Research by the University of Otago, Wellington shows that growing numbers of intoxicated people presenting at the Emergency Department of Wellington Hospital verbally and physically abuse staff on a regular basis, and have a negative impact on other patients.

Over 120 teenagers united in Wellington’s Civic Square this morning (9 June) to challenge smokers to quit as part of a public this Matariki ceremony organised by Quitline.

News of a measles outbreak in Auckland has prompted Plunket to restate the importance of immunisation.

The Community and Public Health division of the Canterbury District Health Board has lifted its algal bloom health warning issued for the Ashley River. Warnings for this river were issued on 20 January 2011.

Over 120 teenagers will challenge smokers to quit this Matariki as part of a public Dawn ceremony organised by Quitline. This event will take place this Thursday (9 June) from 7:30am-10:00am in Wellington’s Civic Square (wet weather venue, Capital E).

A senior student at Lincoln High School, Christchurch has been diagnosed with probable Tuberculosis (TB). The student is responding well to treatment and is likely to be back at school in a couple of weeks.

The Community and Public Health division of the Canterbury District Health Board has lifted its algal bloom health warning issued along the Waipara River. Warnings for this river were issued on 10 December 2010 and 21 February 2011.

Eighteen cases of measles in Hawke’s Bay, since March, has prompted health officials to urge parents to check their children are fully immunised

Builders have handed over the keys to the $48 million Acute Services Building at Waiora Waikato Hospital campus in Hamilton and now the work begins in earnest to get the second and third floors of the facility up and running in six weeks.

An Australian clinical study trial of a Christchurch-made green shell mussel health product has found arthritic conditions improved by 43 percent for people taking the supplement.