Pro-health advocacy group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is telling the Health select committee that a registration scheme is needed for tobacco sellers.

Wellington, Jan 23 NZPA - Emergency medicine specialists from public hospitals say funding is needed for better care of patients who are sick and injured but who may not be in a life-threatening situation.

The NZ Faculty of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), which represents emergency medicine specialists from public hospital emergency departments, says that the implication that hospital emergency departments are being stretched by patients who should be seen by their primary c

Wellington, Jan 22 NZPA - Passengers on a flight which landed in Auckland from Brisbane on January 11 may have been exposed to measles, the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) warns.

Wellington, Jan 21 NZPA - The Ministry of Health is warning New Zealanders about an outbreak of Legionnaires disease on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali.

The Community and Public Health division of Canterbury District Health Board has issued a health warning after high levels of faecal bacteria were found in consecutive samples taken from Okains Bay estuary.

The uncertainty of how long aftershocks will continue to rattle the Canterbury region is driving the anxiety of its residents, a trauma specialist says.

Please find below a link to a media release issued by the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, following a number of cases of legionellosis contracted after travel to Bali.

The School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, supported by Parkinson's New Zealand, is conducting a study in New Zealand which aims to understand how pets can help people with Parkinson's Disease. One of the participants taking part in this study is William.

Hugh Green, New Zealand businessman and philanthropist, today donated $500,000 to Medicine Mondiale, Sir Ray Avery's charity for the development of an affordable high tech, robust, quality neonatal incubator that will make the difference to lives of babies throughout the world and in particular t