The New Zealand supplier of the chicken pox vaccine has run out of stock.

The Health Minister is telling district health boards to focus on improving waiting times for diagnostic tests.

There is sympathy from a health economist for PHARMAC, following its plans to refuse funding for a highly expensive drug to treat a rare blood disorder.

Babies who share a bed with their parents are five times more likely to die of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome.

The second day of a High Court hearing on a smoking ban for psychiatric patients in locked facilities is underway in Auckland.

A district health board is confident it's learnt from its mistakes, and is making sure they won't happen again.

A big turnout's expected at a community meeting in Timaru tonight, looking at the dangers of legal highs.

Staff at the Taranaki Base Hospital are starting to move in to the new wards being built as part of the the hospital's redevelopment project.

A district health board has been told it failed in its duty to provide appropriate care to a woman who later died.

At the High Court at Auckland, a lawyer is arguing there should be an exception so psychiatric patients can smoke in wards.

The Government is being accused of not keeping its promise on doctor visits for young children.