Kiwi inventor Sir Ray Avery is getting help from dozens of artists around the world to raise money for lifesaving baby incubators.

The death of a woman who was part of a Middlemore Hospital study will be analysed afresh by a coroner, 11 years after her death.

For Maori and other ethnicities, the rates have declined, producing a widening gap in health-care inequalities which is of concern, say researchers.

Tech company Orion Health says its latest $61m loss is in line with its strategy to grow revenue before profits.

Nurses, midwives and health care assistants at 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) have rejected a proposed collective agreement.

Editorial: Force-feeding has never been a feature of the humble dairy, yet suddenly it finds itself in the business of public health.

Transsexual former MP Georgina Beyer does not believe taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery should be available "off the rack".

The Children's Commissioner wants a rethink of universal services so more public spending can go to the neediest families.

Patients in New Zealand have become the first in the world to receive an experimental treatment for type 2 diabetes.

A district health board has been putting patients on a "suspended" waiting list for surgery until it can fit them in within the Government's new target of four months, a senior manager's memo indicates.

A major shift to more voucher-type funding of social services, including health and education, is proposed in a new official report.

The Ministry of Health has released the names of the 11 clinics which had not opted into the "zero fees" scheme for under 6s.

In a new attempt to control New Zealand's obesity epidemic, severely overweight patients will have a stomach drain installed through which they pump out excess food.

Police have confirmed an investigation is underway into the death of teenager Matthew Gunter at Grey Base hospital.

The general manager of the hospital where the anaesthetist practises said he was not aware of her connection to the Greymouth case.

The Government will not be paying for all primary aged children to attend the doctor for free, documents have revealed.

A traumatised family have hit out at the health system over the "totally avoidable" death of their 15-year-old son.

District health boards that do heart surgery cannot produce reliable comparisons of individual surgeons' patient complication and death rates.

Despite overwhelming evidence in favour of immunisation, the Government will not revisit a proposal to make it a condition of the benefit, Prime Minister John Key says.

A 'devastated' doctor who was involved in a laboratory mix-up that led to one woman needlessly losing a breast has pleaded for forgiveness.

An Auckland hospital for the elderly failed to make a written plan on how staff would prevent a high-risk resident from developing pressure sores.

When Dan Collins' late father was hit by a rare medical condition a few years ago, Collins was surprised by what he saw of the health system.

Australian parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids won't get taxpayer-funded childcare or welfare benefits under the federal Government's "no jab, no pay" policy.

Murray Jackson says he would rather die than suffer again the 19 violent jolts he received from a small defibrillator that had been implanted within his chest.

A lawyer acting for a psychiatric patient will fight to overturn a smoking ban at mental health units in the Court of Appeal this month.

If we could see the way we look when we are drunk we might never get drunk again.

Pressure to broaden the use of identification numbers attached to preschoolers has concerned the Privacy Commissioner.

People eligible for state-paid influenza vaccinations are being urged to book their pre-winter jab immediately.