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Smoking related illness are costing more in medical expences than the value of tobacco sales in Papua New Guinea. The World Health Organisation's PNG country representative Dr William Adu-Krow says...

A village in Fiji has become smokefree, along with a hospital and a community hall in Rotuma, to celebrate World No Tobacco Day, which was marked his week. Last year,...

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has again adjourned a hearing into a professional misconduct charge against a Hamilton doctor.

A New Zealand researcher says new World Health Organisation findings on possible links between cellphone use and cancer should spur the industry into conducting further studies. Audio

The Government is being told the disparity in salaries between New Zealand and Australia results in a steady loss of the most experienced senior doctors in this country.

Caring for people in their last year of life cost Counties Manukau District Health Board more than $51 million in 2008. Audio

Approval for the commercial use of a fungicide has been revoked by the Environmental Risk Management Authority.

American researchers say men who have been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer can help keep their disease at bay by taking brisk walks.

Listed biomedical firm Pacific Edge has struck a deal to license its world-first bladder cancer diagnostic test in Spain and Portugal.

One of Australia's best known actors, Bill Hunter, died on Saturday night.

Auckland Blues rugby player Kurtis Haiu has appeared in court facing three assault charges. The 26-year-old is receiving treatment for bone cancer.

The Blues rugby coach Pat Lam says lock Kurtis Haiu remains very much a part of their team. 26-year-old Haiu is receiving treatment for cancer, with the team doctor revealing...

The seriousness of Blues lock Kurtis Haiu's cancer diagnosis has been revealed, with the team doctor revealing Haiu has only a sixty five pecent chance of full recovery. Blues team...

An innovative drug treatment for the blood-borne disease hepatitis C has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

US actress Mary Tyler Moore is having brain surgery to remove a benign tumor.

A medical expert has told a professional misconduct hearing that better treatment of a patient by a Hamilton doctor would have spared her unnecessary suffering.

One of the Walker Brothers, a pop group that enjoyed chart success in the mid-1960s, has died at the age of 67.

Seve Ballesteros, one of golf's greatest and most charismatic players, has died after a a long battle with cancer. He was 54. The Spaniard, who won five major titles, died...