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Lung cancer screening promises to find cancer early and treat it before it progresses. But a year on, issues have emerged.
The psychiatrist used to have to stay with the patient during their entire session. Now they’ll be able to leave the room after administering the drug.
A study tracking nearly 4,000 NZ children finds that, by eroding self-belief, adversity can leave them feeling less connected to school.
The marketing hype promises better health for men, fewer colds and a more robust immune system. Here’s what the evidence says.
Media articles can present adolescent sleep issues as both a normal part of growing up and a sign of deeper problems. How should parents make sense of it?
Two experts explain why staying focused, especially in our modern world, can be so hard.
When celebrities go public with their prostate cancer diagnoses, they do more than raise awareness.
People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.
Doctors working in palliative care see promise in emerging therapies involving psychedelic drugs, but say many questions still need to be addressed.
Good oral health is more than having healthy teeth and gums. Indigenous people told researchers why it’s central to their wider health and wellbeing.
Here’s what Vegemite Kids will mean for children’s total salt intake. Hint: not as much as you might think.
Hantavirus cruise ship passengers have left Perth quarantine. But how might quarantine affect them? History has some answers.
Well after the COVID pandemic, NZ’s respiratory virus landscape remains unsettled. if you’re over 65, COVID and flu vaccines remain a priority.
A new study found each extra hour of bending forward at work raised a woman’s miscarriage risk by 36%. But there are reasons to be cautious of this finding.
The outbreak isn’t widespread, so the risk to humans is low. But it does have the potential to cause severe illness.
GLP-1 drugs show promise for more than weight loss. They also cut substance abuse and are changing how we think about the brain’s reward system.
A new generation of drugs could ‘switch off’ asthma, effectively curing it. That would mean no more puffers and no more flare-ups.
Community responders often reach cardiac arrest patients quicker than emergency services. Carrying mobile defibrillators would improve people’s survival chances.
Sometimes, women who want a freebirth are aware of the risks. But some feel this is their only option.
Jeremy Clarkson says his prostate cancer is ‘aggressive’. Here’s what that actually means.
The fog new parents feel is real. But is it just sleep deprivation or is more going on?
For the first time, people aged 50–59 years make up the highest proportion of unintentional drug overdose deaths. But these aren’t just from illicit drugs.
Among 16 comparable countries, no other country has shrunk its public health expenditure as a percentage of GDP to the extent New Zealand has.
Beta-blockers block the effects of adrenaline, which is released when you’re in fight or flight mode. But they’re best known as a heart drug.