2+ hour, 27+ min ago  (839+ words) But most credit belongs to a little-known Queenstowner, 60-year-old Helen Foot, who was independent convener for the Southern Lakes Health Project team who successfully made the case this fast-growing area had been left well behind in the provision of health…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1177+ words) Five years ago " almost to the day " Corey Ford had a freak accident while playing basketball, which left him paralysed from the shoulders down. Yesterday, the 46-year-old was tearful as he looked back on what was the darkest time of…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (515+ words) A falcon found seriously injured on a Canterbury highway was saved by a team of "bird taxi" drivers who rushed it to a wildlife hospital hundreds of kilometres away. The battered k'rearea/New Zealand falcon is lucky to be alive…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (583+ words) According to its website, Pharmac is "proposing to change who can receive funded treatment with empagliflozin, dulaglutide and liraglutide". "This includes widening access to these medicines by lowering the clinical threshold for heart disease risk and removing ethnicity-based eligibility criteria....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (382+ words) His wife Anna Sheehan posted the sad news on Kerr's Instagram page " cutcancerkerr " where he posted videos about his experience living with grade four astrocytoma. Bay Harbour News has covered Kerr's cancer journey since his family and friends launched a…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (418+ words) Otago Daily Times Dental school gets a new smile You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. The opening ceremony which began shortly after 3 o'clock in the lecture theatre on…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (610+ words) The Ministry of Education is urgently seeking answers after a nonverbal boy with autism was left in a Ritchies van for hours. This comes as it launches a broader review into government-funded school transport for disabled students. The 11-year-old boy…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (418+ words) It comes after University of Otago biochemistry researcher Prof Parry Guilford received a $1, 198, 927 grant in the latest round of funding from the Health Research Council (HRC). Each month, about 2500 New Zealanders undergo a colonoscopy because of symptoms of colorectal (bowel)…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (252+ words) After 25 years of quietly supporting cancer patients, the Inner Wheel Club of Invercargill South has made its final delivery of handmade "silky pillows". Club spokesperson Diane Cade said the small pillows were used by breast cancer patients to provide wound…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (496+ words) It comes after recent announcements the town, which is about four hours" drive from Dunedin Hospital, could lose its particular rural funding status for GP and urgent after-hours care due to its population increase. Labour MP Damien O'Connor has also…...