A cancer vaccine approved in the US is potentially paving the way for effective treatments to become widely available in two or three years.

Australian authorities are investigating the death of a toddler within 12 hours of her receiving a flu vaccination.

Kiwis could get quicker access to new and expensive medicines - and the Govt's bill could go up - under a free trade deal with the US.

Animal rights protesters - and one beagle - picketed outside the venue for a speech by animal testing scientist Allen Goldenthal yesterday.

Scientists have identified the genes of the opium poppy responsible for the production of the painkillers codeine and morphine.