Factitious disorder label damaging for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome patients who need treatment.

Gift of $9 million to finance Starship children's hospital training on medical manikins

Law reform may make doctors refer patients specifically to another doctor for abortions.

For Auckland District Health Board cleaner Lena Hiku it is life-changing.

The weekend marked 100 years since the country's worst public health disaster.

Nine month delay for crucial heart scan. "It only takes that long to have a baby."

Toddlers immunised during the last epidemic now need a new dose as adolescents.

Six Kiwis have died from a new strand of meningococcal disease this year.

Last year the cost to Waitemata DHB was almost $100 a voucher.

Over a cuppa, the Duke and Duchess push one of the last taboos into the global spotlight.

Expert says earlier antibiotics would have boosted Zachary Gravatt's chances.

Woman who shed 50kg warns of obesity-cancer links.

Weary, stressed medics emptied of compassion for patients says an expert.

Healthcare workers, from doctors to nurses are burning out due to tough working conditions and environments.

Greens mental health spokeswoman tells AUT audience her teen anxiety was 'quite normal'.

Solo mum-of-three either pays $61 to get her child after hours care, or waits four hours.

Maddie Blitvitch survived her second major surgery. That wasn't the end of her troubles.

Kiwi Karl Brunton has begun last-ditch, radical treatment for cancer in the United States.

NZ scientist Robert Webster may have saved the world from a killer flu.

COMMENT: We should pay doctors to work entirely in the public health system.

NZ's record high suicide numbers prove need for action, says health minister David Clark.

Blood transfusions given to older heart surgery patients could do more harm than good.

Kiwi Olympian Alexis Pritchard explains how she helps husband Cameron Todd.

The ADHB has acknowledged for the first time the experiment resulted in early death.

New Zealand's pollen season was around 34 weeks long.

MS sufferer fears his livelihood will stop when he can't access MS drug anymore.

Expert claims Pharmac is basing its funding for MS drugs on its budget, not evidence.

Recommendations made over the poor care of a mental health patient sought by inquiry team.

Mental health inquiry hears public rage and frustration, but confident change will come.

Samoan health authorities have stopped all children's vaccinations in the island nation after the deaths of two toddlers.