The mother of a teenager who was found on fire outside his Tauranga home is desperate for answers.

A South African tourist who came to NZ to visit family is lying near death in hospital, after suffering a rare reaction to a common infection.

Drunk youths are turning up at Auckland emergency rooms at the rate of almost one a day, says the ADHB.

Doctors in England effectively froze a 16-week-old baby for four days to cure a potentially fatal heart defect.

Calls for mothers to stop sleeping with their newborn children are being ignored by some hospitals and birthing centres.