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Health Minister Tony Ryall has distanced himself from criticism of the impact of his call for fewer committees providing advice to the Ministry of Health.

Concerns have been raised in an independent report, and by experts and providers, about the sustainability of a national breast-screening service. Elspeth McLean reports.

New breast-screening television commercials to air next month will be aimed at Maori and Pacific women.

Poor leadership and a "watered-down" monitoring process are undermining New Zealand's breast screening programme, University of Otago associate Prof Brian Cox says.

Two Criminal Minds episodes which screened on TV One this year were too violent for their 8.30pm time slot, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has found.

Broadcaster TVWorks has been ordered to pay a recycling company almost $14,000 and the Crown $3000 in costs after an item on Campbell Live alleged the company's plant was unsanitary and rat-infested.

Pressure is building on television networks to reduce the amount of sleaze in early prime time.

A One News report of Clayton Weatherston's murder trial has been found to breach broadcasting standards relating to good taste and decency, children's interests and violence.