Manuka honey, the premium product found on fashionable breakfast tables, could play a role in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists reported yesterday.

Doctors flying to New South Wales to work weekends are earning as much as $8200.

An Auckland doctor solves medical mysteries that have her colleagues stumped. Andrew Laxon asks her how she does it

Smokers are in denial that their habit causes lung cancer and they should be offered tests that show their personal risk, a researcher says.

An Australian army field hospital is set to be turned into a community health centre as authorities work to prevent a medical crisis in Christchurch.

A medical recruitment company claims to have seen a 300 per cent rise in New Zealand doctors leaving to find better pay in Australia in the last year.

A diabetes drug alleged to be a factor in 100,000 cases of heart failure is being withdrawn from the NZ market.

A spiralling shortage of doctors has sparked a warning of future "severe safety issues" in New Zealand hospitals, with predictions that patients could suffer from increasing medical mistakes and treatment delays without urgent action.

Ethics experts have approved NZ's first clinical trial using adult stem cells to treat people with spinal injuries.

A large study of several popular painkillers has confirmed that using them long-term carries significant risks of heart disease and stroke.

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year.