A panel including actress Lucy Lawless are pushing the benefits of medicinal cannabis.

After the call from the hospital, Karin Kinny needed to get to the hospital, fast.

Potential benefits need to be weighed against the arguments for potential risks.

Labour MP says move is a "subversion of process".

Simon Bridges: "We must have the right regulatory and legislative controls in place."

World-renowned Kiwi researcher Stephen Robertson is offering hope to families everywhere.

Family of Kiwi surfing legend want antibiotic they say crippled and killed him banned.

Antibiotic caused tremors, insomnia in late Kiwi surfing legend, his family, doctor say.

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Charlie Goldsmith has been called a fraud, but Angela Cox can't explain what she saw.

AUT has signed a deal with a medical cannabis start-up ahead of a law change.

The six-year legal battle has come to an end in the Supreme Court.

The 81-year old biotech consultant says dementia is the world's greatest medical problem.

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Sexual harassment is rife in the medical profession, female doctors and union say.

Doctor indecently assaulted mental health patient on ice-skating trip.

The number of stroke sufferers could increase by 40 per cent in just the next decade.

Otago University's Professor Anna Ranta discusses stroke risk and research. Source / Otago University

Rural GPs say healthcare in regions is affected heavily during peak tourist season.

Batches of a medicine used to help babies pass wind have been taken off shelves.

Once valued at $14.3b, Holmes' company was a house of cards built on secrecy and lies.

A mother trying to care for her sick child was distraught after he sat on a thermometer.

Statistics show more and more Māori and Pasifika students training to become doctors.

A family finally has access to legal, medical cannabis. But the costs are crippling.

But the union is pleased with the panel's recommendations around staffing.

Ardern responds to Trump's speech suggesting US eyeing Trans-Pacific trade talks again.

Renowned chemist humbled to be joining a fellowship that includes her childhood heroes.

For years Kendra Jackson thought her runny nose and headaches were due to allergies.

An overwhelming majority of doctors are confident in childhood immunisation, study finds.

We may be facing a bad winter for flu viruses and growing asthma problems.