Discount pharmacies like the Chemist Warehouse and Countdown supermarket stores absorb the usual $5 prescription charges as a loss-leader model.
The 'Famous Five' will swim, run and bike the North Island from top to bottom to raise money for Gumboot Friday.
Eco-anxiety, also known as climate change anxiety (anipā o te huringa āhuarangi), is a chronic sense of fear or worry about the impact of climate change.
The numbers cover the week from Monday January 30 to Sunday February 5.
Health agencies are asking anyone on a flight from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne and who then flew on to New Zealand, to contact them if they have not been approached already.
Te Whatu Ora says a network power outage is to blame, and is investigating why automatic back-up generators failed to activate.
On Jessie Watson's 33rd birthday she was told her two-year-old son had cancer.
Participants who reported just three episodes of even a mild concussion had a reduced ability to concentrate and complete complex tasks.
The outage "affected all systems including power, IT and phones", the hospital said in a statement.
It comes after councillors unanimously agreed to fund a public campaign protesting design changes to the city's new hospital.
The seven-day rolling average is now 1508, down from last week's figure of 1979.
"Do not use your washing machines until further notice and keep your showers short," Watercare said.
Patrons will no longer be able to smoke and vape at hospitality venues on council-owned land, even outdoors.
The figures show there were 30,000 people waiting longer than the four month target for their planned surgery at the end of October.
"There’s no one untouched by this," microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Breakfast.
Between July 1 and September 30 last year, just 65% of children in Counties Manukau were fully vaccinated at six months old.
Panicked fans raised the alarm over her welfare following her seventh removal of her account in less than a year.
A new study has found users are more likely to receive content about stopping hormonal contraception rather than how to use it or have safe sex.
Fresh stock arrived in the country just before Christmas but took longer to go through quality assurance and dispatch due to the holiday period.
Scientists say it's opening a new frontier in the fight against disorders afflicting our most complex and mysterious organ.