COMMENT: Putting the past year in perspective can be good preparation for starting the next, writes Jan Aitken.

Almost 60 cases of food poisoning are being linked to a farm selling raw milk, it emerged yesterday.

'Tis the season to consume more alcohol than normal, but the throbbing head that follows is not so festive. Here's how to avoid a bad hangover.

Generous Kiwis have donated thousands of dollars towards helping a young Auckland father who has been given only months to live. Ben

Quitline has revealed the top reasons New Zealanders who contacted them decided to give up smoking in 2016.

A brave woman has posted an image of her first time wearing a bikini, and the pic has attracted praise from strangers all over the world.

Dozens of women could have become pregnant with a stranger's child after a Dutch IVF clinic mixed up batches of sperm during fertility

A bodybuilder who uploaded a video of himself laughing at an elderly woman as she worked out has been banned for life from his gym.

Zirk Engelbrecht flipped forwards, backwards and into foam pits for six straight hours as people wondered if he'd gone mad.

Actress Carey Mulligan has urged people to keep close ties with relatives with dementia.

Evolution could be to blame for chronic hip pain, scientists have revealed.

Jasmin Floyd just thought she had a stiff neck. Little did she know she was growing a second skeleton that would eventually trap her in her own body.

People who have been the same approximate size for their whole lives simply do not understand what it means for your body to undergo such a radical shift.

First one, then another. Bite! Slap! Bite! Before you know it, mosquitoes are descending from the skies to disrupt your backyard summer

Born in a time where booze, sex and a hangover pie were a given, is this generation rebelling by giving it all up?

It took an injury and a push from his fiance to propel him into a career in fitness and now he has helped his partner lose 16kg in the lead up to their wedding.

A Nigeria teenage girl who spent her life being carried around in a plastic bowl because her body stopped growing has died.

After working so hard she collapsed, a Kiwi woman became a mental health advocate - she wants to share some tips to help you work life in 2017.

A man going through treatment for colon cancer won a restaurant's raffle for a year's worth of free pizza and then donated his prize to a food bank.

George Michael is dead at 53 and we're not sure why, but we certainly speculate.

A Christchurch mother who shed 20kg in nine months simply by slashing sugar from her diet is today launching a recipe book to help others.

COMMENT: Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald identifies the most important thing you can do for some battling depression.

• Philip Clarke is a Professor of Health Economics, University of Melbourne. Chris Schilling is an associate lecturer, Health

WATCH: A schoolgirl has become an internet sensation with her rendition of Hallelujah which has been watched 3 million times.

Prepare to get stumped all over again with a look back at the trickiest optical illusions from this year.

The mother of a disabled child claims she found an angry note posted on a car that shamed her for parking in a handicapped space.

Polly Gillespie shares her daughter Katherine's reaction as a young adult watching her parents break up.

It's that time of year when hay fever sufferers' symptoms flare up. Here's how to keep the allergies under control.

Liane Kupferberg Carter and her husband Marc can hear clearly again.

Studies show older generation are more likely to drink too much and smoke marijuana.