Shan Inglis, the lawyer wife of Auckland mayoral candidate Len Brown, has throat cancer and needs urgent treatment.

American billionaire Josephine Robertson, a major benefactor to the Auckland Art Gallery, has died.

The HPV vaccination could mean more women with cervical cancer will not be diagnosed, health officials have warned.

British doctors have made a dramatic advance in the understanding of breast cancer which could shorten treatment, save millions and see fewer women undergo mastectomies.

It's billed as the test to scare smokers into quitting, but now some public health groups say it may encourage some to keep on puffing.

The life of Beverly Jean Morrison, better known as the singer Beaver, was celebrated with song, laughter, tears and many fine stories on Saturday.

Te Hamua Nikora is the Maori men's posterboy for what not to do about your health - but he's still a ridiculously handsome one, he reckons.

New Zealand musician Beaver - best known for her role in Blerta and for performing the theme song to the 1980s Kiwi television show Gloss - died yesterday.