About 100 people in New Zealand have probably been infected with the Zika virus this year.

Eighteen per cent of GP clinics closed their books to new patients

Some will wait to 2020 to join scheme

The Labour Party is urging a rethink of one of the Government's key health targets after a group of surgeons revealed important operations were being put off in order to reach the strict target.

Calls to mental health helplines have spiked since the Kaikoura Earthquake.

The Government's new plan to get help for obese kids is proving a turn-off to many parents.

Study finds behavioural, social or cultural influences are important in maintaining smoking behaviour for Maori/Pacific females.

An app for endometriosis sufferers is launching to help gather data on what those working with the disease are calling an issue "we can no longer ignore".

West Coast had highest rate

Pike River widow Anna Osborne will continue to self-medicate with marijuana after being told chemotherapy has failed to rid her of cancer.

Hospital admissions for intentional self-harm rose 4.6% from 2004 to 2013.

Government reshuffles fever programme money to boost awareness in Auckland

A Whanganui cancer patient has had to make five return trips to Palmerston North in a month for treatment that he said was previously

A handful of GPs do not provide zero fees for children under 13 - with most located in Auckland.

Only 39 per cent treated within target time

Housing New Zealand says it has only evicted five tenants from state houses on the grounds that their homes were contaminated by methamphetamine.

Two investigations are under way into the suspected suicide of a mental health patient who had fled a psychiatric hospital and was missing for weeks.

Work to uncover answers on the Havelock North water contamination incident which caused over 5000 people to become ill is under way

A proposed voluntary code on advertising to children features explicit restrictions on advertising of "occasional" foods and beverages.

New Zealand needs to provide much better care for the mentally ill, says a man who was rescued from a bid to take his own life.

Death rate consistent but still unacceptably high, judge says

Methamphetamine addicts are flooding New Zealand's rehab services, with some reporting an 80 per cent surge in demand for services in the last six months.

The mother of the first person to get approval to use medicinal cannabis in New Zealand has made an emotional plea to Parliament to make it easier for others to get access to the drug legally.

What does it mean when a person charged with murder is found not guilty by reason of insanity?

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

Experts concerned by role of social media

Medicine ads pulled off Chinese language sites after inquiries made.

COMMENT: To reduce inequality, politicians need to ensure Maori views are not frozen out by mono-cultural agencies and majority decisions.

Bacterial infection cause of death, post-mortem finds.

Community services are worried about the effect five years of district health board shortfalls could have on them.