A national bowel screening programme will be rolled out after today's Budget set aside $39.3 million over four years.

An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration.

British TV chef Jamie Oliver is taking his food campaign to the Olympics in a bid to ban McDonald's and Coca-cola from sponsoring the event unless they meet nutritional and ethical standards.

After tipping the scales at 169kg, the Aucklander decided to make some big changes.

Experts have warned this faddy food advice is not only unfounded - it may actually be dangerous.

Researchers are planning to use images of women's own unborn babies to warn them against the dangers of smoking during pregnancy.

If you suffer from allergies, the month you were born in may have something to do with it - but scientists can't pinpoint why.

An obese Melbourne woman has shed 40kg thanks to selfies.

Is what we know about healthy eating all wrong?

Orion Health is targeting a return to profit in 2018 after reporting a 26 per cent increase in annual revenue.

The hills of Dairy Flat are alive with the sounds of music whenever James Wong, 7, and music therapist May Clulee get together.

The potato researchers are clear: they're not saying eating potatoes causes high blood pressure.

The new finding that could save more lives than any drug.

Two Levin schools have closed today because of a confirmed case of measles.

Hundreds of patients are waiting for elective surgery and at some hospitals higher levels of pain are being demanded just to get on the list.

According to Cameron Diaz, just a few minutes is all it takes.

OPINION: Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald explains the right way to give advice.

If a child naps at the same time every day for at least an hour, is it okay to dash up the road for a few minutes?

A video of a Melbourne chiropractor cracking a baby's back went viral, now the same practitioner is facing a temporary ban on treating anyone under 18.

She's had no luck finding her ideal man, so this former reality TV contestant has put a ring on it herself.

According to a recent study, pounding the pavements could help to ward off more than a dozen different types of cancer.

Stuck on the couch after hurting her knee, one woman was surprised she could lose so much weight simply by adjusting her diet.

A mother of three battling aggressive lung cancer married her soulmate - and died two hours later.

When is suffering so unbearable that euthanasia can be considered as the only option?

Many people talk about living their dreams a lot but ultimately very few actually do it.

The days of feeling over the hill at 50, 60 or even 70 are long gone.

The technique is expected to help young people with sports injuries, or older people whose cartilage is wearing away from osteoarthritis.

A new online tool calculates how much of your life you've spent asleep - and what you could have achieved if you had been awake instead.