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.

Kiwi claimants are pressing on with their bid to have a hip maker punished.

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.

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.

Nurse who was sacked from Auckland's North Shore Hospital has been found guilty over missing morphine-like pain pills.

Fast-acting parents are thought to have curbed the spread of whooping cough from a Christchurch primary school.

Applications for a share of a new $7.9 million research fund to improve the treatment of conditions like diabetes and asthma have opened.

Parents of a 9-year-old boy have been threatened with prosecution unless they send him to a special boarding school 300km from their home.

Photos have revealed the squalid conditions in which an autistic man is being kept "like a caged animal" at a disability care unit in the Waikato.

No New Zealander is too disabled to belong in a family, to have a home and to be treated with dignity, yet this is exactly what is happening to Ashley Peacock.

The Human Rights Commission will bring an international expert to New Zealand to investigate the country's use of seclusion after repeatedly raising concerns.

The lack of clarity around patient seclusion has emerged after the Herald revealed the case of autistic man Ashley Peacock, who has been keep in isolation for years.

Statistics show the Canterbury District Health Board deals with 17 new adult walk-ins every day - adults who have never needed the help of mental health services before.

Lizzie Marvelly is right; every woman should be able to make her own choices.

The Government today top-up after subcontractor prices came back higher than expected.

An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration.

Hundreds of patients are waiting for elective surgery and at some hospitals higher levels of pain are being demanded just to get on the list.