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.

COMMENT: The public can't protect itself if it's left completely in the dark.

A Kiwi scientist's research could yield a vaccine against an emerging deadly pathogen.

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.

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.

Cases of syphilis have hit a record high in Auckland, quadrupling in number from previous years, new research has found.

A mother-of-two who let her husband rot to death in their filthy, cockroach-infested home is to get just four years in jail.

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