Health workers have presented management of a mental health facility with a vote of no confidence after hundreds of assaults by patients.

A man who drank six bottles of hand sanitiser while being treated in hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the antibacterial gels to be better secured.

The patient, a mum of two, had a severe stroke which left her virtually unable to talk.

An American doctor has finally produced a drug which offers a solution to the problems which killed patients in several New Zealand hospitals 40 years ago.

Foreign patients treated in New Zealand hospitals owe the system at least $19 million.

The ACC has admitted it has been rejecting too many claimants seeking elective surgery.

Patients being given the wrong prescription occurs "a lot", according to the Health Quality and Safety Commission, but a new system should help prevent cases like the tragic death of Shirley Curtis.

Writer Shonda Rhimes gave her characters an incredible shake-up when she wrote the shooting storyline into the final of Grey's Anatomy's sixth season.

A 28-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Auckland toddler Seini Unaloto Ikamanu. Seini, also known as Jane, was injured at her parents' home in March last year and died in December.

An expert says many more babies would survive if the country quit smoking and reduced its obesity.

An Auckland doctor solves medical mysteries that have her colleagues stumped. Andrew Laxon asks her how she does it