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.

Bringing peace of mind to 50 million people worldwide by 2030 is the ambitious aim of Auckland company MoleMap.

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

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".

Two years ago, at the beginning of the violence in Syria, I was asked to write a blog in the British Medical Journal on behalf of Medecins Sans Frontieres.

A Dutch company called Emotional Brain claims early trials of a new drug, Lybrido, show promise for women in the treatment of loss of sexual desire and that "pink Viagra" could be on the market as early as 2016.

Millions of arthritis sufferers could be increasing their risk of a heart attack or stroke by more than a third by taking large doses of drugs such as ibuprofen, one of the largest studies of painkillers reveals.

An Auckland woman says she owes her life to an eye test, after it led to a potentially fatal tumour in the lining of the brain being removed.

About 20 clowns have been accepted into New Zealand's first academic programme to become fully qualified medical comedians.

A bowel cancer screening programme pilot credited with saving 60 lives in its first year highlights the "outrage" of not rolling it out nationwide, University of Otago health services researcher Dr Sarah Derrett says.

Today, we know that lifestyle and environment interact with diet to affect our health, writes Charlotte Martin.

A woman whose skin is tearing away from her body is likely to get a transplant overseas after Kiwi specialists declined to carry out the procedure.

On what should have been his fifth wedding anniversary, Praveen Halappanavar was instead at a coroner's court, hearing a jury deliver a verdict of medical misadventure in the death of his wife.