Kiwis' use of antibiotics has soared, indicating widespread inappropriate use for viral coughs and colds, experts say.

Former All Black Keven Mealamu faces off with a pupil from Maungawhau School to help St John get a new ambulance.

Bernadine Oliver-Kerby talks with St John Chief Executive Officer Peter Bradley on the growing concern of assaults on St John ambulance officers.

Emergency department doctors are calling for a ban on National Crate Day after Waikato Hospital was inundated with drunk patients after Saturday's celebrations.

Ena Lai Dung died in a pool of her own urine and faeces, starved, dehydrated, neglected and in extreme pain. Today Cindy Taylor was sentenced for Ena's death.

A sixth person has died almost a week after Melbourne was hit by an unprecedented thunderstorm asthma outbreak.

Hospitals are increasingly at risk of cyber criminal gangs who seek to steal patient data and hold medical instruments ransom, experts warn.

A number of other patients remain in intensive care and one person is critical, the health minister said today.

Some 700 lives a year are being saved in hospital emergency departments by the controversial six-hour target, new research indicates.

Two men have been charged with the murder of South Aucklander Clayton Ratima. The men, aged 31 and 32, will appear in the Manukau

District health boards report bad stuff that happens to patients

A Whanganui cancer patient has had to make five return trips to Palmerston North in a month for treatment that he said was previously

Steven Schroeder is typical of most men - he put off getting a medical issue checked. But he hopes his tale will help others.

Two investigations are under way into the suspected suicide of a mental health patient who had fled a psychiatric hospital and was missing for weeks.

They're exhausted, but striking Whangarei resident doctors found time to do some good in their community during their brief time off

The number of patients being treated at hospitals across the country dropped to about 85 per cent today as the 20 DHBs cope without

The University of Auckland has hit out at plans by Waikato University for a new medical school, calling it "ill conceived" and costly.

Thousands have non-urgent surgery or appointments delayed

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 mother who forced her children to undergo unnecessary surgery in order to orchestrate England's biggest ever benefit fraud, has been jailed.

In his new book Things That Matter, Middlemore Hospital intensive care specialist Dr David Galler discusses stories of life and death including his mother.

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.