There is nothing pleasant about a gastro-type illness, just ask the 5000-or-so people who became ill from Havelock North's contaminated water in August.

Actress Carey Mulligan has urged people to keep close ties with relatives with dementia.

Evolution could be to blame for chronic hip pain, scientists have revealed.

Jasmin Floyd just thought she had a stiff neck. Little did she know she was growing a second skeleton that would eventually trap her in her own body.

People who have been the same approximate size for their whole lives simply do not understand what it means for your body to undergo such a radical shift.

First one, then another. Bite! Slap! Bite! Before you know it, mosquitoes are descending from the skies to disrupt your backyard summer

Born in a time where booze, sex and a hangover pie were a given, is this generation rebelling by giving it all up?

It took an injury and a push from his fiance to propel him into a career in fitness and now he has helped his partner lose 16kg in the lead up to their wedding.

A Nigeria teenage girl who spent her life being carried around in a plastic bowl because her body stopped growing has died.

COMMENT: It has long been thought sea frolicking has many health benefits.

A man going through treatment for colon cancer won a restaurant's raffle for a year's worth of free pizza and then donated his prize to a food bank.

George Michael is dead at 53 and we're not sure why, but we certainly speculate.

A Christchurch mother who shed 20kg in nine months simply by slashing sugar from her diet is today launching a recipe book to help others.

COMMENT: Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald identifies the most important thing you can do for some battling depression.

• Philip Clarke is a Professor of Health Economics, University of Melbourne. Chris Schilling is an associate lecturer, Health

WATCH: A schoolgirl has become an internet sensation with her rendition of Hallelujah which has been watched 3 million times.

Prepare to get stumped all over again with a look back at the trickiest optical illusions from this year.

The mother of a disabled child claims she found an angry note posted on a car that shamed her for parking in a handicapped space.

Liane Kupferberg Carter and her husband Marc can hear clearly again.

Studies show older generation are more likely to drink too much and smoke marijuana.

Scientists have found a protein that can stop the immune system triggering early labour, which is believed to happen in response to infection.

A nutritionist reveals the foods so lacking in positive nutritional attributes that they are best avoided entirely.

Parcels and envelopes for Bradley flooded in after a social media campaign was launched to make the football-loving youngster's Christmas a special one.

All he wanted to do was sleep and dream about his next KFC meal. Until he decided to make a change.

Health chiefs said 'self-isolation' would stop the spread of illness and keep the pressure off casualty units.

The most 'trendy' psychotherapy around, here are five tips to get you started.

Why did Pepsi pick millennials? Upside.

Here are some pre-Christmas detox tips to make sure you don't pile on the kilos over the silly season.

Kiwi parents desperate to gain respite from sleepless crying little are increasingly turning to baby whisperers for a magical solution.

A once obese mum has turned her life around by losing 67kg, leaving her ex who bullied her over of her weight, and finding new love.