Health Minister Simeon Brown says the lower age of 58 for the bowel screening programme will apply to Tairāwhiti residents next year. The Government’s expansion of the free bowel screening programme ...

Bowel-cancer screening in New Zealand will improve health cost effectively, according to University of Otago research just published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

From Monday, the starting age for free bowel screening will be lowered from 60 to 58 in Northland, Auckland, and the South Island, with the rest of the North Island to follow in March 2026, Health ...

Fears the Waitemata bowel cancer screening blunder will stall a national-wide roll out of the programme. The error was due to addresses not being updated in the ...

Look out for blood in your poo as well as bleeding from the bottom when you go to the toilet. Bright red blood may come from ...

You can reduce your risk of developing bowel cancer just by adopting a healthier lifestyle. Some helpful changes you can make ...