Other health news

The Health Quality & Safety Commission has launched a new, publicly-available dashboard of health system quality that shows at a glance how individual district health... Read More

Dr Simone Inkrot is a heart failure nurse with a long-standing interest in how empathy influences people’s ability to look after themselves.

In August 2017, Tracey Crouchman's 10-year-old daughter Anna hopped into bed to read a book with a hot water bottle by her feet. 

A project to review health apps is under way to give New Zealanders the information they need to decide what health apps are the best... Read More

Fifteen seconds is all it takes to breathe into a smokerlyzer machine and start the journey to give up cigarettes.

Hamilton man Steve Harvey, 52, knew he faced serious health problems after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and it would start affecting his life... Read More