Modern life is causing dementia to develop earlier than ever, according to new research.

Today, we know that lifestyle and environment interact with diet to affect our health, writes Charlotte Martin.

There’s no reliable test for it, yet the number of people with gluten intolerance is apparently on the rise in New Zealand. Greg Dixon tries to get to the bottom of the disorder.

Bored of an evening? You could always create an Algae Biofuel Lab as one 17 year old student in the US did to win a $100,000 science prize.

Minor surgery could be life-threatening in the future, warn experts in Britain and New Zealand.

Kiwi babies look likely to get free vaccinations against chickenpox and rotavirus later this year - up to six years after Australia.

At a secret location just north of Auckland, an experiment has started which might alter the face of New Zealand's $12 billion dairy industry.

The planned release of vast numbers of imported dung beetles could spread nasty gut diseases, Auckland's top public health doctor has warned.

A new, highly infectious strain of the norovirus stomach bug that has hit New Zealand has been linked to a death in Northland.

A new and deadly strain was behind most of the norovirus illnesses that affected dozens of people throughout New Zealand late last year.

Kiwis are being urged to take health precautions to prevent infection from a deadly strain of norovirus, which has already reached New Zealand.

Medical experts in New Zealand are bracing themselves for the arrival of a deadly flu that is sweeping the US which has already killed 20 children.

Overweight people have surprisingly beaten out your normal Joe Average on the mortality scale, a statistical survey of medical studies has shown.

A woman with a very rare debilitating disease was planning a trip to the United States for tests with stem cells before her death.

Health experts have condemned a "devastating" assault by the Pakistan Taleban in which five female polio vaccinators were shot dead in co-ordinated attacks across two cities.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic cost New Zealand hospitals about $31 million, a new university study shows.

A new vaccine that could be the world's first cure for coeliac disease is being tested in New Zealand.

New Zealand scientists have been approved to test a treatment for "the saddest of diseases" which involves injecting cells from a pig's brain into a patient.