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

New data showing an increase in long wait times for youth patients needing mental health help has been labelled "appalling" by a local

Every time Deanna Trevarthen sees a Worksafe television advertisemen she shuts her eyes until her partner changes the channel.

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.

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 cancer patient is pleading with the Government to fund treatment for everyone exposed to asbestos.

COMMENT: The first time our son stuttered I burst out laughing. By the next day he could barely get a word out at all and it wasn't a laughing matter.

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.

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.

Otago researchers have found differences in health outcomes for babies born under the care of midwives compared with those looked after by doctors.

Health authorities are considering plans to move mental health patient Ashley Peacock, to the dismay of his parents.

Babies born under the care of midwives have suffered higher rates of damage than those whose mothers were looked after by doctors, according to new research.

The cash-strapped Canterbury District Health Board's money problems have got worse.