Natalie Rae died from a blood clot the day after being discharged from a Counties Manukau DHB hospital following a series of scans that were negative for clots.

A Herald investigation has found hundreds of lives each year would be saved if some of NZ's highest public hospital death rates were lowered to those of better-performing health boards.

A nurse who was gang raped claims she was bullied and then sacked as she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Middlemore Hospital in Auckland has beefed up security after a woman entered the maternity ward and snatched a two-day-old baby in January.

A 5-year-old girl is tracking the progress of a silver coin through her digestive system.

Tiffany Mitchell's paintings about her 4-year-old daughter Eva's fight for life to be auctioned for Cure Kids.