Wellington, July 16 NZPA - A report saying the Corrections Department should no longer be responsible for prison healthcare has been hailed by an inmates' rights lobbyist as an important and significant contribution to health policy.

Wellington, July 16 NZPA - The Government should consider transferring prison health care out of the Corrections Department and into the health sector, a National Health Committee report into improving the health of prisoners says.

Wellington, Jan 22 NZPA - The Government has appealed a decision by the Human Rights Review Tribunal which this month said parents who care for severely disabled adult children should be eligible to receive payment for their efforts.

Wellington, Sept 23 NZPA - Hundreds of men are unnecessarily dying of prostate cancer every year because doctors refuse to test them, a parliamentary select committee has been told.

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