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Cochlear announces the Nucleus® 6 System
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 1:31 pm | Cochlear Limited
Cochlear Limited, the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, has announced the launch in New Zealand of its most advanced hearing solution – Cochlear™ Nucleus® 6. This next generation sound processor has an intelligent feature which automatically ... More >>
Hub to showcase health innovation
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 1:19 pm | Joint Press Release
Interactive health technology will feature at Atamira Maori in the City this weekend as more than twenty health organisations unite to showcase health as part of the event’s Hauora (Health) Hub. More >>
Pilot to enhance independence of seriously injured clients
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 12:01 pm | Accident Compensation Corporation
A serious injury can rob you of your dignity and independence – but ACC is trialling a new way to help give it back. More >>
IRD Leads the Weigh with Workplace Slimming
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 11:52 am | Weight Watchers
The Inland Revenue is celebrating a slimmer and healthier workplace after its employees shed a combined total of 381 kilos, winning them the title of ‘New Zealand Workplace of the Year’ at the 2013 Weight Watchers Healthy Life Awards last night. More >>
Telehealth Represents the Future of New Zealand Healthcare
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 11:06 am | Bay of Plenty District Health Board
Doctor-patient consultations via video link are the future of healthcare and an answer to serving remote communities says a New Zealand medical leader. More >>
System enables cancer patients to access treatment faster
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 9:56 am | Auckland Radiation Oncology
Hundreds of cancer patients in the Greater Auckland region will be able to start their radiation treatment days sooner thanks to the introduction of an innovative planning system called RayStation® at leading radiation therapy centre, Auckland ... More >>
Fresh ideas for Spring produce
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 3:17 pm | 5 Plus A Day
Spring’s seasonal produce provides a great opportunity to add fresh flavours to healthy, tasty meals, says 5+ A Day. 5+ A Day nutritionist, Bronwen Anderson, says eating fresh fruit and vegetables in season offers many benefits. “Seasonal produce ... More >>
Doctor of behavior science writes first book
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 3:05 pm | Victoria Walden
After serving as a professor of behavior science for two different universities during the 1980s and 1990s, author Mary Ellen Stepanich now wants to help educate the world about finding your lost voice, overcoming poor value programming through music and ... More >>
Professor Sir Mason Durie to visit Gisborne in October
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 2:48 pm | Tairawhiti District Health
One of the country’s leading experts in health research and development, Professor Sir Mason Durie, will visit Gisborne on 10 October 2013. Sir Mason will deliver a day seminar as a guest of Te Waiora o Nukutaimemeha (TWON), the Maori advisory committee ... More >>
Accuro Offers Portable Health Care Cover
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 10:50 am | Accuro Health Insurance
Accuro Health Insurance is extending its cover to New Zealanders living and working in Australia. More >>
Two diseases, one patient
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 6:39 pm | Citizen News Service
Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) – can we continue to tackle these separately? According to the Global TB Report (2012), in 2011, out of 8.7 million people who developed TB worldwide 1.1 million (13%) were HIV positive. An approximate ... More >>
Wgtn Mental Health Advocate Wins Top Australasian Award
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 5:28 pm | Kites Trust
Anne Helm, from Wellington (March 2013) , received an A ward for Exceptional Contribution to Mental Health Service in Australia or New Zealand at The Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand (TheMHS) in Melbourne on 21 August 2013. More >>
Study quantifies effect of alcohol misuse on 20-somethings
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 1:10 pm | University of Otago
University of Otago, Christchurch researchers have for the first time quantified exactly what damage alcohol abuse is inflicting on 20-somethings, and in turn society. More >>
Eye Care Centre 20th Birthday - 20,000th Cataract Surgery
Monday, 2 September 2013, 4:27 pm | Impact PR
A leading Auckland eye care centre has marked 20 years in business by performing its 20,000th milestone cataract procedure. Auckland Eye founding specialist, Dr David Pendergrast, says the landmark surgery is a nod to how the practice and the ophthalmology ... More >>
Risks And Benefits of New Pbs-Listed Anticoagulants
Monday, 2 September 2013, 4:23 pm | NPS MedicineWise
