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August 20, 2018

A cancer patient Fair Go talked to would be happy to be able to grow just one plant in his new kitset greenhouse. (Source: Other)

Cancer patient Mark would be happy to be able to grow just one plant in his new kitset greenhouse.

However, it's been a thousand-dollar disaster, as Fair Go discovers.

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An injury every 15 minutes on NZ roads last Labour weekend

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The NZ Drug Foundation says 169 people died from accidental overdoses in 2025, although nearly half the cases remain provisional.

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Hamilton vascular surgeon Chris Holdaway

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Hospital beds line a corridor (file picture).

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An injury every 15 minutes on NZ roads last Labour weekend

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Accidental overdoses killed 169 in NZ last year - NZ Drug Foundation

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Hamilton vascular surgeon Chris Holdaway

EDS patients in limbo as Hamilton surgeon Chris Holdaway stops seeing patients

Hamilton vascular surgeon Chris Holdaway is no longer consulting patients with the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) who are also suspected of having abdominal vascular compression syndromes.

Wed, Oct 21

Hospital beds line a corridor (file picture).

Seven in 10 believe NZ health system in crisis - 1News poll

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