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  •   Home > News >  Subscribe to NZCity's Health & Safety articles  Health & Safety
    Calls for the Government to push forward with funded health checks for intellectually disabled people - now it's got the research to back it
     15 February 2025
    Calls for the Government to push forward with funded health checks for intellectually disabled people - now it's got the research to back it
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    A researcher says the effectiveness of cold and flu medicine has always been dubious
    14 Feb: A researcher says the effectiveness of cold and flu medicine has always been dubious... more
    A woman from Mangawhai with life-threatening dehydration, was shocked to find she had the Victorian-era disease, cholera
    13 Feb: A woman from Mangawhai with life-threatening dehydration, was shocked to find she had the Victorian-era disease, cholera... more
    Biosecurity officials are thanking Auckland's Papatoetoe community for their cooperation, in the six weeks since the discovery of a single male Oriental fruit fly
    13 Feb: Biosecurity officials are thanking Auckland's Papatoetoe community for their cooperation, in the six weeks since the discovery of a single male Oriental fruit fly... more
    A Christchurch youth facility is in urgent need of medical supplies, as it expands to two locations
    12 Feb: A Christchurch youth facility is in urgent need of medical supplies, as it expands to two locations... more
    Routine screenings for spinal muscular atrophy - will be on offer from today for all newborns
    12 Feb: Routine screenings for spinal muscular atrophy - will be on offer from today for all newborns... more
    Far North residents are feeling overlooked, with a lack of critical healthcare in the region
    11 Feb: Far North residents are feeling overlooked, with a lack of critical healthcare in the region... more
    Patients are waiting too long for heart surgery
    8 Feb: Patients are waiting too long for heart surgery... more
    Food Safety New Zealand has given Chelsea Sugar a stark warning - for making and selling almost one-thousand tonnes of lead-contaminated sugar products
    7 Feb: Food Safety New Zealand has given Chelsea Sugar a stark warning - for making and selling almost one-thousand tonnes of lead-contaminated sugar products... more
    Calls for more investment into research for preventing falls in aged residential care
    7 Feb: Calls for more investment into research for preventing falls in aged residential care... more

     Most Popular Recent Health & Safety News
     07 Mar: School lunch provider Compass has been instructed not to heat its packed meals in commercial ovens - after a Gisborne child was severely burned by a school lunch ++++++++++++++++++
     20 Mar: New Zealanders say their number one concern about internet harm is the safety of children ++++++++++++++
     10 Mar: A mother says she waited five hours to be seen at Rotorua Hospital's emergency department last month - with her three-year-old who had two injuries to his head, including a "tennis ball-sized lump" +++++++++++
     03 Mar: A show of support for Green-fairy Paul Smith, who has today pleaded NOT guilty to cultivating, dealing and possessing medicinal cannabis ++++++++++
     06 Mar: A Maori cancer expert group is accusing the Government of intentional, institutionalised racism ++++++++++
     10 Mar: A man died of sepsis in Auckland Hospital after treatment delays - despite his daughter raising concerns he was deteriorating ++++++++++
     15 Mar: A medical expert says a three-year-old Reporoa boy was held under water in a spa pool, causing a fatal brain injury +++++++++


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