The record-breaking sunny weather this summer has led to an increased risk of skin cancer, with a big increase in the amount of dangerous ultraviolet radiation.

A Kiwi mum who lost a battle to prevent the British health service giving her son radiation therapy for a brain tumour says the treatment has been worse than she feared.

Imagine you have cancer. You are sitting at home with your laptop, connected simultaneously by video to your GP, radiologist, surgeon, oncologist and a cancer specialist from Boston, who will come up with your combined care plan.

The boy who has featured in the shave-your-head-for-cancer campaign since 2011 is in remission from his serious blood disease.

Gravely ill broadcaster Phillip Leishman has slipped into a coma.

The rose garden at the hospice became a haven in the weeks leading up to my mother’s death 25 years ago.

The Government is being sued for allowing gamblers to smoke at SkyCity casino in a landmark case which could see the end of smoker-friendly areas at bars and restaurants.

Kiwis in Antarctica have braved sub-zero temperatures, snow flurries and early morning wake-up calls to take part in a 12-hour relay for cancer awareness.

Discarded fish eyes are being used by a Kiwi scientist to help early detection of diseases like diabetes and cancer.

A Hawke's Bay woman with terminal cancer was among those vying for a shot at the big time at X Factor auditions in Napier.

A world champion yachtsman was mistakenly cleared of cancer when pathologists misread his biopsy. Now Murray Crockett is spending his dying days fighting for compensation to help support his family.

A study has linked soft drinks to depression - with diet versions particularly problematic. Coffee, however, appeared to have the opposite effect.

After losing his wife sooner than either of them imagined, Greg Murphy spent the year settling and coming to terms with a life without Natalie.

A charity in memory of Chace Topperwien, the little boy whose brave cancer battle captured the hearts of thousands, is living up to the legacy left by its namesake.

NZ company Pacific Edge Biotech is on track to roll out its product to the US, Australia, Spain and Portugal.

A British High Court judge has ruled a seven-year-old boy will receive radiotherapy for a brain tumour against the wishes of his mother - whose judgment, the judge says, has "gone awry".

Rodney Gordon has taught teenage boys for more than 20 years. Now some of them are combining their efforts to try to help save his life.

The mother fighting to stop radiotherapy for her young son's cancer has denied she would flee with him to NZ. Sally Roberts gave evidence in the High Court at London for a hearing to decide whether 7-year-old Neon should receive radiation therapy.

Gambling with your health is second nature to young people.

Murray Crockett survived prostate cancer, only to be diagnosed with advanced melanoma. Now he is hanging on to the hope that he can be given a new drug.

Squeezing malignant breast cancer cells stops them from spreading, returning them to a healthy state, new research reveals.