Attention deficit hyperactivity, autism, dyslexia and a range of other neurobehavioral and developmental disorders may be due to an imbalance between the two hemispheres of the brain, the national conference of the New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association was told yesterday (19th May).
Waikato District Health Board’s Older Persons and Rehabilitation staff today took 114 peoples blood pressure in two hours at Waikato Hospital.
Thirty of those – a mixture of staff and patients – were referred to their GPs with high blood pressure for follow-up.
2012 has seen a record jump in the number of young New Zealanders turning away from tobacco. This World Smokefree Day, the Bay of Plenty District Health Board has a lot to celebrate.
For so many Bay of Plenty families, staying ahead of the bills and keeping food on the table is a real challenge, and one that isn’t getting easier. For those one in five New Zealanders that smoke the pressure can be even greater.
The New Zealand Home Health Association welcomes the additional spending on home and community services announced by the Minister of Health this week.
18 May 2012: The true burden of childhood ear infections on parents and families has been highlighted for the first time in a global study of 2,867 caregivers, which included over 250 New Zealand families.
It is estimated that 80 percent of children aged under three will have at least one episode of acute middle ear infection, with around 83,000 new episodes in New Zealand children under five.1,2
Five bowel cancers and five cancerous polyps have been detected in the first few months of the four year bowel screening pilot at Waitemata District Health Board.
Te Ururoa Flavell, education spokesperson for the Māori Party, has stepped in to the fracas that has erupted this week around a Whangarei early childhood centre and their response to the family with a child with HIV.
A new and innovative joint venture between Unitec Institute of Technology and the Waitemata District Health Board will provide further opportunities for learning, innovation, research and collaboration among health practitioners, community agencies and more than 1000 Unitec health science and social practice students in Waitakere.
More than 20 high performing secondary schoolers will rub shoulders with top medical students and health professionals at the medical industry’s annual conference later this month.
Co-leader of the Māori Party, Tariana Turia, is pleased that Budget 2012 is delivering an additional $33million for improved cancer services and hopes that priority can be given to addressing the large differences in cancer survival rates between Maori and non-Maori.
Federated Farmers is willing to contribute towards a major new study into whether coroners' recommendations are being acted upon.
It has been 125 years since the first patient was admitted to Waikato Hospital, on Thursday (17 May).
On this day 125 years ago, the first patient was operated on by candle-light, for a gun-shot injury.
New Zealand is joining the fight against one of the country’s least known diseases on World Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Day
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, 16 May 2012 – To coincide with World IBD Day, Crohn’s & Colitis New Zealand (CCNZ) and healthcare company Abbott have announced the launch of IMPACT, a survey designed to uncover the burden of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and improve understanding and awareness of IBD in New Zealand.
As whooping cough epidemic spreads in NZ, a leading Auckland Paediatrician urges adults to help protect babies
16 May 2012: As numbers of whooping cough (pertussis) cases continue to escalate around the country, a leading Auckland Paediatrician, Dr Cameron Grant, urges people to do more to help protect vulnerable babies.
Plans to set up abortion services in Southland are good news for women of the region who will no longer have to make long journeys to Dunedin or Christchurch for care they should be able to get in their own area, the president of ALRANZ Dr. Morgan Healey said today.
In the March 2012 year:
• 60,860 live births and 29,811 deaths were registered in New Zealand, resulting in a natural increase (live births minus deaths) of 31,049.
Breast Screen Midland (BSM) has experienced a rapid boost in the number of compliments about their free breast screening services.
Since May 1, 17 notes of written gratitude have been received from Midland patients. This surpasses the number of compliments gathered during the entire January to March 2012 period.
Women in western Auckland are being encouraged to get a free mammogram when BreastScreen Waitemata Northland’s digital mobile screening unit visits Glen Eden for the first time next month.
Short term changes in household income have only small effects on health, but have more significant impacts if income is affected by unemployment or chronic health conditions, new research from the University of Otago, Wellington shows.
