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.

Health technology company Orion Health, which is expected to list this year, has signed a new deal to work with the Waitemata District Health Board, starting with two wards at Auckland's North Shore Hospital.

Kiwis attempting to sidestep doctor’s fees while holidaying in Australia could soon be turned away from Sydney hospitals.

Karyn Freer rewarded her family with smiles when she emerged from an operation to remove surgical mesh that scans showed was eating into the flesh below her belly button.

Hamilton's measles epidemic is growing with 53 cases confirmed including one where the person was fully immunised.

Mental health nurses are speaking out against brutal violence inflicted by their patients, including being punched, kicked, burnt and stabbed and choked.

One baby has died and 14 others are fighting for their lives after being poisoned in NHS neonatal care units in the UK.

Nearly 40 per cent of hospital staff report have been assaulted at work by patients or relatives of patients in the preceding year, a survey has found.

Thousands of critically ill or unconscious patients have been enrolled without their consent in clinical trials to test treatments in New Zealand hospitals.

The Waikato District Health Board has lifted its ban on women having their labours and births photographed professionally - provided no intervention is required.

A cleaning supervisor at an Auckland hospital was sacked for failing to ensure critical areas, including operating theatres, were properly cleaned.

When surgeons proposed amputating part of Renata Muunu-Te Tane's left leg to eradicate cancer, his parents were understandably shocked - but another shock was yet to come.

A giant Easter egg hunt kicked off yesterday to raise money for Starship children's hospital.

An uncle of a young mother who died six hours after giving birth says changes must be made so new midwives are mentored after graduating.

The collapse of the Southern District Health Board's computer system could affect elective surgery and other procedures at Dunedin Hospital.

Karen Rowan feared she would die of pain while a surgeon operated when she was fully awake but unable to call out because of an anaesthetic failure.

A young midwife has begrudgingly admitted she was out of her depth when a mother collapsed while trying to deliver her baby, an inquest has heard.

A young mother-to-be who fainted while giving birth was having an amniotic embolism that would kill her not long after, a medical expert says.

The lead maternity carer of a woman who died after giving birth told an inquest a family member threatened her saying: "You are going to pay for this, I'll hunt you down.''