Today the international aid convoy to Gaza, whose three columns have driven from England, North Africa and the Arab East to link up in Syria, leaves land and takes to the waters of the Mediterranean.

A 24-year-old Queenstown resident is undergoing surgery following an incident at the winter festival Birdman competition on Sunday June 27.

The woman was a member of a group entry into the competition, in which competitors jump from a jetty in Queenstown Bay into Lake Wakatipu.

NZPA - An Auckland chiropractor has been found guilty of malpractice after telling a a woman she had a degenerative spinal problem that needed expensive treatment when she visited him with a sore elbow.

New Plymouth-based medical bed manufacturer, Howard Wright, has won the 2010 Australian International Design Award of the Year for its M8 Intensive Care bed.

Wellington, May 4 NZPA - A 75-year-old woman died less than four hours after a doctor at Whangarei Hospital misdiagnosed her chest pains and discharged her.

Wellington, Feb 14 NZPA - The Auckland hospital that sent a woman home with a broken back has defended its action.

Today CMP Canterbury, one of New Zealand's biggest meat exporters, partnered with the New Zealand Customs Service in Customs' Secure Exports Scheme (SES), ensuring CMP experience speedier clearance times and greater trade facilitation.

While many aid agencies have been troubled by the bottleneck of critical aid and supplies, TEAR Fund NZ's partners quickly moved to establish its own supply lines.

Patients of Te Anau's Fiordland Medical Practice will benefit from more timely and convenient x-ray services thanks to a grant from the Meridian Te Anau-Manapouri Community fund late last year.

Wellington, Dec 2 NZPA - Iain O'Brien has even fewer places to hide at the Basin Reserve now that fate has eliminated Shane Bond from the test cricket series against Pakistan.