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Malcolm McLaren, a British impresario best known for managing the punk band, the Sex Pistols, has died. He was 64.

Actor Christopher Cazenove, best known for his role in the television series Dynasty, has died from septicaemia. He was 66.

Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She will start six weeks of radiation therapy in May.

Martina Navratilova, one of the finest female tennis players of all time, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 53 year old Czech-born American has told People magazine ...

US actor John Forsythe, the former Dynasty star and voice of Charlie in the Charlie's Angels TV series and films, has died at the age of 92.

Artist Don Peebles, regarded as a founding father of the post-war abstract movement in New Zealand art, has died at the age of 88.

The French nuclear test veterans organisation, AVEN, has written an open letter to the French defence minister to denounce the government's stance on compensating test victims. AVEN says the law,...

Raiha, Lady Mahuta, a Waikato-Tainui negotiator for the Waikato River claim, has died after a long battle with illness. She was 67. Audio

Margaret Moth, the award-winning New Zealand camera operator shot in Sarajevo in 1992, has died of cancer in the United States. She was 59.

China's food safety watchdog has ordered inspections of cooking oil nationwide following reports that up to a tenth of Chinese supplies are illegally made and contained cancer-causing agents.

Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the first musher to notch four consecutive wins in the world's most famous dog-racing event. Mackey reached the finish line ...

A New Zealand doctor agrees with a landmark legal challenge in the United States against a patent on two breast cancer genes. Audio

Men should have faith in a blood test for prostate cancer, despite its inventor describing it as little better than a coin toss in terms of diagnosis, urologists say.

Australian doctors are being urged to stop using high radiation CT scans without clinical justification after a review found the scans were being overused.

The Ministry of Health has released for the first time league table details showing which groups of doctors' practices in New Zealand are doing the best and worst at meeting community health needs. Audio

A Pacific Island Health strategy launched on Friday is to be promoted by churches.

The principal of Westland High School says its board changed its mind about allowing anti-cervical cancer immunisation to be given on school premises, saying it doesn't want to be seen to endorse the…