Wellington, Feb 10 NZPA - Biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies (LCT) says it has traded some of its cells from its quarantine herd of New Zealand pigs for a 10 percent stake in a US-based wound healing company.

Wellington, Dec 10 NZPA - Australia's decision today to lift its ban on implanting animal tissues in humans may cost New Zealand a share of its cutting-edge research into using pig cells, says a company doing trials here.

Wellington, Nov 15 NZPA - New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands died today, soon after being flown to Auckland on a medical evacuation flight.

Wellington, May 11 NZPA - The Government has approved a $208 million upgrade for Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today. He said it would create more than 1000 jobs in south Auckland and meet its growing need for hospital services.

Health Minister David Cunliffe has approved a clinical trial involving the transplantation of pig cells into humans.