MEDIA RELEASE 2 SEPTEMBER 2013 Remember to Weigh up Risks And Benefits of New Pbs-Listed Anticoagulants NPS MedicineWise is reiterating safety messages around the newer anticoagulant medicines dabigatran (brand name Pradaxa) and apixaban (Eliquis) with their PBS listing ... More >>
Action Plan Sets Waikato on a Path to Excellence
Monday, 2 September 2013, 3:57 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Action Plan Sets Waikato on a Path to Excellence The first annual report for Waikato District Health Board (DHB) as part of a focus on maternity quality and safety confirms that a number of changes have taken place in recent months in response to an action ... More >>
World Physiotherapy Day: Movement for Life
Monday, 2 September 2013, 3:17 pm | Physiotherapy New Zealand
For World Physiotherapy Day (8 September), physiotherapists are reminding New Zealanders that the single most important thing we can do for our health is to be active. More >>
Early Transition of Clinical Pathology Services
Monday, 2 September 2013, 3:12 pm | Auckland District Health Board
Labtests Auckland Ltd has purchased Diagnostic MedLab’s (DML) clinical pathology and collection service operations. More >>
Prostate cancer fundraising in full swing
Monday, 2 September 2013, 2:55 pm | Rural Women New Zealand
‘Blue September’ is giving an added boost to Rural Women New Zealand’s six month long Y Front Up to Prostate Cancer campaign , with members holding a range of events around the country. More >>
Leukaemia rates significantly higher in NZ Vietnam vets
Monday, 2 September 2013, 2:33 pm | University of Otago
Vietnam veterans who served from 1962-1971 have double the rate of chronic lymphatic leukaemia compared to the general population according to a new study by the University of Otago’s Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. More >>
Kura Wananga hosts first Oranga Niho event in te reo Maori
Monday, 2 September 2013, 2:31 pm | Tairawhiti District Health
Celebrities have been brushed aside in favour of local children being the stars in this year’s Oral Health Week events in Gisborne, says Tairawhiti District Health oral health promoter, Leanne Bodle. More >>
IBM delivers a unified health information platform
Monday, 2 September 2013, 2:28 pm | IBM
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has implemented a new software platform for the New Zealand Ministry of Health to support the personalised health records for all patients throughout New Zealand. More >>
New name and integration for GP service
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 3:34 pm | Tui Ora
A GP service with a direct link to Taranaki’s biggest kaupapa Māori health and social services organisation is re-launched on Monday September 2. More >>
Visit GP before stopping gout medication
Friday, 30 August 2013, 4:56 pm | Arthritis New Zealand
Arthritis New Zealand strongly urges people with Gout, which is a form of arthritis, not to discontinue taking their medication, for gout, without first consulting health professionals, in response to today’s New Zealand Herald article on ‘gout drug ... More >>
Pacific Homecare workforce training programme a winner
Friday, 30 August 2013, 2:25 pm | Pacific Homecare
Successful Homecare provider Pacific Homecare won the Skills Highway Award at the 2013 Diversity Awards NZ, held at Auckland’s Pullman Hotel last night. An initiative of the Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Trust, the Diversity Awards NZ are influential ... More >>
Bayer invests in new veterinary research facility
Friday, 30 August 2013, 1:53 pm | Bayer HealthCare
Bayer’s Auckland-based Centre for Innovation and Development (CID) today opened a new research facility, which will play a key part in improving the health of farm and pet animals. More >>
Fonterra Milk for Schools Launches in Manawatu And Wanganui
Friday, 30 August 2013, 12:29 pm | Fonterra
Not a drop of milk was left in sight after school children across the Manawatu and Wanganui took their first slurps of Fonterra Milk for Schools milk this morning. More than 100 schools across the region with primary-aged school children Years 1 ... More >>
Petition to help tube fed children in New Zealand
Friday, 30 August 2013, 10:42 am | The PR Company
A petition is being launched today, August 30, to help convince the government to bring in a special weaning programme for tube fed children. More >>
Karicare Products Never Posed A Risk
Friday, 30 August 2013, 9:03 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has confirmed that, on the basis of information to hand, there was never a food safety risk associated with any Karicare products made with whey protein concentrate (WPC). More >>
All pharmacists should be offered health literacy training
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 7:12 pm | Health Quality and Safety Commission
A new report recommends all pharmacists are offered training to ensure people understand why they are being given medicines, how to take them, and their risks and benefits. More >>
Not his preferred gift – but he’ll love you for it!
