Health

Paramedics could be trained to treat people at home under proposals released by the Government.

Free blood pressure checks will be on offer around Otago today to encourage people to find out if they are at risk of having a stroke.

An unsubsidised alternative to a controversial thyroid drug went into pharmacies throughout the country yesterday, on the eve of a Medsafe announcement on its progress in finding a replacement med

Health boards have announced a settlement to the long running and bitter employment dispute with junior doctors, but the doctors' union say they are only considering an offer.

Shortfalls between subsidies provided to GPs for child immunisations and the actual cost of delivering the service is likely to be stifling efforts to improve immunisation rates, a new report sug

West Coast women requiring routine elective caesareans will now have to travel more than 700km to Dunedin Hospital.

Greymouth's Grey Base Hospital has been reopened for surgery after a superbug scare forced its operating theatres to close last week.