Ten women will receive womb transplants following surgeons in the UK getting the green light to start treatment.

Many researchers now believe old-fashioned cheap drugs will provide the next big breakthrough in cancer treatment.

A Kiwi inventor's quest for cash to pay for incubators has attracted a helping hand from a father with reason to be grateful.

A doctor with terminal cancer who revealed that his dying wish was to meet his unborn daughter has published a book posthumously about his journey.

A man confined to a wheelchair is able to walk again after United States scientists reconnected his brain and legs.

A report revealing the extent of bullying among surgeons has shocked the profession, and it is vowing to change.

A Tauranga girl, born with a rare birthmark, has set her sights on a conference where she can meet professionals specialising in her condition.

"Making normal sexuality into a medical problem is an easy PR task with enduring serious consequences for the health of NZ women."

A Kiwi professor has developed a new treatment which may be the answer to helping those diagnosed with the incurable disease: asbestos lung cancer.

A Dunedin professor who invented the first drainage device for glaucoma has been honoured at a function at the Otago Museum.

Kiwi scientists have found in pig bladders a breakthrough that could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of a disorder which frequently catches its sufferers short.

The atmosphere in Kathmandu is one of fear and terror following the second major earthquake to hit Nepal, a Unicef official in the city says.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Nepal today, with a number of powerful aftershocks also shaking the beleaguered nation.

The Australian doctor who fled to Syria to join ISIS has hit out at claims he was brainwashed into making the move in an open letter.

The death of Jim Nicholls on the operating table was the fifth gallbladder case in two years that drew attention to surgeon Michael Parry.

Trekkers on Base Camp, many being experienced adventure seekers, relive their experiences of Nepal's earthquake.

A Kiwi anaesthetist volunteering in quake-ravaged Nepal says the most heart-wrenching sights are the things he can't help with - providing food and shelter.

Slouching on the sofa watching movies often isn't the best way to get study done, but for medical students, a trip to the DVD store can be good for grades.

The painkiller routinely prescribed to people with lower back pain may not only be unhelpful, it may actually be causing harm.

Angelina Jolie Pitt has announced she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to mitigate cancer risk.

Dr Greg Taylor has been a plastic surgeon for 30 years. He talks about alpacas, racing cars and middle-aged insecurity.

Medical suppliers' payments to doctors should be opened to public scrutiny, say a group of health and science experts.

Kiwis have slower and less access to the newest and most innovative medicines than their OECD counterparts, according to a report out this week.

It must be one of the weirdest health care procedures on offer and it just keeps getting weirder. Its clinical name: faecal transplantation.

Kerre McIvor writes: This week, an Aussie medical council made public a report concluding homeopathy is not effective for treating any medical condition. In effect, it's bunkum.

Jim Cleland has performed makeshift surgery on his Great Barrier Island dining room table, but now it's time to sell the $2m holiday home.

Pain-killing skin patches, prescribed for chronic pain and cancer care, can be deadly to children, health experts warn.