The Family Court in Queensland has authorised the parents of a profoundly disabled girl to give their daughter a hysterectomy.

Two men who suffered brain injuries after falling 60m from Lion Rock had been drinking alcohol, police say.

A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl tried to fend off the group of teenagers who viciously bashed a South Auckland police officer.

A woman discharged from North Shore Hospital discovered nine days later that she had a broken back.

A four-year-old was hospitalised in Melbourne yesterday after falling onto a knife left in an open dishwasher.

Primary health services are set to undergo a big shake-up with some hospital services shifting into the community to create new super-clinics.

Rest-home nurses who rushed to an 82-year-old patient's scream found her on the floor with another patient's walking frame on top of her.

Ian McPherson writes that NZ needs a better strategy for coping with healthcare needs.

Under seige former All Black Robin Brooke is under further strain with his baby daughter fighting for her life in hospital.