With a prescription and the right contacts, Baden Ngan Kee bought himself an extra year.

Large-girthed men may have to practice abstinence till May thanks to a condom shortage.

Two-year-old Jai Anstis has spent half his life enduring multiple seizures every day.

New strain added to this year's flu vaccine, after problems with effectiveness overseas.

Patients say they're suffering over Pharmac's move to cheaper, generic anti-depressant.

It's been a year and no decision has been made on funding for cancer drug Keytruda.

"I'm just so happy that we finally have some good news on the medical side of things."

Trade Minister David Parker says investment settings are more important than trade deals.

Labour has repeatedly called for an early access scheme to be established.

Motorists, low-paid women workers, and veterans will all benefit from July 1 changes.

Opposition parties reveal what they want to see in the health budget on Thursday.

"Psychiatrists are far more accepting... that ADHD can exist in adulthood."

Pharmac could soon fund new treatments for insomnia, HIV, Hep C and others.

Government's drug-buying agency rejects request to fund women's hygiene products.

Pamela Jones is looking forward to growing old with her husband thanks to new cancer drugs

Pharmac has funded two new drugs targeting advanced melanoma.

For every sanitary product bought by a company, another will be given to a high school for free.

Some Rotorua women and medical experts say a suggestion to have sanitary products funded by the Government is a great idea because

Protesters want the legalisation of medicinal marijuana to be an election issue.

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As 2016 draws to a close, the NZ Science Media Centre picked some of the biggest national and international science stories that made headlines

An Auckland mum is petitioning Parliament to give Pharmac more money to fund treatment for rare diseases.

Pharmac announced today it would start funding the breast cancer drug Perjeta, but 160 Kiwis who have already started treatment won't be eligible.

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

A young woman with a body riddled with fast growing tumours, who was left in a three-week limbo by Pharmac, has finally got funding for the drug she needs.

For Olivia Fryer, three weeks could be everything but that's how long she's been waiting to find out whether a drug she needs to fight cancer will be funded by Pharmac.

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.

Otago University scientists have taken a first step towards what could eventually be a Keytruda-type drug to fight cervical cancer. They

Pharmac happy to consider application to fund erection drugs for prostate cancer patients.

NZ Cancer Society medical director Dr Christopher Jackson discusses urgent worries around New Zealand's systems for reviewing and funding ground-breaking new cancer drugs.