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.

This hospital says it's never treated so many as emergency department numbers tick up.

Many Kiwi women can't correctly pinpoint their fertile window, a new study suggests.

Will we land on Mars? Discover alien life? Share our days with Artificial Intelligence?

Pair are seeking public help to raise money for bowel cancer treatment costing $18,000.

COMMENT: Termination of life is an anathema to most doctors, says Ron Jones.

A baby girl born with four legs and two spines has been separated from a parasitic twin.

That's the goal of a bold new project between Kiwi researchers and the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation.

Like many people, Deborah Hill Cone admired Jono Pryor's courage in sharing his feelings.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Going under the knife to lose her pregnancy weight was a decision that nearly killed her.

Unnecessary prescriptions could lead to serious long-term consequences.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

Kiwis have been revealed as being among the world's most prolific pre-loaders.

US politician and neurosurgeon Ben Carson reckons one zap can help your brain with total recall.

A brave mum has shared heartbreaking photos taken with her stillborn son after she awoke from a coma to be told he had been dead for three weeks.

Three-year-old Lily-Grace is knocking off the milestones in spite of dark prognosis.

COMMENT: Though the right to die committee is still hearing submissions, its members probably feel they have heard all the arguments.

A young couple in Sydney are looking for answers after a hospital cremated their stillborn daughter by mistake.

A 'masterpiece' in bioengineering could make sperm and egg obsolete.

Jonathan Lawson has extensive training in nursing, aero-medical support and intensive care. Now he's turning his hand to appearance medicine, with his new business which brings botox treatments into the home. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A woman married to a sufferer of the fatal "Elephant Man" condition that means his bones and organs won't stop growing says the disease doesn't scare her.

NZ research may hold key to disease treatment to stop spread from cell to cell.