Other health news

Vaccination our best shot to avoid the flu

Friday, 13 April 2018 8:24 am

Health Minister Dr David Clark has rolled up his sleeve today for his influenza vaccination as part of the annual campaign that kicked off last week.

Falls and crashes, kids and males show up in brain injury statistics

Tuesday, 13 March 2018 5:07 pm

During 2017, almost 550 people living in the Midland health region* were admitted to hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Of these, 66% were male,...

Educational videos help Waikato heart patients navigate recovery

Tuesday, 06 March 2018 10:47 am

Waikato doctors are turning to the medical equivalent of airline safety videos to help treat growing numbers of heart patients

Renowned thoracic surgeon Dr Diego Gonzalez teaches Waikato Hospital doctors

Tuesday, 06 March 2018 10:44 am

Surgeons at Waikato Hospital are the first in New Zealand to learn a less invasive lung surgery technique that is quicker, not as painful, and enables patients to recover faster.

Grant Christey from Midland Trauma System in theatre

Midland Trauma System yield data that can avert future injury

Friday, 12 January 2018 11:53 am

On the computer screen in surgeon Grant Christey’s office is a map of the Midland district his trauma system covers. It takes in major centres, including New Plymouth, Hamilton, Rotorua, Tauranga and Gisborne, and comprises five district health boards: Tairāwhiti, Taranaki, Lakes, Bay of Plenty and Waikato.

Turangi fatal crash survivor returns to Waikato Hospital to thank carers

Monday, 08 January 2018 10:46 am

A young American woman who suffered critical injuries in a crash that killed three students in 2012, has made the pilgrimage back to New Zealand to thank the doctors and nurses who saved her life.

ICU staff helping break ‘taboo’ of organ donation

Monday, 08 January 2018 10:43 am

For a person whose career has focused on mending and healing, there's one thing Dr Annette Forrest doesn't mind breaking: taboos.

Trust donates care packages for families at Waikato’s newborn intensive care unit

Thursday, 28 December 2017 9:43 am

A pair of red woollen booties sit perched at the end of Kaihī Kaka's crib. The 10-day-old infant is wrapped in a home-made blanket, donated by a woman from Tokoroa. The gifts are warm and thoughtful, his mother Samantha Lee says, but also a painful reminder the pair were spending Christmas Day in hospital, away from her partner and two older children.

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