Benefits include faster recovery and fewer side effects.

Appointments are being postponed and rescheduled ahead of a nationwide junior doctors strike starting next week.

A doctor used the names of six people to get prescription drugs for herself.

Demanding hospital rosters are having an adverse effect on junior doctors around the country.

How many times over the years have we seen the junior doctors' union complain about the unconscionable hours they work in public hospitals?

DHBs planning for life-preserving services during resident doctor strike

Union says resident doctors' working hours are unsafe.

Gabrielle Stuart looked at what five years of belt-tightening for the CDHB could look like for the community.

Hundreds of people in Auckland and Otago are being given preventive antibiotics

A 1-year-old baby boy was this morning burned after pouring a cup of hot coffee over himself. The incident happened at Gulf Harbour

A 20-month-old boy was taken to hospital suffering moderate injuries in Auckland this afternoon.

Behaviour by supporters of women in labour have prompted calls at one hospital delivery suite to limit the number of family members attending a birth.

A Westport family had to take their elderly relative to Buller Hospital on Tuesday night because a St John ambulance couldn't come for 90 minutes.

Uto Enosi Tuipulotu came to Akaroa to support his family back in Tonga, but now is in Christchurch Hospital battling a rare form of cancer.

More than 180 people have died in flooding along the Yangtze River in China after torrential rain. Eleven million dollars is going being pumped into Dunedin Hospital, for a new critical care unit.

A man in his 60s who was injured in an electrical accident at a Christchurch fertiliser plant remains in intensive care at Middlemore Hospital.

Seven fire crews are battling a fire at a women's clinic in Auckland.

Five-year-old Saoirse Gaffney went to the doctor with a sore tummy last month, only to be told she had an extremely rare cancer.

The Government today top-up after subcontractor prices came back higher than expected.

Middlemore Hospital has been designated a National Spinal Cord Impairment Centre, and has bought a new O-Arm and Navigation machine.

"Terrible" alcohol-fuelled violence that requires police dogs and Tasers to deal with is an example of why stricter booze controls are needed.

Under a new measurement system, it is estimated that between 60,000 and 80,000 patients are being sent back to their GP for care each year.

Documents released to the Labour Party showed the funding gap at these DHBs ranged between $500,000 and nearly $2 million.

To demand "savings" from the country's district health boards is good economics but brave politics.

Minister Coleman labelled 'cowardly' over refusal to comment on DHB leave blowout.

A new outpatient facility will be completed in 2018 and is to be located directly opposite Christchurch Hospital.

A mother says a hospital discriminated against her injured son by sending him home with fractured facial bones, saying they would probably heal by themselves.

More than 70 upper North Island health workers have been disciplined for snooping into patients' records in the past three years.

Christmas has come early for sick kids at Starship as Maria Tutaia delivered a special supply of New World's "Little Christmas" collectibles.

Results from a ground-breaking study into the rate of alcohol-related harm in NZ and Australian emergency departments point to a "public health emergency".