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Peter Dazeley/Getty You’re standing in a supermarket aisle, weighing up whether to buy a microwave meal or a bunch of fresh carrots. We all know making healthy eating choices can be tough. That’s especially true if you are hungry, or have a hungry household to feed. There are so many reasons for thi...

FG Trade/Getty Amid major reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), unveiled last week, NDIS minister Mark Butler announced the government’s plans to commission supported independent living services for people with disability, “rather than relying on a market that isn’t working”....

Олег Мороз/Unsplash Data from Australia’s wastewater drug monitoring program suggests methamphetamine use (also known as speed, ice or crystal meth) is at a record high. Cocaine is also up. MDMA may be levelling off. Heroin is fluctuating. At first glance, these findings from the Australian Criminal...

MoMo Productions/Getty Images You might have heard people talking about their nervous system being “overloaded” or “dysregulated” when they’re going through periods of heightened stress. Or perhaps you’ve been offered ways to “heal” or “reset” your nervous system on social media or at expensive well...

In a landmark achievement for Caribbean public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates The Bahamas for becoming the latest Caribbean nation to be certified as having eliminated the mother-to-child transmission of HIV. “I congratulate The Bahamas on this outstanding achievement, whi...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on people everywhere to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as the twin engines driving better health, under the World Health Day 2026 theme: “Together for health. Stand with science.” The campaign marks the anniversary of...

More than ten days into the latest escalation of conflict in the Middle East, health systems across the Region are coming under strain as injuries and displacement rise, attacks on health care continue, and public health risks increase. National health authorities in Iran report more than 1300 death...

As Ukraine enters the fifth year of full-scale war, its people have endured the highest number of attacks on their health care in 2025 – increasing by nearly 20% compared to 2024. Since the beginning of the full-scale war on 24 February 2022, WHO has documented at least 2881 attacks on health care i...

Getty Images Touching the lives of an average 110 people each day in Aotearoa, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is much more common than any of us would like it to be. Yet it is often misunderstood, underestimated and too easily dismissed as someone else’s problem. We know these injuries – sustained whe...