Health

Hepatitis C may be a debilitating illness, but there is new hope for sufferers through improved treatments, the Hepatitis C Resource Centre Otago says.

Hospital patients who are smokers are being stigmatised in a way other addicts are not, Peter Barron says.

Extra resources will be required for needs assessors so "quick gains" can be made in reducing home-based support for the elderly which may no longer be required, the Otago and Southland district

The Health and Disability Commissioner has ruled a surgeon and the Tairawhiti District Health Board fell down in their duties of care after bowel surgery on an elderly patient went wrong.

The Government will spend an extra $103.5 million on maternity services over the next four years, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today.

While Living Cell Technologies (LCT) waits for approval for its New Zealand xenotransplantation trial, it has announced that two of the diabetics it is treating in Russia have become insulin indepe