We take a look back at the best health stories of 2013. Photo / Thinkstock
We take a look back at the best health stories of 2013. Photo / Thinkstock
We've crunched the numbers and sorted through the stats and these are the biggest stories from the health & wellbeing section according to clicks from you guys.
Ever wondered just how depraved your city is?
Well, a tongue-in-cheek appraisal of New Zealand's vices has revealed Auckland as the country's centre of sin.
With data sourced from the New Zealand Transport Agency, Statistics New Zealand, other government departments and Zenbu, the Herald has plotted the 'Seven Deadly Sins' across each region.
Jared Noel has just one wish before he dies following a five-year battle with cancer: to see his yet-to-be-born daughter.
"My greatest hope is that I get to spend some time with her and enjoy fatherhood. She won't know me. She won't remember me. But I'd like to let her know how much I would have wanted to be there when she's 18, when she's 25," he said.
A boy who almost died of tetanus before Christmas is home and on the mend, but his parents are desperate for others to vaccinate their children after they did not.
Auckland couple Ian and Linda Williams thought they had made an informed decision against immunising their three children because of concerns over adverse reactions.
Gwyneth Paltrow credits close friend and trainer Tracy Anderson with transforming her body and says she is happier than ever with how she looks.
"I had exercised before I had met Tracy ... I had done Ashtanga yoga and pilates and I [ran] and I thought I was fit, you know?," Paltrow told Us Weekly.
When Angelina Jolie revealed that she had had a double mastectomy to lessen her chances of developing the cancer that killed her mother, she was praised across the world for her courage.
But in some corners of the internet, her announcement was greeted only with cruelty.
The former head of the Serious Fraud Office is mourning the loss of his eldest daughter after she choked to death on an Auckland street.
Chas Sturt and his family have been rocked by eldest daughter Natalie Sturt's death on a Mission Bay street last week, when a piece of roast beef she was cooking for tea became wedged in her throat.
Construction has begun on the world's biggest waterslide on a hillside west of Auckland, as part of a festival to help combat depression.
The 650 metre long waterslide, the brainchild of Auckland men Jimi Hunt and Dan Drupsteen, will be open for public to use during a two-day festival on February 23 and 24.
Funds raised will be used by the charity Live More Awesome.
Coca-Cola says there is not enough evidence to link the death of an Invercargill woman with her excessive Coke drinking, despite a coroner's report that found otherwise.
Mother-of-eight Natasha Marie Harris, 31, died of cardiac arrhythmia caused by poor nutrition and the effects of caffeine, Southland Coroner David Crerar said.
