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Thousands of patients throughout New Zealand living with chronic medical conditions will no longer have to pay for the delivery of funded medicines to their homes

Te Pātaka Whaioranga – Pharmac is consulting on changes to the access criteria for all COVID-19 antiviral treatments to include more people who are at risk of becoming severely ill from the infection

Public health experts have laid down a wero to politicians ahead of the upcoming general election - to reduce the devastating harms from tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food

Te Whatu Ora has taken a significant step to connect the health system’s multiple data environments into one common national platform for data management, and sharing for reporting and analytics

The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ has been calling for a ban on vapes being sold within one kilometre of schools and marae for years, and a complete stop to any more Specialist Vape Retailers (SVRs) from setting up

Reported cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea increased slightly in Aotearoa New Zealand during 2022, while chlamydia notifications remained stable

A report by University of Queensland researchers has warned a global crisis of antibiotic resistance is inevitable, despite promising developments in new antibiotics

The Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner has found a dentist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) in his sub-standard treatment of a woman over a period of three years

Replacing reading glasses with eye drops sounds too good to be true, but that’s the claim being made for a breakthrough treatment that could be coming to Aotearoa NZ