In 1893, the American Journal of the Medical Sciences reported on ten patients whose large and hitherto incurable cancers had ...

The Mental Health Foundation is welcoming a government bill expected to replace the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and ...

Help may be on the way for people living with genital herpes, with a leading clinical trial about to take place to investigate a potential new investigational medication. Herpes simplex causes cold ...

“KidsCan are experienced at effectively helping Kiwi children affected by poverty. They are the only large scale, national, not-for-profit, and non-governmental provider of food to ECE services. They ...

The launch of new community advocacy group VisAble signals an important development in community advocacy to achieve more focus on the needs and rights of disabled people in the family violence and ...

Opposition to Physician Associate (PAs) regulation is patch protection that threatens a genuine solution to health inequities in hard-to-staff and remote areas, the New Zealand Physician Associate ...

A bill that will repeal the current Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 has passed first reading in Parliament today, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says.

Scurvy is often considered a historical ailment, conjuring images of sailors on long sea voyages suffering from a lack of ...

Medical Aid Abroad was established in Christchurch in 1965 and is now based in Auckland. It is a not-for-profit charitable ...

Your body responds to a schistosomiasis infection by mounting an immune response involving several types of immune cells, as ...

Health New Zealand and ACC will now jointly provide nearly $357 million of funding to Hato Hone St John in the financial year ...

A range of approaches is needed to manage mental health presentations. In this article, specialist GP Sophie Jadwiga Ball ...