is accusing the Government of presiding over a “health failure”, pointing to more than 185,000 understaffed nursing…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com Just months after cvnznews.com exposed the experiences of New Zealand women being told to “just get pregnant” as…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com New Zealand politics is not short on health promises — but it is short on health plans that…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com A fresh round of political promises over the South Island’s economic future has injected energy into an already…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com Hawke’s Bay got a rare win this week — the kind that reminds New Zealanders the health system…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com How is this still happening in New Zealand? A major new study has revealed that one‑third of people…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com For years, New Zealand’s health system has been defined by a familiar tension: world‑class clinicians working inside ageing…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com New Zealand will struggle to fix its overcrowded hospitals unless it strengthens primary care, says one of the…
You may share more than the kitchen with your flatmates: people who live together share parts of their oral and…
Mark Whitely/BikePush.com Forget the idea of a slow decline. Science shows aging hits in sharp bursts, with major shifts around…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com Health NZ has confirmed a number of Covid‑19 cases among patients at Porirua’s Kenepuru Hospital. Robert Blaikie, interim…
Colin Ambler/cvnznews.com Genspect New Zealand says the tide has turned on the acceptability of puberty blockers and cross‑sex hormones for…
ByMarta Iraola Iribarren/Euronews Women who take GLP-1 medications, such as Ozempic or Mounjaro, are less likely to develop breast cancer,…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com The Government has confirmed the regions that will host clinical training for the University of Waikato’s new medical…
By Marta Iraola Iribarren/Euronews A new AI-designed vaccine capable of protecting against entire families of viruses could transform how the…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com General practitioners say a Government plan to freeze doctors’ fees for 12 months is a political reaction to…
By Colin Ambler/cvnznew.com Health Minister Simeon Brown has announced that paramedics will soon gain prescribing rights, a move he says…
By Shobha Shukla /CNS (Citizen News Service) This year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day (observed May 28) as well International Day of…
By Colin Ambler/cvnznews.com Patients in the King Country will now be able to access cancer treatment closer to home, with…
By John Stonestreet/Breakpoint.org Trans activists loudly claim that medicalizing gender confused youth is “settled science” and saves lives. This is…
By Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com. The Government’s drive to speed up diagnosis and treatment across the health system has taken another step…
By Colin/Ambler/cvnznews.com New Zealand’s cancer patients are set to benefit from one of the largest expansions of community‑based treatment in…
By Marta Iraola Iribarren/Euronews Health Correspondent. The chronic condition could cost OECD countries billions per year, with the total comparable to…
New Zealand family doctors report that rising fuel costs are causing patients to miss appointments and have difficulty affording medications.…
Pharmac is facing mounting pressure from frontline pharmacists who say New Zealanders are being left in the dark as the…
A breakdown on todays Fuel Crisis Stories by Colin Ambler/cvnznews.comNo official supply figures were released today, but the Government maintains…