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.

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

Super bug threat needs strong response, microbiologists say.

It's not Pharmac's responsibility to pay for women's sanitary products.

Conjoined twins Lupita and Carmen refuse to be separated despite serious health risks.

Waikato University's bid for a medical school has greatly perturbed Otago and Auckland.

Two-year-old tot Ka'iulani Forbes is fighting a rare cancer called Neuroblastoma.

The truth about whether or not this common recommendation for jellyfish stings works.

Govt will not introduce a formal policy to protect medical cannabis users.

Pharmac has funded two new drugs targeting advanced melanoma.

The Government is being urged to do right by those affected by a controversial drug.

Doctors are obliged to treat everyone, but some patients can test their professionalism.

Research showed there was likely to have been a significant effect on memory.