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Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 60

An ebola outbreak has killed almost 60 people in Guinea, and may have spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Dr Net gives answers to ailing Kiwis

More New Zealanders are using the internet to research their medical woes - and some are using their findings to treat themselves rather than visit a doctor.

Polio-like disease hits US children

At least 20 people in California, most of them children, have been infected by a rare polio-like disease, which doctors have yet to identify conclusively.

40 Aucklanders sick with measles

School fights to curb measles cases

Public health authorities are working to prevent a measles outbreak after 19 students from an Auckland high school contracted the disease.

Parkinson's human trial suspended

An Auckland biotech company has suspended a human trial of an experiment Parkinson's disease treatment following the retraction of previous animal research.

Brave boy's basketball wish

When Louis Corbett's parents were told their young son was losing his sight they asked him what he'd like to do before his vision was completely gone.

Killer horse virus source likely to remain mystery

The Ministry for Primary Industries says it may never know the origin of a neurological strain of equine herpes which has so far killed seven thoroughbred horses.

Life with HIV in Tokyo

'Outrage' at vaccine delays

The parents of a young man who died of meningococcal C are "outraged with grief" at the many deaths that could have been prevented by mass vaccination.

Cancer stories aim to heal

Kane Fannin took his two young children to the beach yesterday, a seemingly ordinary excursion in the school holidays.

Facing up to life with Huntington's disease

Kimberley Jane Dark has made it clear that she doesn't want to be kept alive with a feeding tube.

$8m target to devlop brain research strategy

When patients have a certain kind of brain surgery to treat epilepsy at Auckland City Hospital is sent over the road to the Auckland University for research.

First botulism cases in Rotorua in 1980s

Anxious eye on virus as pilgrims start moving

As millions of Muslim pilgrims prepare to converge on holy sites in Saudi Arabia this [northern] autumn, the global health community is anxiously monitoring an outbreak of a respiratory virus known as Mers.

Hospital gloves could already be contaminated