Andrew Marshall
RSV outbreak: Officials warn worse to come
The potentially fatal respiratory illness RSV sweeping hospitals around the country isn't slowing, with medical professionals warning there's worse to come.
Children's wards are under extreme… Audio
RSV virus sending babies to hospital
There are more than 20 babies in Wellington hospital's children's ward, many on oxygen, as the spread of the potentially deadly RSV virus escalates.
There is a warning the flu-like disease has yet to… Audio
Call for folic acid in bread to curb birth defects
Folic acid added to flour has been preventing anencephaly and spina bifida in Australian babies - saving lives and curbing costly, dangerous birth defects - since 2009, and scientists are demanding… Audio
Calls for a new children's hospital for Wellington
Brendon Bowkett, a paediatrician at Wellington's Capital and Coast DHB, says the current facility is too small and old to deal with growing demands and lacks a proper air conditioning system. Backing… Audio