The US FDA is investigating the deaths of five people who took a new obesity treatment.

The deprived and young women feature predominantly in self-poisoning cases in EDs.

An elderly heart patient died hours after he was given 10 times the prescribed medication.

The family of Elaine Iketau are appealing for help from the public.

A Kiwi trial is exploring how Viagra may help underweight babies before and after birth.

With just seven cases per million people, Isabel was extremely unlucky to contract SJS.

World Health Organisation warns of untreatable strains of sexually transmitted infections.

UK doctor leaves BMA after vote favours decriminalising abortion, others set to follow.

New studies have left scientists divided over the use of paracetamol during pregnancy.

COMMENT: Maori do not need a third medical school, or one dedicated to general practice.

Doctors doubted he would survive, but he has just celebrated his 13th birthday.

Antibiotic resistance from gonorrhoea is just 'a hair's breadth' away, researchers say.

Can death be reversed? A US company's plans to start trials 'reawakening the dead'.

Has cancer finally met its match? Jamie Morton goes inside the immunotherapy revolution.

The bizarre accounts of children made unwell for their parents' financial gains.

A standard NZ psychiatry practice may violate human rights conventions, say researchers.

GP denies five counts of stupefying and eight of indecent assault after four men complain.

It may also play a role in fertilized eggs that fail to properly implant in the womb.

As obesity concerns grow, a plethora of bizarre treatments are making their way to market.

How the massive cyber attack has left patients facing delays and could have cost lives.

Could Rotorua's world-famous rotten egg sulphur pong be beneficial?

Thousands of lives may have been saved by a six-hour wait time target for hospital EDs.

Two years in jail for man guilty of selling steroids online.

He's 8 years old, has been to A&E 27 times, and has never felt a thing.

The world's next big antibiotic could lie hidden in our native fungi.

Pharmac could soon fund new treatments for insomnia, HIV, Hep C and others.

Scientists claim to have identified the offending enzyme and a way to block it.

NZ's consumer watchdog found many products weren't backed with scientific evidence.

A baby who was not expected to live after open-heart surgeries has started school.

Most kits lacked basic items and were pricier than making your own, the watchdog found.