Forget the patches, gum, hypnosis, and aversion therapy, if you want to quit smoking you need to put your money where your mouth is.

You can't just walk away from your funding obligations, said Peter Atkinson this week. And the government will no longer be allowed to shortchange families of people with disabilities who require respite care, thanks to Mr Atkinson...

After a decade of torturing my body it's time for me to give it a rest. I was told the closer I got to 30 the more I'd start caring about my health, and as I approach 28, this is happening.In the past couple of months I've tried...

The world can stop searching, a New Zealand researcher says she has found the secret to boosting happiness - family and friends, and savouring the little things.Dr Erica Chadwick, a PhD researcher at Victoria University in Wellington,...

Adults urged to get vaccinations if in contact with babies as infections hit 1700. A leading child health expert is urging adults to be vaccinated against whooping cough if they are in contact with newborn babies.New Zealand is...

More than one in six cancers are caused by preventable or treatable infections, according to a new global study.Researchers found that of the 12.7 million new cancer cases around the world - 2 million were caused by virus, bacteria...

One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are...

South Canterbury District Health Board chairman Murray Cleverley has been photographed drinking from a beer bong.

There's been another privacy breach at ACC.The corporation's chief executive Ralph Stewart confirmed on One News that confidential information about more than 100 clients was mistakenly sent to the wrong people last Friday.Labour's...

New Zealand's most silent minority - deaf parents of hearing children - are seeking help to communicate with their children's teachers and other hearing people.They say schools get special needs funding for deaf children, but there...

A couple whose son died when his breathing apparatus stopped in an electricity cut are urging health authorities to distribute equipment with back-up power supplies to patients at home.Jenny and Rick Haaima's son Wayne, 28, died...

ACC is once again in damage control after details of yet another privacy breach are revealed.

Working through your lunchbreak could cause a deadly blood clot, a New Zealand expert warns after new research found the practice is rife among young office workers.A British survey of 1000 workers aged 21-30, commissioned by the...

Even having a bath is a problem for two-year-old Oscar Million, it makes him come out in hives.

A Green Bay Primary School student in remission from cancer has had her wish to work with sick animals granted.