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COP28: Health Day Highlights New Zealand Climate Change Needs
New Zealand's Assisted Dying Law Review: Equal Access Questioned
Managing Slow-Burning Risks Vital Amid Incremental Environmental Change
New Zealand Workers Face High Exposures to Carcinogens, Require Improved Protection and Health Monitoring
Measles vaccination rate drops in Aotearoa's children
Schools Need Infectious Disease Protection Cloak
New Zealand's 3-Year COVID Response: 3 Ways to Improve
New Zealand Water Use Data Lacking, Raising Accountability Questions
Air Quality Impacted by Home Scents: Solutions for Scent Overload
Forget tobacco industry arguments about choice
New Zealand children face a 'perfect storm' of dangerous diseases as immunisation rates fall
Despite what political leaders say, New Zealand's health workforce is in crisis - but it's same everywhere else
Alcohol action is suicide prevention - MPs must act
New Zealand men get sick or injured more and die sooner than women - a targeted health policy is long overdue
Improving stroke care: what survivors say
Resurgent COVID-19, flu and other viruses are pushing New Zealand's health system to limit - and now winter is coming
NZMA Board recommend liquidation
Local Doctors have more say in Localities
World Health Day: Doctors for healthier planet
Building a better national system requires local partnerships
Dying alone: heartbreaking stories of death during COVID‑19 lockdowns
NZMA welcomes Interim Māori Health Authority funding
Two years on from first COVID case, New Zealand's successful pandemic response still faces major challenges
Vaccination programme failing those with mental health and addiction issues
Lack of support for women who have early miscarriages, study finds
Most challenging phase of Omicron outbreak is yet to come, but New Zealand may be better prepared than other countries
New Zealand Medical Teaching Awards 2021
Despite Omicron arriving, keeping schools open as safely as possible should be goal
Incoming double-whammy: time to declare Health Workforce Emergency New Blog Post
Doctors: It's better to be busy with boosters
Hospital investment need to be matched with primary care investment
NZ Medical Association thrilled about bold Smokefree 2025 Action Plan
Is New Zealand prepared for Omicron's inevitable arrival?
Suicides fall during pandemic
Clearing air: make more outdoor pedestrian spaces smokefree, researchers urge
New Zealand's mass vaccination event lifts uptake but highlights dangerous inequities as country prepares to open up
Why it's time to treat medicinal cannabis as an alternative therapy, not a pharmaceutical
Māori dished out pills to mask chronic pain, study finds
COVID-zero strategy may be past its use-by date, but New Zealand still has a vaccination advantage
Testing milestone tribute to health workforce
Conversion therapy has no place in New Zealand
NZMA welcomes Government putting health before profit
Why NZ is more vulnerable to a new COVID-19 outbreak than ever before
Why New Zealand is more vulnerable to a new COVID-19 outbreak than ever before
NZMA says yes to affirmative action in admission to medical school
Real challenge to COVID-19 vaccination rates isn't hesitancy - it's equal access for Māori and Pacific people
NZMA backs Govt plans to help Kiwis go smokefree
Climate policy that relies on a shift to electric cars risks entrenching existing inequities