The nasty Facebook post, with an image taken behind the woman's back, attracted a wave of criticism online.

The most recent statistics put New Zealand's suicide rate at about 11 people a week, almost 570 in a full year.

The FDA has announced changes to nutrition information on food labels in the US.

Health experts are worried that bacteria resistant to antibiotics could lead to superbugs that could cause untreatable infections.

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.

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

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

Legislation to hike the price of cigarettes to about $30 a pack by 2020 has passed with support from all parties except New Zealand First.

Bowel cancer survivor Peter Krijger is relieved that NZ will at last get a national screening programme to detect the disease at its earlier stages.

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.

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.

Do you want to be in the best shape of your life, despite your age? Dani Wright talks to Les Mills' head of fitness about keeping fit after 50

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.