[ad_1] HENRY COOKE Last Updated 18:53, 26 July 2018 ROSS GIBLIN / STUFF Simon Bridges and Dr. Shane Reti announce their party's version of a medicinal cannabis bill. Ministry of Health analysis …
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[ad_1] A quarter of an emergency department patients New Zealand ranked second worst out of 28 countries in the study. Photo: 123rf The proportion of patients who had been treated was 15 …
Read More »Patients with prostate cancer said to consider radiation as well as surgery
[ad_1] by Jill Margo Patients with prostate cancer are at the center of a dispute between two groups of medical specialists. These men have potentially curable cancer and the dispute is about …
Read More »Doctors Recognize "Increased Risk" of patients deteriorating overnight during the nurses' strike
[ad_1] KATARINA WILLIAMS AND THOMAS MANCH Last updated on 22:56, 12 July 2018 STUFF The country's nurses go on strike for 24 hours, starting at 7am on Thursday. Doctors admitted that there …
Read More »The nurses' strike affects 450 patients
[ad_1] The Southern District Health Board began contacting hundreds of patients to cancel and change reserved appointments for tomorrow, after the nurses voted for the strike. Up to 75% of front-line workers …
Read More »Additional Community aid for Warfarin patients Bay of Plenty
[ad_1] Lupe Poe suffered from rheumatic fever at the age of 12 The disease damaged one of her heart valves and she has been on warfarin since. She needs weekly blood tests …
Read More »Cancer drugs do not work for all patients
[ad_1] The research results of the University of Otago do not help to understand why new anti-checkpoint immune therapies like nivolumab and pembrolizumab have been approved by the New Zealand government. for …
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