Health

A tour through Parliament is among several new locations of interest connected to a measles case in a traveller who visited New Zealand.

After decades of self-medicating with beer, Brendan Cullen is now an open-water swimmer and a "sounding board" for rural people who are struggling.

The University of Auckland has found the incidence rate of cervical cancer is up to nine times higher in the Pacific Islands than in Australasia.

Advances in research are showing that a deeper understanding of psychopathy may help to create more effective interventions.

Health New Zealand had been scrambling to pay about 5,500 staff in Waikato who didn't get their money on time.

The approved budget for the new Dunedin Hospital is just over $2b, though the government continues to use a figure millions less than that.

Hundreds of patients in the Greater Wellington region had been offered $150 petrol payments to travel out of the district for diagnostic procedure. Audio

More than 60,000 individual beers in total, are now being urgently recalled by Lion NZ after they were wrongly labelled alcohol free when they are not.

The increase of mental health distress among youths is a global trend, with the Covid-19 pandemic responsible for a lot of it, experts say. Audio

One of about 5500 Waikato Health New Zealand employees whose pay was missed told RNZ she has been dipping into her son's account while she has just $2 in hers.

Pharmac is warning drug supply remains unpredictable due to increased demand and manufacturing constraints. Audio

Black sesame is getting the matcha treatment online, but apart from tasting good does it have any significant health benefits?

Doctors are divided over treatment for a rare disorder, but some living with it say the official advice is misleading.