Investors in a $286.2 million listed medical property business demanded information yesterday about a takeover by ANZ.

About one-third of swine flu patients admitted to NZ and Australian intensive care units had no underlying health problems, a study has found.

Patients needing urgent medical care are being turned away from Waitakere Hospital as the hospital struggles with staff shortages.

A large water rat attacked a woman as she lay in her bed, after she had mistaken the animal for her three-legged cat.

Auckland District Health Board and the Coroner are investigating the death of a 68-year-old woman's hospital death which has left her family mystified.

The number of patients in New Zealand hospitals attacked by "flesh-eating" bugs has trebled since 1990.

Many people with heart failure are getting ineffective treatment and face an increased risk of dying, a global study says. The NZ Ministry of Health agrees with the findings.

A Commonwealth Games medallist claims to have been maimed after being infected in hospital during a routine operation.

There are reports a man is wandering around the burns unit at Middlemore Hospital with a knife.

Police have launched a homicide inquiry following the death of three-year-old Palmerston North girl Kash McKinnon.

Emergency services called because of visitor's fears for 3-year-old girl who later died in hospital.