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.

When Sam Hazledine did a drunken backflip off a two-metre-high wall and ended up in a coma with a head injury, it was a wake-up call.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.