The family of Elaine Iketau are appealing for help from the public.

A Kiwi trial is exploring how Viagra may help underweight babies before and after birth.

With just seven cases per million people, Isabel was extremely unlucky to contract SJS.

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

UK doctor leaves BMA after vote favours decriminalising abortion, others set to follow.

New studies have left scientists divided over the use of paracetamol during pregnancy.

Surgery restores young girl's ability to walk two years after life-threatening infection.

Researchers call for urgent action over an antipsychotic drug linked to 13 NZ deaths.

COMMENT: Maori do not need a third medical school, or one dedicated to general practice.

Can death be reversed? A US company's plans to start trials 'reawakening the dead'.

Has cancer finally met its match? Jamie Morton goes inside the immunotherapy revolution.

The bizarre accounts of children made unwell for their parents' financial gains.

A standard NZ psychiatry practice may violate human rights conventions, say researchers.

GP denies five counts of stupefying and eight of indecent assault after four men complain.

It may also play a role in fertilized eggs that fail to properly implant in the womb.

A young doctor's struggle to break devastating news to his patient and her fiance.

A young mother is desperate to warn others about cheap cosmetic holidays overseas.

As obesity concerns grow, a plethora of bizarre treatments are making their way to market.

Thousands of lives may have been saved by a six-hour wait time target for hospital EDs.

Two years in jail for man guilty of selling steroids online.

He's 8 years old, has been to A&E 27 times, and has never felt a thing.

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

Pharmac could soon fund new treatments for insomnia, HIV, Hep C and others.

Scientists claim to have identified the offending enzyme and a way to block it.

NZ's consumer watchdog found many products weren't backed with scientific evidence.

A baby who was not expected to live after open-heart surgeries has started school.

Most kits lacked basic items and were pricier than making your own, the watchdog found.

Super bug threat needs strong response, microbiologists say.

It's not Pharmac's responsibility to pay for women's sanitary products.

Conjoined twins Lupita and Carmen refuse to be separated despite serious health risks.