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Key urges restraint in radiographers strike
Prime Minister John Key is urging striking radiographers to exercise restraint during contract negotiations.The radiographers walked off the job today for three days after 11th hour talks with the District Health Boards last night......
Lung cancer drug will be funded
Taxpayer funding of an expensive lung-cancer drug which has produced amazing, life-saving results for some patients will be announced today.The Herald understands the Government drug funding agency Pharmac will, from October......
The myth of wedded bliss
Any time marriage is talked about, it is always in sentiments of gravity, happiness, certainty and long-term commitment. Research also suggests it makes you richer, healthier and your children more successful. For example, in......
Sixteenth person dies from swine flu
Swine flu has claimed 16 lives this winter, and a further 14 people are fighting it in intensive care units.The sixteenth person to die was a 50-year-old man who suffered from underlying health conditions and died at Auckland......
PM to cancer patient's wife: He loves you, Rachel
Prime Minister John Key has appeared alongside actor Hugh Jackman in a video made by an Australian man for his Kiwi wife.Both Mr Key and Jackman feature on the film made by Kristian Anderson, a 35-year-old from Sydney who suffers......
Drug gives lung cancer sufferer two extra years
Taking a daily Tarceva tablet has given Trudi Hirzel at least two years of life that were probably going to be snatched away from her by lung cancer.Mrs Hirzel, 61, of Kawakawa in Northland, a non-smoker for the past 28 years,......
Cartoon : We need to X-Ray your writing hand
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Last-minute efforts to avert strike fails
Eleventh hour talks aimed at averting a nationwide strike by radiographers next week appear to have failed.Representatives of the country's district health boards (DHBs) met with the radiographers' union Apex in Auckland today......
Study finds babies' smiles may not be all they seem
If you want to tell whether your baby is in pain, looking at its face may not be enough, researchers have found.Generations of mothers have depended on their baby's facial expressions to tell them what they are feeling. But a......
Rugby: Doctor's lippy cover-up
A doctor who deliberately cut the lip of a rugby player to cover up a fake injury can continue to practise medicine, Britain's General Medical Council said yesterday. Wendy Chapman admitted cutting the lip of Harlequins winger......
Child packaging u-turn 'will save firms millions'
The Government has backed down on enforcing packaging regulations that were intended to protect young children against household cleansers and laundry powders.The changes would have forced manufacturers to change from using cardboard......
Strike action painful, say radiographers
An Auckland radiographer says she and her colleagues are distressed by the effect of their strikes on patients, but the action is necessary.Pamela Aitken, a 29-year-old union delegate and medical radiation technologist at Auckland......
The diet that can protect you against heart attacks
The health benefits of eating extra fruits and vegetables are well established: for years, children have been told that an apple a day will keep the doctor away.But now, scientists have identified a diet promoting a much wider......
Cell study challenges allergy theory for asthma
The long-held belief that allergies cause asthma in children has been questioned by Australian researchers.Research at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital and supported by the Asthma Foundation of WA suggests that cell abnormalities......
PlunketLine calls up with 24hr service
Calls to PlunketLine have increased almost 40 per cent since funding was increased last year to cover a round-the-clock service, says Health Minister Tony Ryall.Mr Ryall said $3 million was provided by the Government to support......
Americans plead for help in bedbug explosion
COLUMBUS - A resurgence of bedbugs across the United States has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night......
Surgery suspensions 'aimed to intimidate'
Other hospitals are likely to suspend surgery when radiographers strike nationwide next Tuesday.Vulnerable health workers are being suspended without pay to intimidate them into ending their industrial action, the laboratory workers'......
New scan shows key to migraines is in the genes
A revolutionary way of screening the entire human genome for the genetic signposts of disease has produced its latest success - the first inherited link to common migraine and a possible reason for extreme headaches.The technique,......
Sharing our eggs
It seems strange to me that we accept, even celebrate and make light of, the conception of a child through a meaningless one-night-stand, and yet when a couple make a thoughtful decision to try and acquire the healthy eggs of a willing......
Strikers' helpless victims
The parents of a baby girl are devastated after being told long-awaited surgery to help her to eat without a tube has been postponed because of hospital strikes.Seventeen-month-old Rebecca Jones has cerebral palsy and was to have......
