Last week, a study suggested as many as a third of those told they have asthma may not actually have it. Here are four other conditions often misdiagnosed as another complaint.

There's a strange side to one of the country's wealthiest citizens.

Scientists create a prototype for a 3D bio-printer that is capable of printing functional human skins.

The hormone kisspeptin essentially switches on the desire to reproduce and is thought to be responsible for the sexual appetite of young people.

A new series looks at the changes and processes that occur in our bodies as we age, the conditions we'll be more susceptible to and how to prevent them.

A teenager has attempted to circumcise himself after being teased by his friends.

Zoe Marshall - wife of Kiwi league legend Benji - has adopted a radical diet in her bid to get pregnant.

COMMENT: I always find around the summer holidays there are two quite different, yet equally vivid, realities going on in my head at the same time.

A legal highs baron whose synthetic cannabis product was blamed for causing severe health effects and psychotic episodes is building a luxury waterfront home.

A Taupo toddler with an incurable tumour is beginning to show signs of increased mobility four weeks after starting on a medical marijuana spray.

Top-up a short-term measure, ministry says

Whanganui GP John Moore is retiring after 38 years on the job Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Leading ED doctors are calling for New Zealand's drinking culture to change because they are sick of dealing with drunks.

An everyday household product has a definite link to a brain disease, a scientist says.

An Auckland mum is petitioning Parliament to give Pharmac more money to fund treatment for rare diseases.

The model has revealed she suffers from Hashimoto's disease and her treatment messes with her metabolism which caused her to lose weight.

Telling people to "drink plenty of fluids" when unwell could be dangerous, doctors have warned.

A UK man who lost most of his genitals to a flesh-eating superbug after routine surgery has spoken out about his ordeal.

Beth fell asleep on the couch one day and didn't wake up for six months. Here's why.

A man with advanced prostate cancer is believed to be cured after doctors 'shocked' his tumour to death.

Scientists claim this simple blood test can help predict your chances of survival in the next five years.

A pediatric intensive-care unit nurse reveals what keeps her going in a job that sees her surrounded by heartbreak and hope.

Hospitals found to have manipulated data to comply with six-hour emergency department target.

EXCLUSIVE: A group of orthopaedic surgeons has accused Waikato District Health Board managers of stopping them from making follow-up checks on patients.

Two Australian women have been left devastated after being wrongly misdiagnosed with cancer.

Some 700 lives a year are being saved in hospital emergency departments by the controversial six-hour target, new research indicates.

A surge in Kiwis using anabolic steroids will be on the agenda at the centre of a major medical meeting this week.

Vaughan Somerville spent large chunks of his childhood and youth in Starship being treated for the complications of cystic fibrosis.

Martin Johnston talks to some of Starship's patients and staff on their 25th anniversary. He met Sadie Anderson, 2, who has cystic fibrosis.

Doctors have issued a warning about consuming too many energy drinks after a patient who had five cans a day developed the disease.