The baby desperately needed surgery but the surgeon was stuck 30km away in heavy traffic.

Aged care workers, counsellors in short supply.

Medical staff head-butted and had urine poured on them in attacks by patients.

The once-cool appeal of smoking to teens now appears to have been stubbed out.

The deprived and young women feature predominantly in self-poisoning cases in EDs.

An expert says weight limits for publicly funded fertility treatment should be dropped.

Feelings of disillusionment and exhaustion are driving specialists out of public hospitals

Only "matter of time" before last-resort gonorrhoea antibiotics will be of no use.

OIA documents show a breakdown in communication in handling of Auckland typhoid outbreak.

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If you're sick go to hospital, not the expensive after-hours clinic, urges social agency.

Orion to raise $32.9M in rights offer after posting full-year loss, sees profit in 2018.

Volpara, the Wellington-based digital health company, narrowed its annual loss.

An extra $879 million will be pumped into health in the coming year.

Macquarie Group lifted its 12-month target price on F&P Healthcare by 7.3 per cent

Health needs $1.1billion in extra funding just to maintain current care.

John Griffin got frustrated with A&E so he treated himself; with an electric fence.

Super bug threat needs strong response, microbiologists say.

The wage increase will affect 45 per cent of Ryman Healthcare's workforce.

The number of cases has gone up steadily over the past two weeks.

Find out which occupations command the highest salaries in NZ cities this month.

Auckland specialist's concerns over herbal ingredient have been confirmed by Medsafe.

Health officials visited church after woman died of typhoid.

Vital Healthcare extends buying spree with two Australian facilities worth A$27.6M

Kellie Aitchison has been left scrambling to help her tetraplegic son.

Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive.

Almost half of those with hip and knee problems have been denied a specialist appointment.

We asked New Zealand women who'd had an abortion to share their experience. These are their stories.

"Many girls believe their bodies are purging evil spirits": Actress Meghan Markle speaks out against the shame surrounding menstruation.

Residents in the Hawke's Bay coastal town of Waimarama are being told to boil their water before drinking it.