People with non-melanoma skin cancer are less likely to have a heart attack, break a hip or die early, new research says.

Dame Rosie Horton is not one to shy away from telling the truth, discovers Penny Lewis.

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly is going ahead with a tour of NZ next year, despite undergoing treatment for prostate cancer and Parkinson's.

Keeping active for half an hour a day can reduce the risk of cancer of the womb by nearly half, according to a study.

Shoes are an important part of any outfit but on Friday Neerali Parbhu will be making a deliberate fashion faux-pas to help children with cancer.

NZ's Vietnam veterans say it's "no surprise" a type of leukaemia is diagnosed at an elevated rate among them - it's what they've long known about Agent Orange exposure.

An alternative therapist who is accused of ensuring one of her patients failed to seek medical care says she repeatedly recommended the patient get hospital help.

British theatre mogul Andrew Lloyd Webber has been hospitalised in the UK, where he received his "12th general anaesthetic in 8 months".

The son of a Kiwi mother is recovering from the radiotherapy which he finally underwent despite her fears, with no signs of cancer on his last scan.

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.

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

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

A programme called Look Good Feel Better aims to give Kiwi cancer patients a confidence boost.

Hibiscus Coast runner Alison Bradley took the concept of travelling light to new heights as she jogged her away across America in an unofficial world record time.

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.