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

An autistic advocacy group says a 4four-year jail term for a Blenheim mother who killed her autistic daughter was "nowhere near enough". Autistic

Doctors are at loggerheads over changes to New Zealand's cervical screening programme, with one saying more women will die.

Exposure to traffic fumes and noise was found to raise the risk of dementia by up to 12 per cent.

Quitline has revealed the top reasons New Zealanders who contacted them decided to give up smoking in 2016.

Doctors threaten to start the new year with strikes after roster talks break down.

ENOUGH: Bay of Plenty District Health Board acting chief executive Pete Chandler said panic alarms will be installed in standalone

NZ's AFT Pharmaceuticals expects to benefit from news that all medicines containing codeine will be prescription-only in Australia from February 1, 2018.

Grant Samuel has come in for a second barracking in the space of a month with HealthCare Partners.

A Hamilton mother's six month battle with insufferable pain after a botched epidural has likened the feeling to that of someone drilling a pencil into her spine.

One of Westport's two resident midwives is leaving, saying her job is financially unsustainable.

Buller's Integrated Family Health Centre (IFHC) is set to be completed in the first half of 2019 - more than four years later than originally planned.

EXCLUSIVE: A group of orthopaedic surgeons has accused Waikato District Health Board managers of stopping them from making follow-up checks on patients.

Advocates of a children's intensive care unit argued kids have particular needs

Abano Healthcare's board has reiterated its advice that shareholders should wait for a formal recommendation before accepting a partial takeover offer.

Efforts to tackle a major eye problem that can lead to blindness could be boosted by a world-first Kiwi study into newly discovered and potentially game-changing adult stem cells.

Kiwi dance queen Parris Goebel dropped into the Kidz First Hospital in south Auckland to launch a Christmas campaign to help sick children.

Abano Healthcare told shareholders it expects to lift first-half profit by up to 50 percent in 2017 with earnings driven by dental acquisitions.

A simple device designed by an inventive Dunedin mind has the medical fraternity buzzing.

A severely autistic teen who has been held in prison for the past five days has been offered temporary accommodation.

Doctors are back at work after a 48-hour strike that postponed thousands of surgeries around the country.

Up to 30 West Coast patients won't get scheduled surgery or outpatient consultations next week as a result of the junior doctors' strike.

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

The $37.8 million programme involves listed healthcare system software developer Orion Health, the University of Auckland, and DHBs.

More than 3000 resident doctors around the country will walk off the job for 48 hours, starting October 18.

In a New Zealand first, the DHB has set up the Blood Management Service which sees a patient's blood analysed and potentially boosted if needed.

It’s been almost a week since the residents of Havelock North in Hawke’s Bay started to feel unwell. The local council has confirmed the supply of drinking water is contaminated, most likely with campylobacter. With schools closed and hundreds of people sick, the Hastings District Council is being forced into damage control with residents angry they weren’t informed sooner and local businesses reeling for the impact its having on their bottom line.

Alarming new report reveals than half the senior doctors and dentists working in New Zealand public hospitals are tired and exhausted on the job.

Too often in matters of health and safety today, perfection becomes the enemy of improvement.

Finding a potential new treatment for Alzheimer's disease will be the aim of a new $850,000 collaboration between Kiwi and UK scientists.