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Radiographers and laboratory workers have hit back at DHB claims that their strike action is unreasonable and harming patients. Audio

The Government has announced a cash boost of nearly $4 million to help regional cancer centres reduce waiting times for radiotherapy treatment.

Magic Johnson has sold his stake in the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers basketball side to a doctor who made his fortune on cancer treatments and generic drugs and has been...

Mary MacKillop is now Australia's first Catholic saint. She was canonised at a ceremony at St Peter's in Rome on Sunday. Audio

The maverick mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has died of cancer in the United States at the age of 85.

Police in the United States are searching for an Australian girl, who has been missing for weeks in North Carolina.

Police in the United States have begun a homicide investigation after the disappearance of a 10-year-old disabled Australian girl who had been living in North Carolina.

Workers in Hungary are racing to build an emergency dam as cracks in a reservoir widened, threatening to unleash a second spill of toxic sludge on the village of Kolontar and nearby rivers.

Radiologists in Guam have welcomed a new bill in the Senate which would require the government to fund annual mammograms for women who can't afford them. The Guam News Watch...

Friday's headlines: NZ diplomat in India apologises for ethnic slurs by TVNZ presenter; DoC director general Al Morrison says radical economic rethink is needed; fire foretold in dream.

Rural women have given new meaning to the term "getting plastered". They are making plaster casts of their busts to be displayed as sculptures in a national campaign to raise awareness of breast…

A state of emergency has been declared in western Hungary following the escape of large amounts of toxic sludge from an alumina plant.

Cook Islands MP and lawyer, Norman George, has taken legal action against the Cook Islands News newspaper and its cartoonist, claiming he was libelled in a cartoon. According to Mr...

Young Maori and Pacific Island women are leading the way in the uptake of the HPV vaccination which guards against a virus which causes cervical cancer and genital warts.

Wednesday's headlines: killer's 175 previous convictions listed; NZ not prepared to deal with looming wave of dementia cases; Tonga raises $700,000 for earthquake relief in Canterbury.

Young Pacific and Maori women are leading take-up rates for the vaccine that targets the strain of human papillomavirus responsible for most cervical cancers and genital warts.

American actress Gloria Stuart, who played a shipwreck survivor in the film Titanic, has died at the age of 100.

A funeral for Vietnam war hero Morrie Stanley has been held in Auckland on Wednesday.

Tenor Placido Domingo is to remain the director of Los Angeles Opera for at least another three years.

Fifteen child cancer patients from the lower North Island are expected to have to travel to Christchurch each year under a new plan for child cancer services in Wellington.