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.

Scientists at a top-secret military research unit at Porton Down, Wiltshire, have been assessing the potential use of Ebola as a bioterrorism weapon.

It's not often the All Blacks can be accused of running scared but there are genuine fears over July's historic match against Samoa in Apia following an outbreak of a mosquito-born epidemic.

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.

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.

The British nurse being treated for Ebola is now in a critical condition after her health "gradually deteriorated" in hospital.

Having a sometimes debilitating disease is tough for many people. But it can be especially difficult for their children.

More New Zealanders died from Alzheimer's disease and chronic kidney disease last year than in 1990, a study has found.

A New Zealand nurse who spent time working in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone says an end to the outbreak is in sight.

Bob Geldof has launched his own version of the Ice Bucket Challenge in order to promote his charity single, Do They Know It’s Christmas.

The British nurse who survived Ebola has described the new Band Aid charity single as "cringeworthy".

Kiwi scientists have attracted global attention for shedding new light on how our cells switch their genes on and off - an important step to understanding disease.

Not being "out" with their homosexuality is resulting in a spike in numbers of Asians in New Zealand being infected with HIV, the NZ Aids Foundation says.

A blood-borne, tick-carried parasite, which causes serious a disease in cattle, has been identified for the first time on the West Coast.

A swine flu survivor has called for more people to be vaccinated after a study found on average 400 New Zealanders die each year from influenza.

International research with its roots in Auckland has produced a breakthrough that could yield a new type of drug treatment for tuberculosis.

At least 20 New Zealand doctors or nurses have expressed interest in travelling to West Africa to treat Ebola victims, as the Government confirms it will pay for volunteers to travel to the region.

Same studio, same month, but several new faces, most of whom were not born when the first Band Aid single was recorded three decades ago.