Health

[ad_1] Novak Djokovic knows he is not model behavior when he loses his cool on the tennis court. However, you can’t help it. Exactly two weeks after he was kicked out of the US Open, and one day after the chair umpire warned him for breaking his racket, Djokovic received …

[ad_1] Police transmitted the private health details of six people with Covid-19 to potential employers, but the infected job applicants had no idea their information had been shared. The police have apologized for the privacy violations, which occurred during the police investigation procedures. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards called the behavior …

[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Just as the National Party seemed to emerge from Labor’s Covid-19 shadow by launching its great temporary nature income tax policy, the worst happened: Labor found a mistake. This was not a dubious problem of “hiding expenses and increasing revenues”, but a basic mistake of using numbers from …

[ad_1] Supplied When Francesca Sears brought her husband Malcolm to the Nelson Hospital emergency department, she never thought he would be dead two days later. Three years after the Francesca Sears attack, a healthy husband died of pancreatitis, Nelson Marlborough Health has admitted to failures in his care. In May …

[ad_1] There are four new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today: two imported cases and two community cases not linked to the large group in Auckland, says the Health Ministry. Today there was no press conference. The government is due to announce on Monday whether alert levels will change …

[ad_1] A Wellington breast radiologist is investigating whether having dense breast tissue puts women at higher risk of developing cancer among mammograms, which are government-funded for women ages 45 to 69 every two years. Your playlist will load after this ad. Now a radiologist is investigating the link between dense …

[ad_1] New Zealand should aim for zero healthcare workers to become infected with Covid-19 while doing their job, says a senior epidemiologist. And Labor Relations Minister Andrew Little said there should be an investigation into how nearly 100 health workers contracted the deadly virus at work during the first outbreak. …

[ad_1] A disability service provider is furious with the government for what it says is a negligible increase in funding, even though a big deal has been made on the extra money in the May budget. By RNZ reporter Hamish Cardwell The Government announced a record increase in support services …

[ad_1] The Greens want to overhaul New Zealand’s Fishing Quota Management System, ban bottom trawling and spend $ 50 million to help the country’s fishing sector become more sustainable. The party also plans to protect at least 30 percent of all of New Zealand’s oceans by 2030 by passing a …

[ad_1] A student at Auckland’s Three Kings school tested positive for Covid-19 but did not attend school while infected, health authorities say. Your playlist will load after this ad. The community cases announced today are related to a person who had been in controlled isolation and tested negative twice before …