Smoking researchers say NZ's top priority should be banning smoking in cars with child passengers.

The dental health of young children continues to be among the worst in the developed world, figures reveal.

North Island hospitals are receiving Christchurch earthquake victims and plan to send specialists to help in the devastated city.

A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.

Parents are being warned that unimmunised children will have to stay away from school for up to two weeks if they come into contact with measles.

A spiralling shortage of doctors has sparked a warning of future "severe safety issues" in New Zealand hospitals, with predictions that patients could suffer from increasing medical mistakes and treatment delays without urgent action.

Bribed with a free breakfast, many people will be leaving their cars in the garage and choosing to cycle to work today for National Go By Bike Day.

Visible cigarette advertising displays will go within nine months following tobacco law changes, if public health officials get their way.

Parents of newborn babies are receiving conflicting messages about sleeping with their newborn babies.

Scientists who cast doubt on the safety of exclusively breastfeeding babies until six months allegedly have links to baby food companies.

Overseas tourists claimed $1 million from the ACC in the last financial year, but the payouts benefited New Zealanders, the organisation says.

Researchers have cast doubt on the safety of the exclusive breastfeeding of babies until they are six months old.

Doctors and nurses are being recruited to run parenting programmes in a bid to intervene before unruly children turn into delinquent teenagers.

Thousands of New Zealand parents are going back to school to learn how to be better parents - but experts still do not know if the multiple programmes are reaching the parents who most need them.

Michelle Manu has been on the emergency list for a donated kidney for three years.

Smoking could 'virtually disappear' in NZ and many other developed countries within half a century, according to research.