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 6:49 pm | Arthritis New Zealand
Arthritis New Zealand’s Chief Executive Sandra Kirby reminded New Zealanders to remember Dad’s health this Fathers’ Day. Especially if he has arthritis. More >>
Waipareira Staff Recognised By Professor Matt Sanders
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 1:51 pm | Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust
Te Whanau O Waipareira will host the founder of the world-class positive parenting programme. Next week Professor Matt Sanders – himself a west Aucklander – will present 32 awards - 13 of those to Waipareira kaimahi - who have qualified as Triple ... More >>
BLIS Technologies help fight rheumatic fever with probiotics
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 1:45 pm | BLIS Technologies
Dunedin company BLIS Technologies Ltd have partnered with the Eastern Bay of Plenty Primary Health Alliance, Kawerau Rheumatic Fever Prevention Program. The company has donated 200 bottles of its BLIS K12 Throat Guard Daily probiotics to aid children ... More >>
Sore throats matter! Get a throat swab
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 11:59 am | Turanga Health
Parents and caregivers are reminded ‘Sore Throats Matter!’ as health organisations visit schools to prevent and treat Group A Streptococcal. More >>
No botulism risk in NZ infant formula
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 9:16 am | Infant Nutrition Council
The infant formula industry looks forward to the lifting of bans on product imposed during the whey protein scare, now that tests show there was never any botulism risk, says Infant Nutrition Council (INC) CEO Jan Carey. More >>
Waikato Hospital staff embrace comedy for a cause
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 4:41 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Waikato Hospital staff will trade the bright lights of operating theatres for the bright lights of the stage tomorrow night when Waikato Hospital’s 2013 comedy revue opens at Hamilton's Clarence Street Theatre. More >>
Time to face up to rural mental health needs
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 4:39 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is joining the Rural General Practice Network in calling for specific funding for rural mental health. This follows the latest annual release of suicide statistics by the Chief Coroner. More >>
Protest at Invercargill Hospital
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 2:49 pm | Southlanders For Life
The beginning of September this year marks the first 12 month period that the Southern District Health Board (SDHB) has been performing both medical and surgical abortions in Invercargill Hospital. Using the Official Information Act, the SDHB released to ... More >>
Care Rationing In New Zealand Hospitals a Cause For Concern
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 1:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Recent media reports highlighting ‘care rationing’ in two New Zealand hospitals are a cause for concern but not a surprise for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO). NZNO believes the practice is widespread as DHBs and the nursing team are ... More >>
Streaking Superhero Crusades for Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 11:58 am | Placemakers
PRESS RELEASE WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST Streaking Superhero Crusades for Prostate Cancer Back by popular demand, the cheeky PlaceMakers Blue Streak is once again crusading across the country raising awareness of the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Blue September ... More >>
Newly elected board for Nurses Organisation
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) Kaiwhakahaere, Kerri Nuku and President, Marion Guy are pleased to welcome newly elected directors to its board. More >>
Bad news for Tongan Health Society, Langimalie
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 4:14 pm | Tongan Advisory Council
Health Minister Hon. Tony Ryall’s pet PHO Alliance Health+ (AH+) seems hell bent on destroying the Tongan Health Society (THS), says Tongan Advisory Council chair Melino Maka. More >>
Performance remains strong in key health targets
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 4:09 pm | Canterbury District Health Board
Canterbury District Health Board’s performance in key health targets has remained strong with more people receiving complex surgeries than ever before. More >>
Early intervention key to reducing youth poisoning deaths
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 2:51 pm | Health Quality and Safety Commission
A new report highlights the need to intervene early to prevent unintentional deaths from poisoning in young people. More >>
NZ Health Promotion Held Up As International Best Practice
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 2:03 pm | Health Promotion Forum
Health promotion programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand are being held up as models of best practice this week at the annual conference of the world’s most highly respected health promotion organisation. Senior Health Promotion Strategists from the Health ... More >>
