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Regular price rises doing trick
Forcing up tobacco taxes every year is having an effect. It's hitting the price point for many smokers, galvanising their resolve to quit.
Forcing up tobacco taxes every year is having an effect. It's hitting the price point for many smokers, galvanising their resolve to quit.
Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart disease, diabetes and obesity are the norm.
A new killer strain of bird flu terrorising China could pose a risk to New Zealand, a flu expert said today.
Kiwi babies look likely to get free vaccinations against chickenpox and rotavirus later this year - up to six years after Australia.
New Zealand has been ranked one of the world's best countries to be born in this year. Researchers named New Zealand the seventh most lucky nation in which to start life.
We demand and expect our transport systems to to get us where we want, when we want to be there, and as fast as possible. We are, however, human beings.
Eating less fat in your food can lead to weight loss without actually dieting, a major review of studies has found.
Every winter, Taleni Lafo has to take her two young children to hospital because they become sick from the cold.
Depressed and anxious New Zealanders make up the two biggest groups on sickness benefits.
Incorrect figures were used in a report that found local cities' air quality was poorer than any major Australian city.
Cellphones and cordless landlines are possibly carcinogenic, say scientists.
Sarah Carter's father refuses to accept Thai authorities' belief that her death was not linked to an insect control chemical.
We should have the courage to question one-size-fits-all advice on parenting, writes Shelley Bridgeman.
The World Health Organisation is still stumped over the cause of the string of "puzzling" deaths in Chiang Mai.
Since his eldest child died while backpacking in Thailand, Richard Carter does not welcome idle time.