Key urges restraint in radiographers strike
Prime Minister John Key is urging striking radiographers to exercise restraint during contract negotiations.The radiographers walked off the job today for three days after 11th hour talks with the District Health Boards last night......
Cartoon : We need to X-Ray your writing hand
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Westin workers to fight for their jobs
Westin Hotel workers, organised by the Unite Union, have issued a press release saying they have "vowed to fight for every job".The union is setting up a picket line outside the hotel today."These workers are asked to pay......
Authority upholds sackings for dangerous driving and cannabis
Appeals by two sacked truck drivers against separate employers have failed. One was dismissed for driving dangerously and the other for using drugs.The Employment Relations Authority found that both had been justifiably sacked.In......
Falun Gong cost me my job, says air hostess
A Qantas employee claims she was demoted from her international flight attendant job after being expelled from China for being a member of Falun Gong.Lawyers for Sheridan Genrich, of New South Wales, told a workplace relations......
Strike action painful, say radiographers
An Auckland radiographer says she and her colleagues are distressed by the effect of their strikes on patients, but the action is necessary.Pamela Aitken, a 29-year-old union delegate and medical radiation technologist at Auckland......
Keeping staff is in the balance
With many firms clamping down on costs as they navigate the gradual recovery from the recession, some bosses may decide to put ideas of helping staff maintain a good work-life balance on the back burner. But, says one researcher,......
New jobs on NZ's skill shortage lists
Scaffolders, automotive technicians, ship's masters, ship's officers and forest scientists will now find it easier to get a New Zealand work permit after their occupations were added to the list of skill shortages here.Changes......
KiwiSkills gets back to the basics
The Computer Society is trying to make New Zealand $1.7 billion a year. That's the amount it estimates is lost because workers and individuals don't have the digital literacy that allows them to use basic applications and systems......
Employment: The tough questions
QUESTIONS 1. Continued recovery or double dip? What does the next 12 months hold in store? 2. Has the much-talked-about problem of staff engagement decreased or is it still a major issue? What can be done? 3. Has the......
Strikers' helpless victims
The parents of a baby girl are devastated after being told long-awaited surgery to help her to eat without a tube has been postponed because of hospital strikes.Seventeen-month-old Rebecca Jones has cerebral palsy and was to have......
Impending layoffs due to efficiencies, says TVNZ boss
TVNZ has confirmed at least another round of layoffs this year but chief executive Rick Ellis says they are due to savings made from new digital technology and are not related to the advertising downturn or financial results of last......
Sacked pilot denied name suppression
A former Air Nelson pilot who was fired for having sex with a younger flight attendant and drinking excessively before a flight has lost a Supreme Court bid for name suppression.The pilot, who has interim name suppression until......
PM: Striking teachers 'disconnected'
Secondary teachers' plans to go on strike next month show they disconnected from the real world, Prime Minister John Key says.A one-day strike is pencilled in for September 15. Thousands of Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA)......
Law firm warns employers over 90-day probation
Employers are being warned not to treat the new 90 day probation law as a 'get out of jail free card', as the first test case of the Government's law is delivered in court.Law firm Chapman Tripp is urging employers to be careful......
All in a day's work: Culinary delights and cockroaches
Now I must admit, the classic kiwi pie isn't at the top of my list of snacks, but I do know for many New Zealanders the pie has a special place in their hearts (and their stomachs!).Well pie lovers, you can breathe a sigh of relief......
Strikes mean more cancelled operations
A new batch of health workers' strikes will mean further delays for patients awaiting surgery.The Auckland District Health Board yesterday extended its cancellation of virtually all elective surgery, after being notified of further......
Secondary teachers vote to strike
Secondary school teachers will walk off the job in two weeks after rejecting the Government's latest pay offer.The Government has offered 1.5 per cent - less than half of the 4 per cent that teachers were asking for.A spokesman......
Trade academy to chip away at labour drought
As many as 1000 extra forestry workers will be needed every year for the next 20 years, regardless of whether the current wood boom continues, says a 2008 Berl report commissioned by an industry educational body.Ian Boyd, chief......
Deborah Coddington : Harsh reality for employers when staff chuck their toys
At some point in their career, what worker doesn't want to grab the public address system and yell they're mad as hell and not going to take it any more? Then, like the JetBlue flight attendant at John F. Kennedy airport several......
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