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

Doctor who sat next to Pauline Cafferkey on flight back to UK says she may have contracted the disease while attending church service without her hazard suit on.

Brant Tohu has quickly come to love his hook, fitted to one arm this month after he lost both legs and both hands within a year to an immune system disorder.

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.

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.

With summer nearing, mosquitoes will soon be a common annoyance. So why do they like human blood?

Parliament was hit with an Ebola scare late this afternoon just hours after a similar incident at the Herald’s head office in Auckland.

A giant pink condom has been erected in Sydney’s Hyde Park as part of a campaign to promote HIV awareness.

Auckland Hospital has devised a 91-point checklist for Ebola safety.

Thousands of New Zealand multiple sclerosis sufferers will gain a greater sense of normality with the funding of two revolutionary drug treatments from tomorrow.

Green MP Steffan Browning says lending his support to a call for the use of homeopathic remedies to combat the Ebola epidemic was 'probably pretty unwise'.

Passengers on an Air New Zealand plane were kept on board amid fears of a contagious virus.

He lurches towards me across the space between the kitchen bench and the dining table.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says three people arriving in NZ from West Africa have been cleared of Ebola after temperature monitoring.

All her son wanted to do was hold her hand. But like most Ebola victims, Dr Stella Adadevoh died without a loved one to comfort them in the dreadful final hours.

Some 67,000 people could be dead from Ebola by December in just one city in Liberia, according to a new analysis of the rate at which the disease is spreading.

It took less than a week after arriving in Hawaii for me to believe I was going to die from Ebola or be wiped out by a hurricane.

The United States has tightened restrictions on travellers arriving from the West African countries gripped by an Ebola outbreak, funnelling them into five airports with extra health checks.