Striking radiographers (MRTs) abandoned strike action to respond immediately to the earthquake in Christchurch by turning up to work to ensure additional patients are treated.

Funding a new drug for people with advanced lung cancer and widening access to two other cancer treatments are features of a new agreement PHARMAC has reached with pharmaceutical company Roche Products (NZ) Ltd.

The end of year results of the 2009/10 Health Targets have been published within national and local newspapers and our results show a solid end of year achievement with an overall increase of performance in all areas.

Wellington, Aug 26 NZPA - Eighty seven percent of two-year-olds are fully immunised, up from 81 percent a year ago, new district health board (DHB) figures show.

In the expansive region of Australasia-which includes Australia, New Zealand and neighboring islands-Auckland Radiation Oncology Centre (ARO) is the first to use Elekta VMAT, treating a patient with prostate cancer using a single 100-second arc of radiation.

By Mark Ebrey, RD2, Taumarunui

International Men's Health Week is a time for men everywhere to take stock of their health. The Cancer Society is encouraging all men to take the opportunity to think about when they last had a chat with their GP about their general health.

The Green Party is calling for health warnings on mobile phone packaging in the light of findings from the Interphone Study which shows extended use of mobile phones may increase the risk of brain tumours.

It has been more than 50 years since New Zealand naval personnel were exposed to radiation from nuclear testing - but the psychological fallout is only now being realised.

NIWA scientists say concentrations of ozone high in the atmosphere are projected to increase. This is good news for the ozone hole over the South Pole.