An Opotiki doctor is traveling to America to research how technology is changing rural healthcare in New Zealand. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Hawke's Bay Hospital is at capacity. People are being urged to seek medical care from their family doctor, medical centre, pharmacy

Rural New Zealand is facing a GP shortage as the current workforce ages.

A person diagnosed with measles in Auckland visited several public places while infectious.

Doctors have been told to "practice what they preach" in a study that has found medical professionals regularly risk infecting their patients and colleagues.

The Government will ban all synthetic drugs within two weeks until they can be proven to be low-risk, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has revealed.

The family of a keen gardener who died after using potting mix hopes her death raises the dangers of using the potentially lethal soil.

Women who have ever used the contraceptive pill are less likely to die from any cause, a huge study confirms.

A doctor who severed an artery in a boy's penis during circumcision may face disciplinary action.

More New Zealanders are diagnosing their illnesses online instead of going to their GP, according to a new survey.

The number of people checking in with their GP in relation to flu symptoms may be levelling off, but we're not out of the woods yet.