A doctor who accepted $150,000 from an eccentric dying patient has escaped sanctions by moving to Australia.

International research shows a commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug can cause the risk of serious muscle damage, but University of Otago researchers say the risk is minimal.

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.

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.

A doctor who gave up his medical licence in the United States while under scrutiny for alleged professional misconduct is now working in Hamilton.

The medical workforce is becoming increasingly feminised, the Medical Council 2012 doctor workforce released yesterday shows.

Drug-resistant "superbugs" represent one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine, leading experts warn.

Workforce predictions are haphazard at the best of time but doctors take the cake.

Nearly 100 graduates have missed out on jobs in Auckland hospitals because of a recruitment drive by northern health boards to attract foreign doctors.

A "life-changing" new drug designed to treat the hepatitis C virus can almost treble the cure rate for patients, studies have shown.

Western Australia is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars flying in surgeons, nurses and doctors from as far away as Oman to cover shifts in remote and rural areas.

There's a saying in autism circles that a worried mother does better research than the FBI.

The Kiwi baby stranded in Shanghai after being born three months early is growing stronger each day.

Robbie Ritchie never imagined he could raise enough money for an expensive lifesaving surgery in just six weeks.

A brain injury specialist has established a link between early-onset dementia and playing rugby, as well as other high-injury sports.

Being English, making a fuss is as painful to me as losing a kidney.

Women at Auckland City Hospital will be given a version of the men's erection pill Viagra in the first comparison trial of the medicine to treat a pregnancy complication.

Geraldine Rees says she would consider taking Viagra if faced with a re-run of her horror pregnancy with her daughter Cerys.

Voltaren and other forms of diclofenac carry a risk of cardiovascular events including heart attacks and strokes, Medsafe has warned.

Northland doctor Lance O'Sullivan says his upbringing helped drive his efforts to lift the quality of healthcare for Maori.

The family of Zachary Gravatt, who died of meningococcal disease at Auckland City Hospital, have received a payment "in recognition of their losses".