An insider’s guide to getting the most from your GP
Dr Tracy Chandler (aka Dr Wellness) explains how a preventative medicine approach can change your health.
Getting feet summer-ready
Maintaining an active lifestyle is great for improving and maintaining overall health; however, being active can take its toll on your feet. Blisters, sprains and strains, pain and fungal infections should all be managed...
Respecting the hole in our sky: preventing melanoma
New Zealand has the world’s worst rates of new melanoma diagnoses and deaths. Because of our population growth and ageing population, the number of New Zealanders diagnosed with melanoma is expected to increase over...
The sabre tooth tiger that’s still here – anxiety, masculinity and men’s health
Even men for whom middle age seems like a remote and abstract concept know that prostate cancer is something we’re all going to have to think about sooner or later, and while things like...
Patient portal opens door to personal health management
Managing your health and medical records online is becoming a reality with the development of patient ‘portals’.
ManageMyHealth is one such system that allows people access to their health information wherever there is an internet...
Simple lifestyle changes reduce the risk of dementia
Keeping an active mind and body is crucial to helping you continue to get the best out of life.
“If we enter old age with better developed, healthier brains, we are likely to live longer,...