Unnecessary prescriptions could lead to serious long-term consequences.

By better understanding how our brains work, can we change how we feel pain? A world-leading Kiwi neuroscientist, back in New Zealand, talks to science reporter Jamie Morton.

Kiwi scientists just helped reveal how newly-understood genes are likely to play a role in our bodies.

Health officials say nations need to take action as bacteria build resistance to drugs.

A Tauranga school principal says substandard housing in the city is making children sick - with 11 of her pupils hospitalised within

New research co-authored by a New Zealand scientist has linked deforestation to the deadly Ebola virus.

Kiwi researchers will investigate whether microbes found inside our gut could hold the key to battling the development of diabetes.

If you have more than two children you're at risk of heart disease, new research suggests.

Just weeks after becoming a nanny to 2-year-old Talia, Kiersten Miles put herself on the line to save the little girl's life.

There's a strange side to one of the country's wealthiest citizens.

Kiwi scientists have helped gauge the power of a promising new drug to treat a rare, fatal disease in children.

Climate change scientists have projected continued global greenhouse gas emissions would heat Northland heat up more than other regions

Experts at Boston University claim to have discovered the game-changing test

A recently-discovered cannabis-like substance naturally produced by our brains could play a role in treating Parkinson's disease.

Leisa Renwick was fighting for her own life when she decided to fight for the lives of others dying from melanoma.

How narcissistic are Kiwis?

Creamy pav and delayed health care could help explain increased heart death rate

Don't fall foul of campylobacter this festive season; cook chicken all the way through and wash down surfaces exposed to raw meat.

An Auckland mum is petitioning Parliament to give Pharmac more money to fund treatment for rare diseases.

A 20-minute procedure called flexible sigmoidoscopy can reduce the subsequent risk of bowel cancer by 43 per cent. This is the biggest

According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is helping Massey University research into Ebola and other deadly diseases be received on the world stage.

About 100 people in New Zealand have probably been infected with the Zika virus this year.

The percentage of young adults in the UK who have taken cocaine is higher than anywhere else in Europe.

A world where DNA can be rewritten to fix deadly diseases has moved a step closer.

Scientists have made an HIV breakthrough, discovering an antibody that neutralises majority of the virus

This Aussie island is anything but paradise for a whopping five per cent of its residents who are at risk of or suffer from Machado-Joseph Disease.

First users of advice "toolkit" report more exercise, smaller meals.

An army of mosquitoes will be infected with bacteria and released into Brazil and Columbia to combat the Zika outbreak.

Tauranga's new mayor is wasting no time putting his new role to a good cause. Greg Brownless will be among those taking part in a