The Kiwi nurse who sparked New Zealand's first Ebola scare is relieved to be home.

A second case of measles signals the disease has gained a foothold in Christchurch, health officials say.

While almost eliminated in most developed countries, New Zealand’s rate of rheumatic fever is 14 times the OECD average.

Rates of pneumococcal disease in New Zealand have plummeted since a vaccine was introduced, even among those who have not been immunised.

A Kiwi nurse who recently returned from Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone has tested negative for the deadly virus.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says negative result is “great news”, but a second test is required to confirm the result.

The Christchurch child diagnosed with measles has passed the infectious period and has been given the green light to return to preschool, with no secondary cases being reported to health authorities.

New measles outbreaks are the result of New Zealand’s historically low vaccination rates, says immunisation expert Dr Nikki Turner.

Passengers on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Auckland last month have been exposed to measles, public health officials have confirmed.

The Aids Foundation is investigating how a drug programme to prevent HIV in homosexual men could be introduced to New Zealand.

Two young children, aged under 10, are being tested for Ebola after being admitted to a hospital in Melbourne.

Researchers say gerbils, not rats, should be blamed for wiping out millions during the Black Plague.

A team of Kiwi nurses working as part of the international Red Cross Ebola response team in Sierra Leone got to meet Helen Clark this week.

Celia Lashlie, the Kiwi author whose work on the raising of teenage boys earned her respect around the world, has died this morning after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Acclaimed social researcher and author Celia Lashlie has cancelled all speaking engagements to stay home with her family in Wellington after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Health authorities could gain an unprecedented picture of how the flu spreads with complex models that reveal how we move among each other.

Celia Lashlie, the Kiwi author whose work on the raising of teenage boys earned her respect around the world, has terminal cancer.

The Republican Party was on the defensive yesterday after two of its leading presidential hopefuls indicated that they had sympathy for parents unwilling to vaccinate their children against infectious diseases, even in the midst of a dangerous outbreak of

The government has promised to disinfect it. But parents are wary as their children are sent back to school in what was recently an Ebola isolation centre.

An innovative concept which would override the damaging brain patterns of Parkinson's disease could give new hope to sufferers.

Schools are reopening, but in three Ebola-ravaged African countries, children have had their innocence stolen by a virus.

Brain, skin and testicular cancers are being found at higher rates in firefighters who trained at a Victorian fire training centre, a new report shows.

A Kiwi-led research breakthrough could see defective genes replaced with custom-designed DNA - a move that would combat hundreds of different diseases.