The family of a man whose body was found in the Waikato River have made a precedent-setting plea for legal funding to investigate his death.

An ointment used to treat common childhood skin infections is driving the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Warning: Graphic images. Victim's right ear was almost severed during fight with another woman at bar in Auckland.

Guests at Robert Mugabe's million-dollar birthday party were fed a young elephant, while a lion and a crocodile were also sacrificed as gifts to be stuffed.

A nurse has been stabbed while visiting a mental health patient in South Auckland.

Two new 'Alcotest Units' will enable quick testing of intoxicated patients at Wellington Hospital .

The mother of a baby who was snatched from an Auckland hospital says today's sentencing of the abductor helped to close the chapter on the horrifying incident.

Orion Health has blamed disappointing third quarter revenue, which sent the software developer's shares tumbling to a record low, on its own version of the "iPhone 6 effect".

Hospitals can be scary places for kids - so Radio Lollipop's mission is to put a bit of fun into children's wards while they are away from home.

An alert that activates when a baby is taken past a barrier is on the cards at Middlemore Hospital after an urgent security review into the kidnapping of a 5-day-old baby from the hospital's maternity ward.

Patients too often suffer in vain attempts to prolong life, because of the mandate to "do everything" for patients.

The Starship's long-awaited seventh operating theatre is scheduled to open for surgery today, but the full benefits of the expansion are still six months away.

A depressed mother who vanished with her newborn daughter in the English city of Bristol has been found dead along with her child, as friends accused hospital staff of failing her.

The mother of a baby kidnapped from Middlemore Hospital would like to see the findings of a review into security released as soon as possible.

Reducing potentially harmful delays for patients in emergency departments cost district health boards more than $52m, according to the first research to quantify the spending.

Norovirus, surgery for burns and trauma and the onset of "asthma weather" have combined to push one of Auckland's major hospitals beyond capacity.

An 87-year-old Auckland dementia patient's flight from a locked hospital ward has earned a nurse and the Waitemata District Health Board a rebuke from the country's leading health watchdog.

Thanks to the generosity of Herald readers, the Help Our Kids campaign for the Starship has ended on a high note, bringing in over $80,000 more than planned.

China's official Xinhua News Agency reported that six nurses and one caretaker were killed in a knife attack at a hospital in a northeastern resort town favoured by the country's Communist Party elite.

Two-year-old Southland liver transplant patient Elliott Gulliver has spent more than 100 nights in Starship, but her parents hope she may now be over the worst.

At 13, Celine Ceraudo started suffering disturbing symptoms which eventually put her in Starship.

Pies are expected to be cut from public menus at the Auckland District Health Board as officials try to make their hospitals into models of healthy eating and drinking.

Pushing, punching, spitting and biting are all behaviours emergency department staff have to deal with when treating drunk patients, a survey has found.

Two doctors who saved the life of a little boy met him again yesterday for the first time since he made a remarkable recovery.

Starship theatre staff are glad of the improvements in the first of their refurbished operating rooms - especially the new sound system.

A baby died in a water-birth, a mother bled to death after giving birth, and a mental health patient with motor-skills trouble choked on food and died.