Health

Bad news - there's poop in the water all the time. Audio

The error was only realised after the man was given two repeat prescriptions and complained of dizziness and imbalance.

Complaints also said the masseuse commented on a client's weight and tried to have explicit sexual conversations.

Biosecurity NZ has placed strict movement controls on a commercial rural Otago egg farm, as the first case of avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, is confirmed in Aotearoa.

A man whose leg swelled so large he could not lift it now has his mobility back, after a new Auckland clinic was the first to offer a surgery in NZ.

Cancer drugs, ADHD medication and a tablet for chronic heart failure are among them.

A joint review into how the first month of changes has gone will begin next week.

While the water is safe to drink, there is something "odd" about the fact that treatment plants are not able to remove the arsenic, scientist says.

Patients feel gaslit by their doctors, and there is little - if any - research being funded, critics say. Audio

Filling up on tasty stuff with the very low nutritional value doesn't serve our brains, researcher Julia Rucklidge tells Saturday Morning. Video, Audio

Heroin has been found in a white powder being sold as cocaine in the Auckland region.

Doctors warned that scaling down plans for the new hospital risked leaving it in a "clinically precarious state" - just two days before the government announced its cutbacks.

Analysis - RNZ's Phil Pennington digs into how a single costly project is a test case for what can go wrong in infrastructure project planning.

Before abortion was decriminalised in the late 1970s, about 20 women a year died from terminations gone wrong. Audio