An Australian woman has been successful in her legal bid to secure her dead partner's sperm so she can have his child.

Why alcohol makes you feel warm - and other strange effects it has on the brain.

Disgraced blogger Belle Gibson could be forced to publicly apologise for claiming to have cured her terminal cancer with healthy food and natural therapies.

For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort.

Elspeth Muir examines the culture of binge-drinking that she, too, fell into and the deeper issues it may conceal.

A million selfies are taken every day but psychologists warn the 'cult of me' has grave consequences.

COMMENT: Pregnancy doesn't discriminate between the prepared and the utterly unsuspecting. It just happens. And thus, so does abortion.

As research has found that wearable health devices are actually only 40-80 per cent accurate.

Dubbed the Millennial Meltdown - it's a very easy trap to fall into.

We often worry about the future for girls, but it's boys who are locked in a crisis that's been building for a decade.

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.

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.

Scientists say packing more into the day increases the opportunity to learn new things, stimulating and challenging the brain.

What's really going on in our minds and bodies when we fall "head over heels"?