The Flawed Guru

Violence from Oppressive Governments or Religious Groups

Wellington, Sept 25 NZPA - Health experts are alarmed by the "scary" number of overweight or obese preschoolers.

Wellington, Sept 24 NZPA - Some consumers have been left feeling unsatisfied after the recall of male sexual enhancement products which did not meet Medsafe health regulations.

Patients come to hospital for treatment - not to get drawn into union campaigns for more money, says Karen Roach, spokesperson for the 20 DHBs.

She was responding to a Resident Doctors Association's complaint about being denied permission to hand out PR material on hospital grounds.

Wellington, Sept 24 NZPA - Health officials have ordered the recall of six products sold to enhance mens' sexual performance, because they contain undeclared medicines similar to active ingredients in prescription drugs such as Viagra and Cialis.

Wellington, Sept 24 NZPA - Maori children do not have enough health and social services devoted specifically to them and are suffering because of it, Maori leaders say.

- Clinical Thermography Responds to Health Groups' Claims -

 Preschoolers heading out into the big-wide world of school are emotionally well prepared in New Zealand, a survey has found.

Southland and Otago residents face a longer wait to hear the fate of their neurosurgery unit.

The Public Health Association conference has been told that ethnicity is a powerful predictor of a person's health, because of a racist "system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call "race").