Auckland Health News

Nearly 100 patients died in "serious" incidents in public hospitals during the year to June 30, according to a report out today. The Quality Improvement Committee (QIC), appointed by the Minister of Health, published its third annual compilation of "serious...

Some non-urgent surgery at Wellington Hospital has been postponed following a chemical leak today. A worker accidentally cut a chemical pipe this morning, causing a formalin leak in a staff area at the hospital's clinical services building. Spokesman Michael Tull...

20:10 Shock new figures have put a dollar figure on what one of the most preventable diseases is costing the country. Research for the Cancer Society puts the cost of skin cancer to New Zealand at $123,000,000 a year. Treatment...

The number of New Zealanders diagnosed with diabetes now exceeds 200,000 for the first time, the Ministry of Health says. In addition to those who had been told they had the disease, about 100,000 had it but had not yet...

Waitemata District Health Board is giving the green light to a new renal unit that can treat up to 48 dialysis patients a day. Work will start on the $9.2 million building at North Shore Hospital next year and it...

Fiji will turn its clock forward by one hour from the 29th of this month to April 25, 2010. The re-introduction of the daylight saving was approved by Cabinet in its meeting last Tuesday. Daylight saving was introduced in 1998...

A type of sugar claimed to be the world's first "healthier choice" sugar will be launched in Auckland today. Chelsea Sugar said LoGiCane, was the world's first all-natural low glycemic index (GI) cane sugar to be available in New Zealand....

The New Zealanders are in trouble because cockroaches have multiplied in enormous numbers due to the present cold and damp atmospheric conditions which support their breeding. While the householders are worried sick about these pests, the ones who manufacture the...