The Kiwi nurse who sparked New Zealand's first Ebola scare is relieved to be home.

With more children coming to school hungry, a scientific study will for the first time guage the impact nutrition — or lack of it — has on learning.

Over 70 per cent of elite college rugby players regularly use sports supplements, making them more likely to intentionally dope in the future, a survey finds.

The bad guys are always one step ahead. That was the reality with party pills and it is much the same with illicit fitness supplements.

An exercise supplement containing a banned psychoactive substance was still available for sale yesterday despite Ministry of Health officials deciding it should be pulled from shelves.

The supplement salesman who won't lie about pre-workouts: "They have stupidly toxic amounts of caffeine. It drives you mental so you train like a crackhead."

Herald investigation shows makers of pre-workout supplements are always trying new tricks to beat government bans.

Kiwis are getting healthier, but New Zealand still faces serious health issues, especially in the most deprived areas.

It's ten years today since smoking was banned in bars, but Maori are still more likely to smoke than Europeans. We map where the ethnic smoking gap lies.

Doctors question if an already stretched workforce can cope with the govt's ambitious target to treat every cancer patient within two months.

Nearly every cancer patient will have to receive treatment within 62 days under an ambitious three-year plan outlined by the Government today.

About 200 cruise ship passengers have been confined to their cabins after the norovirus bug struck the Dawn Princess while on a trip around New Zealand.

New Zealand and Australia have abandoned efforts to establish a joint therapeutic products regulator.

NZ medics will be sent to Sierra Leone to work with Ebola patients as part of a joint Anzac effort with Australia.

A discredited claim that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism and bowel disease could be the reason for the spread of measles in the latest outbreak.

Auckland has become the nation's first city to ban under-18s from using sunbeds, and commercial sunbed operators will now need a licence.

Kiwis attempting to sidestep doctor’s fees while holidaying in Australia could soon be turned away from Sydney hospitals.

Personal medical records - including prescription history, laboratory results and personal details - will soon be made available online to patients and their health care professionals.

A taxpayer-funded South Auckland disability support provider which received $30 million last year is investigating its own accounts.

Three patients lost their lives after St John's life-saving defibrillators failed in a blunder linked to the ambulance service's poor record keeping.

The Government will ban all synthetic drugs within two weeks until they can be proven to be low-risk, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has revealed.