A new poetry prize has been launched to honour Auckland poet Sarah Broom who passed away in April at the age of 41, just before her collection Gleam was published.

Ten siblings around the North Island have given up alcohol for Dry July to raise money for cancer patients.

Navy ex-servicemen suffering ill health from the fallout of French nuclear testing at Mururoa are calling for a special remembrance day.

A father whose 5-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer has been stricken with terminal melanoma just as his only child has come to the end of his treatment.

New Zealand missions to observe French nuclear tests were a global PR victory ... but the men who went see another side. Wayne Thompson reports.

Wayne O'Donnell was a stoker in the engine room of HMNZS Canterbury in August 1973 when it witnessed a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll.

An experimental surgical knife can help surgeons make sure they've removed all the cancerous tissue, doctors reported.

A brazen thief distracted staff and stole money from a young Greytown boy's fundraiser for his sick grandfather.

Four of New Zealand's brightest young technologists are in Russia hoping to take out a prestigious student competition with an anti-skin cancer smartphone app.

Women eating two helpings a week of oily fish such as salmon may gain protection against breast cancer, claim researchers.

Auckland has been credited with "leading the way" in the fight against sunbeds after passing a bylaw that requires all commercial sunbed businesses to be licensed.

A melanoma survivor says while regulating the sunbed industry is a step in the right direction, the council should go one further and ban them altogether.

Years of hard work will finally come to fruition for New Zealand biotechnology outfit Pacific Edge when, on Monday, the company's sales team will hit the road in the United States, the world's biggest healthcare market.

Ikaroa-Rawhiti byelection candidate Te Hamua Nikora says previous health problems forced him to quit a marijuana habit.

What price the Grim Reaper? You've got months to live, staring down the death sentence imposed by terminal cancer.

The number of women ringing the breast cancer helpline tripled following Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a double mastectomy.

Women who regularly use talcum powder to keep fresh increase their risk of ovarian cancer by almost a quarter, according to new research.

Alan Perrott talks to people with the inside track on what’s out to get us and finds out how that knowledge affects their daily lives.

A young cancer patient who has just finished his treatment is already thinking of others.

New Zealand breast cancer experts say a British study doubting the effectiveness of breast screening is alone in its assertions, and could persuade women to forego vital mammograms.

Successful women may be more likely to develop breast cancer – and stress at work, including prejudice, discrimination, and resistance, could be to blame.

Oral sex is often the first of many forays into sexual intimacy we experience as fumbling teenagers.

Two women with children in the same kindergarten were amazed to discover they had similar stories of being affected by bowel cancer.

A day after publicly announcing his cancer was in remission, Kiwi cricket legend Martin Crowe has officially launched his autobiography detailing his battle with the disease.

Michael Douglas says he'd win a Nobel Prize if he knew exactly what caused his throat cancer.

Ardie Hickey has been battling a brain tumour, and boxer Bubba Tuigamala is getting in the ring to support that fight.

A Mana Party candidate who kept $12,000 that had been given for his cancer treatment says he was unable to give the money back.