The Ministry of Health needs to sit down and talk with families who are caring for their disabled relatives, say the Greens.

An expert says many more babies would survive if the country quit smoking and reduced its obesity.

Food manufacturer Sanitarium has produced a scheme for a national "traffic light" food labelling system.

Doctors flying to New South Wales to work weekends are earning as much as $8200.

A man weighing more than 200 kilograms has died in hospital, after staff could not give him life saving treatment because he was too heavy for them to roll.

Despite being born in Auckland, Peta is not entitled to free healthcare as her parents aren't citizens.

Christchurch hospitals are busy but coping as patient numbers swell from the earthquake.

The threat of a potentially fatal superbug is growing, and infection control officials cannot see any let-up.

'This was my grandmother, a brilliant and much-loved woman. The story of the final 10 years of her life reveals a shocking truth about how Britain treats its old people.'

A hospital surgeon is fighting a drink-driving charge after driving home from a bar.