COMMENT: Science isn't controversial: refusing to vaccinate your child could harm others.

The family of a pro-immunisation doctor have been attacked by the anti-vax community.

EDITORIAL: Professor gives back to institution where she nurtured generations of students.

The world's next big antibiotic could lie hidden in our native fungi.

Super bug threat needs strong response, microbiologists say.

An alarming new study explores a form of mistreatment by sexual partners.

Scientists found injecting blood from umbilical cords of babies restores brain function.

University of Otago has received a $150,000 explorer grant.

Health services working with family and church at centre of typhoid outbreak.

Australia has had an outbreak of tuberculosis after a doctor wrongly diagnosed a case.

A victim of the first person prosecuted for infecting others with HIV opposes court cases.

Ministry is concerned untreated water could harm New Zealand's natural environment.

Sexual wellbeing of elderly ignored, finds study.

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

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.

A successful blend of human and pig cells may improve chances for for human organ transplants.

An Auckland-based doctor's ground-breaking research - involving lab-cultivated, living, beating heart cells - could land a blow against a major killer of Kiwi children.

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