A heartbreaking picture of a 5-year-old girl is creating a very powerful reaction.

Thousands of contaminated eggs entered the UK from the Netherlands earlier this year.

Thousands more people will die from air pollution unless the world tackles climate change.

Indian girl, 10, who fell pregnant after being raped, ordered to carry foetus to term.

World Health Organisation warns of untreatable strains of sexually transmitted infections.

There are ways to save on your power without shivering through winter.

The world's next big antibiotic could lie hidden in our native fungi.

Depression is the focus of this year's World Health Day.

A Kiwi scientist's research could yield a vaccine against an emerging deadly pathogen.

COMMENT: The Government's plan to clean up waterways is an attempt to look as though action's being taken, when in reality nothing's happening, says Mark Dye.

Kiwis' use of antibiotics has soared, indicating widespread inappropriate use for viral coughs and colds, experts say.

As 2016 draws to a close, the NZ Science Media Centre picked some of the biggest national and international science stories that made headlines

Dentists spell out sugar control policies they say are needed

NZ has the fourth-highest rate of child deaths from assault in the OECD. Simon Collins visited three communities to look for the root causes.

The National Screening Unit will end cervical smear tests for women aged 20-25 in 2018 citing "a strong body of evidence" showing the procedure may be causing more harm than good.

In early 2014, a blogger launched a petition pushing sandwich chain Subway to remove an obscure chemical also used in yoga mats from its bread.

An independent panel of 19 specialists has called for sweeping reforms to ensure there is no repeat of the catastrophe, which killed more than 11,000 people.

A leading Pacific doctor is supporting calls for island countries to consider a fat tax on junk food to tackle the ticking time bomb of obesity in the region.

More than 80 New Zealanders have registered their interest in joining the international fight against Ebola, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says.

Scientists from one of the world's leading institutes of tropical medicine, which first discovered the Ebola virus in the 1970s, flew out to Guinea yesterday to begin ground-breaking research into a possible cure.

The chief of the WHO is blaming profit-driven companies for not finding an Ebola vaccine.

The World Health Organisation bungled efforts to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa, an internal report revealed Friday.

Isolation wards at hospitals around the country are on stand-by as the death rate from the outbreak rises and the number of those killed by the virus nears 4500.

Experts say the Ebola virus is not more virulent that previous outbreaks, and is actually quite difficult to catch.

The UN's new leader on Ebola says the fight against the epidemic is a "war" which could take another six months.

An experimental serum treatment on two US missionaries has raised hopes of an effective treatment for the disease after doctors reported a "miraculous" improvement in the health of one of those who contracted the disease.

In an era when the next pandemic can seem just a pathogen away, Ebola still retains a grisly fascination.