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Te Roroa and Ngati Whatua as well as the Maori legal fraternity are mourning former Maori Law Society president Jolene Patuawa-Tuilave, who died of cancer on Thursday morning in Tauranga.

Research in Britain has found no link between a pregnant woman's exposure to mobile phone towers and a child's risk of developing childhood cancers. The study is the largest of its kind.

The former England rugby international Andy Ripley has died from prostate cancer at the age of 62. Back row forward Ripley won 24 caps for England in the 1970s and was ...

French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans organisation is dismayed at the final shape of the French compensation law, saying it fears that it is too restrictive. The head of Moruroa e...

French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans organisation is dismayed at the final shape of the French compensation law, saying it fears that it is too restrictive. The head of Moruroa e...

The Health Research Council has given Otago University $1.2 million to find out why Maori have a lower cancer survival rate than non-Maori.

France has published the official decree to compensate the victims of its nuclear weapons tests carried out between 1960 and 1996. The decree had been issued in January after the...

The Health Research Council has announced funding of more than $81 million for health research, to be carried out over the next three to five years.

A new technique for treating breast cancer could in the future eliminate the need for weeks of radiotherapy.

A health advocate who blew the whistle on what became known as the unfortunate experiment at National Women's hospital says the findings of new research should stop any bid to rehabilitate Dr Herbert… Audio

A study into what became known as the "unfortunate experiment" at National Women's Hospital has found that women whose treatment was delayed suffered profound harm. Audio

Scientists in the United States say they have had complete success from trials on mice of a new vaccine aimed at preventing breast cancer.

The Health Department in PNG says it accepts people may be dying because of a lack of diagnostic equipment. The head of Pathology at the Angau Memorial Hospital in the...

A pathologist in PNG says conditions such as cancer, cholera, and HIV are going undiagnosed because a lack of equipment is hampering their ability to process tests. Dr Francis Bannick...

A pathologist in Papua New Guinea says patients are dying because a lack of equipment means it's impossible to provide adequate testing services for three quarters of the country's population.

Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for the 1969 film Easy Rider, has died at 74 from complications arising from prostate cancer.