An emerging, highly drug-resistant yeast strain is causing potentially fatal infections in hospitalised patients around the world

For 27-year-old Tessa Hopson, finding out medication may prevent breast cancer was "incredible".

COMMENT: Mental illness is on the rise. Figures reveal crisis referrals from 2010 to 2015 have increased, often substantially.

Kiwi researcher helps discovers drug that could counter faulty gene.

The last time 11-year-old Auckland schoolboy Harris Barfoot saw his friend James Slyfield they were both in Starship hospital battling leukaemia.

A trial testing two commonly used antipsychotics could offer new hope to multiple sclerosis sufferers.

Claims that NZ scientists are being silenced is something seen around the world, says a renowned author, doctor and outspoken science commentator.

Dr Ben Goldacre believes bad science is fooling the public. He takes aim at everyone from anti-vaxxers to nutritionists to the scientific establishment.

Mystery has enveloped the ginseng industry-the biggest customer for a small Canadian county has disappeared.

A team of Kiwi researchers have won funding to help tackle a mysterious protein that conspires against treatment for some forms of cancer.

Psychedelic drugs may find a place in the treatment of mental illness, say researchers who injected LSD into people and monitored their brains.

Steve Braunias sat with Helen Kelly, New Zealand's leading campaigner for medical cannabis, as she had chemotherapy this week.

Pike River widow Anna Osborne is set to self-medicate with medicinal marijuana - even if the move turns her into a criminal.

Most of the 120,000 casualties evacuated from Gallipoli were suffering from dysentery.

COMMENT: The cost and availability of expensive new medicines like Keytruda are still at risk from the TPP despite government assurances.

As a daughter who has watched her father lose his battle with cancer, I am empathetic to families who try to access cannabis products illegally, writes Michelle Dickinson.

An infant was given drugs 10 times stronger than they should have been after a pharmacy misread a prescription.

Remove the emotion from the debate, and there's been plenty of silly political point scoring on this, writes Barry Soper. Put yourself in the Pharmac's position.

Patients who have had miraculous results with melanoma drugs will join dying patients and their families to petition Govt to boost funding for Pharmac.

Govt aims to let drug be grown for medical or scientific use, but more change is needed, writes Alex Wodak.

A pain-free and revolutionary new way of fixing tooth decay in children is being rolled out by some district health boards.

Medical cannabis helped ease the suffering of a terminally ill teenager but did nothing to treat his epilepsy, a medical report says.

New Zealand has the highest rate of melanoma in the world yet we have no effective therapy for advanced melanoma, writes Dr Chris Jackson.

The cost of a game-changing drug has started the latest backlash over high medicine prices.

KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. has filed for bankruptcy after the arrest of former CEO Martin Shkreli knocked the biotechnology company's brief revival off course.

Painkillers work by blocking enzymes everywhere in the body, not just in the area causing pain.

Sir Douglas Myers is spending tens of thousands of dollars every month on chemotherapy drugs, including the new wonder drug Keytruda.

Two petitions are circulating for the funding of the new immunotherapy drug against melanoma, Keytruda.

Stroke sufferers could soon have their movements aided by a high-tech robotic exoskeleton being developed with the help of New Zealand researchers.