Family First NZ says that the extent of complications for Australian women who use the drug RU486 to abort their children should send a warning to health authorities in NZ as they consider applications by Family Planning and others to use the controversial drug.

Invercargill, September 27, NZPA - An Invercargill woman who was told by her urologist she had strained a muscle and should take panadol was diagnosed with kidney stones and a cancerous tumour on her left kidney just days later, a Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal was told today.

The chances of New Zealand European children getting rheumatic fever are one in 10,000, but the Public Health Association conference was told today that in some Maori communities in the Bay of Plenty, the chances are as high as one in 39.

The West Coast District Health Board has received notice from the Association of Professionals and Executive Employees (APEX) that radiographers are withdrawing their labour from 7.00am on Tuesday 7 September until 7.00am Wednesday 8 September.

Health Minister Tony Ryall says the Lakes District Health Board has posted big improvements in key services over the past year.

Earlier this year a steady stream of Coopworth ram hoggets from registered Coopworth studs throughout New Zealand have taken a short break off farm at Lincoln University.

Kiwi Party President and former MP Gordon Copeland said today that his Party is totally opposed to the proposal by Labour MP Steve Chadwick to decriminalise abortion in New Zealand and sanction abortion on demand up to 24 weeks gestation.

Family First NZ says that any attempts to make abortion more available will undermine the "It's Not OK'" message and will legitimise child abuse of the unborn child.

A University of Otago physicist is part of an international team that has developed the most efficient quantum "memory" for light in the world, an achievement that brings closer a future of super-fast computers and ultra-secure communications.

17,550 abortions in 2009, mean 390 less abortions than in 2008.

The statistics are way too high, proving that abortion is easily available on demand.