Police are investigating after attempts were allegedly made to hack a nationwide patient database.

A breast cancer lobby group is urging women to read their own medical files and talk to their GP, after a doctor forgot to tell a woman she had cancer.

Louis Cheftel was born prematurely with severe to profound deafness in one ear and is likely to be the first child in the country to have a cochlear implant for single-sided deafness.

Some medications marketed to target back or period pain, or specific cold and flu symptoms, contain the same ingredients as pills sold for standard pain relief.

A leech therapist and his wife have lost their appeal against a court decision ordering them to pay back a $164,698 loan they received from a dying Australian woman.

Cerise Lawn says pregnant women must speak up when things don’t look right, after signs of distress were overlooked and her baby was left struggling with disabilities.

A boy who was born without ears has had a pair created from his own ribs.

If you're in a hurry to meet your maker, a religious pilgrimage may be the most direct route.

Scientists are searching in an unlikely place for the next big breakthrough - New Zealand's postcard hot springs.

Thousands of Kiwis are ordering medicine online to save money, but experts warn doing so could be dangerous.

One baby has died and 14 others are fighting for their lives after being poisoned in NHS neonatal care units in the UK.

Personal medical records - including prescription history, laboratory results and personal details - will soon be made available online to patients and their health care professionals.

Antibiotic use needs to be curbed if there is to be a slowdown in the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, new research says.

Nearly 250 packages of medications that were investigated when they crossed the country's borders, have prompted Medsafe to warn about the dangers of ordering medicine online.

Obesity might be a risk factor for gout, but new research has suggested that being overweight doesn't make the condition any worse.

Professor White is at the centre of a large international research programme into an experimental drug, darapladib, which has been shown to halt the progression of the necrotic core, the gunk, in heart-artery plaques.

As Jo Griffiths lay in a coma in Wellington Hospital's intensive care unit, her teenage daughter was asked to make a call.

Three doctors and a medical student have been arrested after locking themselves together as part of a NSW coal mine blockade, protesters claim.

Half of patients who are diagnosed with cancer in Britain today will be "cured'', according to the authors of landmark new research.

New Zealand doctors are said to be backing the findings of an Australian study that says homeopathic remedies do not work

Amillion-dollar microscope has allowed Kiwi scientists an unparalleled window into the human body, shining a new light on everything from Parkinson's to irregular heartbeats.

Fertility Associates, the country's largest fertility services provider, has opened its first clinic in Malaysia.

The cost of new "generic" versions of Herceptin and other such pharmaceuticals looks likely to become a casualty of the TPP agreement, writes George Laking.

Prostate operations become safer and painless with more accurate, powerful device.

A doctor who quit the United States amid controversy over an alleged affair with a patient had already been working in Hamilton for a month.