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New Zealand medicines regulator Medsafe has granted provisional approval of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid, for adults 18 years and over

The Board of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has announced that the College will not proceed with its registrars’ first year clinical exams that were planned to commence at the end of February 2022

Negotiations for a collective agreement between 10,000 PSA health workers and DHBs have broken down and union members are to vote on whether to take strike action. Negotiations began in 2020

A laboratory study* conducted in Slovenia has found that throat lozenges containing the ingredients Benzydamine Hydrochloride (BH) and Cetylpyridinium Chloride (CPC) show promising signs of killing the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as reducing the risk of viral transmission

Smoking cannabis leads to lung damage, but in a different way to tobacco, new University of Otago research has found

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission has presented at an oral hearing on its recent submission on the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill

With New Zealand in the red level of the Covid Protection Framework, the country’s largest medicinal cannabis summit will now be run virtually on 10 and 11 February

Pharmac has today confirmed the access criteria for two COVID-19 treatments – baricitinib and casirivimab with imdevimab (branded as Ronapreve). Both will be available for use in DHB hospitals from 1 February 2022

The Government has announced a three phase Omicron plan that aims to slow down and limit the spread of an outbreak, Associate Minister of Health, Dr Ayesha Verrall announced today

New Zealand’s PCR testing capacity can be increased by nearly 20,000 tests per day to deal with a surge in cases as part of our wider COVID-19 testing strategy, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall said