Medicine

Two four-year-old children suffering from SMA, a rare degenerative disorder, are living vastly different lives, because while one can access life-changing drugs in Australia, the other - living in New… Video, Audio

The First World War caused the largest global mobilisation of people the world had ever seen and for New Zealanders the distance traveled was especially significant. But it wasn't just soldiers that… Audio, Gallery

Former refugee Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran in 1978 and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. Her debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2007) was a New York Times Editor's Choice… Audio

A United States woman who gave birth to her granddaughter says advances in senior health and modern medicine allowed her to carry the child despite having already gone through menopause. Jillian… Video, Audio

Ministry of Health has reclassified several commonly used cough medicines, so they have to be obtained from a pharmacist or with a prescription - not just off the shelf. GPs say that could make… Audio

Nearly 10 per cent of babies born in New Zealand will be premature, and while attention goes to their immediate medical needs - could they be missing out when it comes to crucial brain development… Audio

GP and award-winning writer, Gavin Francis explores the incredible transformation humans undergo through the course of a lifetime. His latest book Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change considers… Audio

Despite addiction often being tied up with other mental health problems, treatment tends to be separate and siloed - and aimed primarily at men - author, journalist and former addict Jenny Valentish… Audio

A report into the new hospital rosters that were supposed to make things safer for both doctors and patients, says the new system is inflexible, has a negative effect on training, and reduces… Audio

Earlier we reported on a new junior doctors' union that says revised hospital rosters that thousands of doctors striked for have wrecked their training and may be unsafe for patients. Specialty… Audio

Māori students studying medicine at the University of Otago say they are fed up with the ignorance they face over the way they are selected into their second year of study. There are limited spaces in… Audio

Visiting Australian oncologist John Zalcberg says New Zealand cancer patients are missing out on access to new medicines, available in other countries, because Pharmac won't fund them. Video, Audio

Cancer Society's Medical Director Chris Jackson has called the way some of his patients can afford better cancer drugs than others "survival of the richest", while oncologists throughout NZ call on… Video, Audio

Health workers in Papua New Guinea are calling for dramatic change as hospital shelves run bare. Audio

Australia's shadow assistant treasurer Dr Andrew Leigh is a proponent of evidence-based policy through the use of random trials. His book, Randomistas, reveals why data should be the basis for… Audio

If you want to live a long healthy life, exercise, socialise and eat a Mediterranean-style diet, says medical academic and author of Ageing for Beginners Doug Wilson. Audio

Dame Carol Robinson is a chemist who has pioneered the application of mass spectrometry techniques to problems in chemical biology. Her groundbreaking research on the three-dimensional structure of… Audio

Antibiotic resistance could leave humanity returning to an age when simple infections were fatal and surgery was life threatening, the World Health Organisation says. Australian researchers say… Audio

Do you fancy living longer, having better sex, increasing your memory, and building muscle tone while burning fat?! With reputed benefits like these it's no wonder that the search is on for a… Audio

A flexible tool to measure electrical signals in our gut could detect serious medical conditions. Audio