Warriors Step Out to Support Young Child with Cancer
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 1:37 pm | Joint Press Release
In the last few years eight-year-old Ashdyn Mitchell hasn’t had much to smile about. The Auckland youngster, diagnosed with Neuroblastoma five years ago, has come through years of intensive treatment and long periods in hospital. More >>
Helping Smokers to Quit, a Health Target First
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 10:44 am | Waikato DHB
Waikato has hit the 95 per cent Better help for Smokers to Quit health target in its hospitals for the first time since the introduction of the target in July 2009. More >>
Thousands of Waikato people have elective operations
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 9:10 am | Waikato District Health Board
27 August 2013 Thousands of Waikato people have elective operations Surgeons, booking clerks, anaesthetists and those who work in Waikato District Health Board’s theatres and ward settings have today come in for huge praise for delivering nearly 15,000 ... More >>
Connecting with each other key to suicide prevention
Monday, 26 August 2013, 5:40 pm | Mental Health Foundation
Following the release of the Chief Coroner’s annual provisional suicide figures, the Mental Health Foundation is urging New Zealanders to connect with each other, and not be afraid to ask some hard questions. More >>
Connecting with each other key to suicide prevention
Monday, 26 August 2013, 5:39 pm | Mental Health Foundation
MEDIA RELEASE 26 August 2013 Connecting with each other key to suicide prevention Following the release of the Chief Coroner’s annual provisional suicide figures, the Mental Health Foundation is urging New Zealanders to connect with each other, ... More >>
CASPER Claims Credit for Decrease in Youth, Maori Suicides
Monday, 26 August 2013, 4:44 pm | CASPER
26 August 2013 - CASPER’s tireless focus on providing families and communities with the knowledge and tools to prevent suicide has resulted in a drop in suicides for youth and Maori In figures released by the Chief Coroner today. More >>
Inaugural Nutrition Week to Set the Record Straight
Monday, 26 August 2013, 1:57 pm | NZ Nutrition Foundation
This September, the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation (NZNF) is launching New Zealand’s first Nutrition Week to help Kiwis make informed, healthy and enjoyable food choices. More >>
Future Doctors Concerned About Health Workforce Strategy
Monday, 26 August 2013, 9:24 am | New Zealand Medical Students' Association - NZMSA
The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) applauds the Government’s commitment of junior doctor jobs for all domestic graduates. President Phillip Chao says “Given that training a doctor costs roughly $400,000 it is essential we continue ... More >>
Hepatitis A clinic held at Lincoln preschool
Friday, 23 August 2013, 5:06 pm | Canterbury DHB
Pupils, their families, and staff from the Lincoln University Early Childhood Centre were provided with a hepatitis A vaccine today (Friday) to reduce the potential for the virus to spread. More >>
Shared Care View means faster, safer, better care
Friday, 23 August 2013, 4:57 pm | Canterbury DHB
Canterbury people are once again set to benefit from the Canterbury Health System’s trademark innovative approach. Nowhere else has health information been securely shared on such a scale, or with such a range of benefits for people who need to access ... More >>
Outstanding young dentist for 2013.
Friday, 23 August 2013, 1:01 pm | Northland District Health Board
A Northland dentist has been named as New Zealand’s outstanding young dentist for 2013. More >>
Canterbury DHB first in region to promote 'Open for better'.
Thursday, 22 August 2013, 4:48 pm | Canterbury DHB
Canterbury District Health Board (DHB) is hosting a stand to raise awareness tomorrow (August 23, 2013) of the national patient safety campaign Open for better care . More >>
Genetic markers being used to target oral hepatitis C drug
Thursday, 22 August 2013, 10:55 am | PHARMAC
A person’s genetic makeup will be used to target a new funded oral treatment for hepatitis C patients from 1 September. More >>
Serenity Without Pills
Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 4:27 pm | Maharishi Foundation
An Auckland psychiatrist is endorsing Transcendental Meditation in clinical practice for the treatment of anxiety disorders and stress related illness in his recently released book “From Anxiety to Peace”. More >>
Newly Funded Hepatitis C Treatment Will Help Curb Epidemic
Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 2:07 pm | Joint Press Release
From the 1st of September hepatitis C sufferers will have a new treatment option thanks to VICTRELIS ™ (boceprevir) being funded for people with chronic viral hepatitis C, genotype 1. This includes patients being treated for the first time as well as ... More >>
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