Health & Wellness

Parental pay deal positive?

  Time may be on parents’ side if government plans come to fruition. While a Franklin organisation is pleased by the news, concerns remain that...

Staying sane when it is all feels too much

MICHELLE KEENAN empowers people and organisations to achieve optimal wellbeing by providing customised wellness coaching, Pilates, and yoga at her Waiuku studio. Right now it’s...

The most dangerous sentence in New Zealand

By MIKE KING, founding ambassador, I Am Hope Foundation In my line of work, I hear a lot of things that concern me. Young...

Flu hospitalisations highest in 10 years, Green Cross says

Even though winter is coming to an end, hospitals have seen a sharp rise in flu-related admissions with Auckland recording its highest weekly rate...

Cancer a gamechanger

It’s not a sentence we may expect to hear from someone who was told he didn’t have long left to live: “The most enlightening thing...

We’ve turned mental health into a waiting list

By MIKE KING, founding ambassador, I Am Hope Foundation A few weeks ago, I spoke to a young person who’d finally worked up the...

Getting daffy (and dilly) with it

Some of us are completely daffy about daffodils! Symbols of rebirth and new beginnings, daffodils have become synonymous with the Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil...

Dr who – time for a change?

While I know people stick with good GPs, which is why it can be difficult to find a place at a local practice, I...

Health system in crisis… again?

National has spent the last two years pretending they’ve hired thousands of new nurses, Labour health spokesperson Dr Ayesha Verrall contends. Verrall says that yesterday,...

Daffodil Rally ready to roll

Breast cancer survivor Jodi Tomlin knows first-hand why the Cancer Society’s work matters so much to so many. The Ararimu local, secretary of the Auckland...