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.

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says three people arriving in NZ from West Africa have been cleared of Ebola after temperature monitoring.

Family of former patients and staff at Starship Children's Hospital spent yesterday afternoon laughing and reminiscing about their experiences.

You've done it. Herald readers have cracked the $150,000 target of the Help Our Kids campaign to raise money for Starship children's hospital.

Clinical head of infectious diseases says hospital has spent the past three months getting prepared in case an infected person turned up in New Zealand.

Casey Nickson credits the "angels" of Starship for helping her to cope with life-saving surgery on her heart.

The odds stacked against Blake Mouat meant he had the first of many operations before he was even born.

A 7-year-old boy who was bored while visiting his dad at Waikato Hospital started spending his own pocket money on activity packs for sick children but needs more help.

Riley Ross was born with heart defects that would have killed him had they not been detected in a pregnancy scan and later corrected at Starship, his mother says.

When four generations work together the differences are often seen as challenges and sources of tension.

Tara Helm was 16 when she had surgery at Starship to correct the abnormal curvature of her spine.

Lucy Lawless tweets her appreciation as donations for Help Our Kids campaign to raise money for Starship hospital pass the half-way mark.

John Key says Government takes threat "very seriously" as he announces new measures to prepare for suspected cases.

The woman accused of abducting a 5-day-old baby from Middlemore Hospital can now be named after she appeared in court today - her birthday.

Kayla Nield and her brother Bodee have had around 30 procedures between them at Starship's operating theatres to help them with a rare genetic condition.

There's a good chance Leighton Leevard wouldn't be the healthy and happy boy he is today if not for the staff at Starship.

Starship nurses dressed up as cats and a doctor wrapped himself in green bandages to look like a leprechaun in their efforts to settle a young leukaemia patient.

Jenna Searle has never let the loss of most of her left lung at birth hold her back from her love of singing.

Before Starship sick children were treated in a tired and run-down hospital. In 1991 all that changed, but the great hospital we know now had a difficult birth.

Starship isn't just an Auckland hospital - it's the national children's hospital. Here's why it matters to all of New Zealand.

Toby Cunliffe-Steel had a golfball-sized tumour in his brain. He wouldn't be here without the care Starship hospital provided.