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.

Samuel Davy's incredible story kicks off the Herald-Starship Help Our Kids campaign. See how you can make a difference.

Help Our Kids is a Herald campaign that aims to raise funds for Starship, the national children’s hospital. Find out how you can donate and how your money can make a difference.

It's been 23 years since the Starship children's hospital opened, replacing a cluster of old buildings. But it's time for new theatres - and that's where you come in.

Actor urges New Zealanders to get behind the Help Our Kids campaign to help raise funds for the national children's hospital, Starship.

A man and a woman have appeared in court this afternoon charged with kidnapping a 5-day-old baby from Middlemore Hospital last night.

Middlemore Hospital says improved security systems from the last baby kidnapping helped a speedy resolution to last night's abduction of a five-day-old.

Police are hunting for a five-day-old baby who was kidnapped from Middlemore Hospital earlier this evening.

A one-year-old who'd recently returned to Victoria from West Africa was isolated after showing symptoms similar to those of Ebola.

What makes the Ebola virus so terrifying is not its kill rate or its exponential growth. It's the fact that it threatens humanity by preying on humanity.

An anaesthetic technician who stole hospital drugs and was high while attending to a patient in theatre is one of 22 medical professionals found guilty of misusing drugs over 12 years.

When Jamie Trower took a wrong turn on Mt Ruapehu as a 9-year-old, his life became a complex mix of medical jargon and rehab.

Children on feeding tubes are being taught how to eat and drink again in a pilot programme at Starship Children's Hospital.

Cases of winter flu have spiked up to twice the national rate in Auckland, with hospitals reporting a surge in admissions.

Readers shared their experiences with Hospital food across the country after the Weekend Herald reported on planned cost-cutting measures.

US patient Johnny Lee Banks sues doctors over circumcision that ended up as amputation.

Nutrition experts have warned a government cost-cutting team that patients could suffer malnutrition or even death under plans for cheaper hospital food.

Starship's operating theatres have reached capacity and are no longer fully up to the job, say leaders of the children's hospital.

At first, Asisi Kaufusi's parents thought he had a cold.

Melanie Walsh is watching her son Patrick make slow but delightful progress at their Auckland home after a lifesaving operation in the US for a rare heart condition.