Stories by Karen Brown

The latest version of the flu vaccine has arrived in the country from Europe and experts are encouraging people to have their annual flu jab early.

MPs have been urged today to provide wider legal protection for medicinal cannabis use than is currently proposed.

About eight lives have already been saved in Hutt Valley and Wairarapa by bowel screening, according to experts.

Some Waikato health board staff felt intimidated by former chief executive Nigel Murray, and those who confronted him over his spending showed real courage.

A mother who was left to give birth to her stillborn baby without her midwife present has had her complaint upheld.

Emergency doctors are calling for major improvements to the care of those with acute mental and behavioural conditions.

The Cancer Society says 2500 more New Zealanders would have survived cancer if they had lived in Australia.

Thousands of patients who've had open-heart surgery and a device implanted over the past four years are being told to look out for signs of infection.

A boy was left blind in one eye about a year after an optometrist diagnosed lazy eye and prescribed glasses.

Waikato District Health Board could drop a contentious policy requiring un-immunised staff to wear a mask when treating patients.

Terminally ill people who possess and use illicit cannabis will be protected from prosecution under legislation introduced today.

The departing head of Wellington's deeply-indebted district health board says tight funding has forced it to become highly efficient.

Auckland researchers believe they have found one of the changes in the brain that results in Huntington's Disease. Video, Audio

Women taking the breast cancer drug Herceptin have similar survival rates regardless of whether they take it for nine weeks or a year, a study has revealed.

The Health Minister told Morning Report that Chai Chuah had decided it was time for new ideas and leadership. Audio

People who are willing and able to donate a kidney or part of a liver will receive financial help from tomorrow.

A twin baby who died during birth should have been delivered urgently, a report has found.

Former Waikato DHB chief executive Nigel Murray used public funds for personal trips, embarked on international trips while on sick leave and tried to cover up breaches, a damning audit says. Audio

More than a third of senior doctors and dentists working in public health say they've been bullied at work, and two-thirds have seen others being bullied. Audio

An report due to be released today into former chief executive Nigel Murray at Waikato DHB is a draft and needs more work before being published, the DHB says.

Drug buyer Pharmac is reassuring the public that supplies of the Gardasil vaccine will be replenished today.

The former Waikato District Health Board chief, who resigned amid a spending controversy, racked up $218,000 in expenses during his three years at the DHB.

Patients and their doctors are calling for better care for a hidden but debilitating condition that hits young people and extremely hard.

Health Minister David Clark wants to be assured district health board chairs are "on the same wavelength" as the government.