Health & Bodies
The first Covid-19 vaccines will be in NZ next week
NZ border workers will be first to receive the Pfizer jab.
Talking to Guled Mire about his award-winning mental health series
Last night the Re: series Third Culture Minds, hosted by Guled Mire, won the Mental Health Service Awards of Australia and New Zealand’s Special Media Journalism…
The first Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for use in NZ
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has been provisionally approved by Medsafe for use in New Zealand.
It is the first Covid-19 vaccine to get sign off in New…
New Zealand is the best place to be during Covid, says new report
And today there are no new community cases of Covid-19.
40 percent of MDMA in NZ this summer was actually cathinones
Drug checking organisation Know Your Stuff has found nearly 40% of MDMA was actually eutylone.
2020 broke records for sex toy sales
2020 saw the largest year of sex toy sales in history for Wellington-based online retailer Adulttoymegastore.
"We've never seen anything like 2020 in terms of sales of…
I have an invisible disability. It feels like I'm ignored by our health system
If you become disabled as a result of an accident in New Zealand, ACC will pay for your treatment. But those disabled through medical conditions, illness…
Drug checking will be made legal in NZ in time for festivals this summer
Drug checking allows people to safely find out what's really in their pills.
These patients have been given a prescription for nature, rather than pills
A number of Kiwis are opting for fresh air and exercise instead of depending on traditional Western medicine.
A green prescription is an instruction from a health…
Covid-19 Live Updates
The key facts you need to know about Covid-19 in Aotearoa.Monday 1 October
Auckland will move to level 1 this Wednesday at 11.59pm.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made…
Covid-19 Live Updates: 3 new cases
The key facts you need to know about Covid-19 in Aotearoa.Sunday 23 August, 1pm
There are 3 new cases today. One is linked to the Auckland cluster…
South Auckland is sick of being singled out
Many Pasifika feel they’re being cast in a negative light, once again.
Auckland moves back into alert level 3 lockdown, rest of country moves to level 2
There are four new cases of Covid-19 in Auckland, believed to be community transmission. There is no clear link to a managed isolation facility or to…
Observations of a rural nurse
Photographer Sara McIntyre has lived in the tiny town of Kākahi for the last ten years. She’s spent most of that time working as a district…
Most women literally tear during birth but only a fraction are funded for physio care
Many women experience health issues after giving birth, but only a fraction receive funded care.
Explainer: the euthanasia referendum
The referendum that could make it legal for some terminally ill patients to choose their deaths.
Lockdown is over but agoraphobia means I'm still locked inside
Katie Meadows writes about the pain of seeing others go outside while she is still locked in.
Covid-19 Live Updates: two new cases
Check in here for the key, verified facts on how New Zealand is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
1:30pm Sunday 21 June
Today there are two new cases.…
Next gen Covid apps could be used to spy on us if we don't get privacy controls right
New Zealand is Covid-19 free, but the government still wants us tracking where we go and what we do on the NZ Covid Tracer app. In…
Covid-19 Live Updates: First day at level 1
Check in here for the key, verified facts on how New Zealand is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
1:00pm Tuesday 9 June - day one at alert…
People with obsessive compulsive disorder say lockdown allowed their condition to thrive.
Sam is a typical 23-year-old who works nine to five in an office job. At 14, he was diagnosed with contamination obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and has…
New Zealand’s made it to zero Covid cases, but our contact tracing apps had little to do with it
New Zealand is now Covid-19 free.
To keep us here the government has asked us to put our trust in an out-of-sight solution. An app that’s still…
Covid-19 Live Updates: Sunday 24 May
Check in here for the key, verified facts on how New Zealand is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.1:00pm Sunday 24 May - day 11 at alert…
Students with disabilities are hoping online learning wasn't just a Covid phase
University classes start back in-person this week, and students will once again have to drag themselves out of bed to get to class. But those with…
Covid-19 Live Updates: Day 13 of level 3
Check in here for the key, verified facts on how New Zealand is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.1:00pm Sunday 10 May - day 13 at alert…
We asked five people with chronic illnesses for advice on staying home all day
New Zealand may have dropped to alert level 3 but we’re basically still in lockdown, and being able to leave our house to socialise and travel…
Some people with social anxiety are dreading life after lockdown
Lockdown has provided relief to people with social anxiety. The ban on socialising outside of our bubble means some no longer need to force themselves to…
A therapist tells us how to take our good lockdown habits into the future
They say it takes 30 days to make a habit, and during lockdown we’ve all developed new behaviours - some good, some bad. Now we’re free,…
A handy journal to help keep track of your movements during Covid-19
When we move out of lockdown, we’re going to visit a lot more places and bump into a lot more people. We’ve designed a handy journal…
Covid-19 Live Updates: our last day at alert level 4
Check in here for the key, verified facts on how New Zealand is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. 1:00pm Monday 27 April - day 33 of lockdown,…