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.

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.

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".

Years of hard work will finally come to fruition for New Zealand biotechnology outfit Pacific Edge when, on Monday, the company's sales team will hit the road in the United States, the world's biggest healthcare market.

Robbie Ritchie's children are used to seeing their father having violent seizures. But what they don't know is that he could die at any time.

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.

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.

A million-dollar nationwide steroid dealing ring that involved banned medicines being posted around New Zealand has been smashed by police.

A champion bodybuilder has today admitted running a nationwide steroid dealing operation, pleading guilty to 156 charges.