Health

Secret review finds huge numbers of women weren’t told they needed cervical cancer screening

Hundreds of thousands of women weren’t notified they needed to be screened for cancer, Stuff understands.

Suicide bombing kills at least 14 people in Pakistan’s Swat Valley

Footage shows blast victims hurried into a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, after a suicide bombing.

Ogun begins Ogijo clean-up over alleged lead contamination

Ogun State Government commences remediation in Ogijo to address alleged lead contamination from battery recycling facilities, ensuring public health and en Read More…

Highway deaths dip in India for 1st time since Covid

Indoor air: Nigeria’s silent, unmeasured public health crisis

Nigeria faces a silent public health crisis due to poor indoor air quality. Learn why this unmeasured problem impacts health and productivity in offices, s Read More…

13yo boy dies in paddock crash involving suspected stolen car

A 14-year-old boy and 18-year-old man have been arrested and taken to hospital under police guard after a crash that killed a 13-year-old boy at Lake Macquarie in New South Wales.

'What was my fault?': How India's exam paper leak ended young lives

Two families reveal the human toll of India's medical entrance examination paper leak.

Wife of patient who died at Waikato Hospital says staffing levels and experience remain a concern

The 79-year-old had been missing from the ward for nearly an hour.

Trained neurologists quitting NZ due to lack of jobs and funding, experts say

Leading brain health and neurological organisations are warning the country is training specialists, only to lose them due to a lack of funding.

VIDEO: Fire destroys N500m property at Federal Mortgage Bank

A fire outbreak at the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria headquarters in Abuja destroyed N500m property. Learn how firefighters saved N9.5bn in assets. Read More…

Serious injury in Auckland shooting, man in hospital

Police were called after a man arrived at a North Shore hospital with an unexplained gunshot wound.

Police ‘determined to get answers’ after young man found injured in forest dies

A man has died in hospital after being found critically injured in a Bay of Plenty forest.