Legislation to hike the price of cigarettes to about $30 a pack by 2020 has passed with support from all parties except New Zealand First.

Bowel cancer survivor Peter Krijger is relieved that NZ will at last get a national screening programme to detect the disease at its earlier stages.

We often worry about the future for girls, but it's boys who are locked in a crisis that's been building for a decade.

A national bowel screening programme will be rolled out after today's Budget set aside $39.3 million over four years.

An extra $2.2 billion will be pumped into health over four years to help cope with an ageing population and record immigration.

British TV chef Jamie Oliver is taking his food campaign to the Olympics in a bid to ban McDonald's and Coca-cola from sponsoring the event unless they meet nutritional and ethical standards.

After tipping the scales at 169kg, the Aucklander decided to make some big changes.

Experts have warned this faddy food advice is not only unfounded - it may actually be dangerous.

An obese Melbourne woman has shed 40kg thanks to selfies.

Do you want to be in the best shape of your life, despite your age? Dani Wright talks to Les Mills' head of fitness about keeping fit after 50

Is what we know about healthy eating all wrong?

Orion Health is targeting a return to profit in 2018 after reporting a 26 per cent increase in annual revenue.

The hills of Dairy Flat are alive with the sounds of music whenever James Wong, 7, and music therapist May Clulee get together.

The potato researchers are clear: they're not saying eating potatoes causes high blood pressure.

The new finding that could save more lives than any drug.

Two Levin schools have closed today because of a confirmed case of measles.

OPINION: Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald explains the right way to give advice.

Scientists say packing more into the day increases the opportunity to learn new things, stimulating and challenging the brain.

What's really going on in our minds and bodies when we fall "head over heels"?

If a child naps at the same time every day for at least an hour, is it okay to dash up the road for a few minutes?

A video of a Melbourne chiropractor cracking a baby's back went viral, now the same practitioner is facing a temporary ban on treating anyone under 18.

She's had no luck finding her ideal man, so this former reality TV contestant has put a ring on it herself.

According to a recent study, pounding the pavements could help to ward off more than a dozen different types of cancer.

Stuck on the couch after hurting her knee, one woman was surprised she could lose so much weight simply by adjusting her diet.

A mother of three battling aggressive lung cancer married her soulmate - and died two hours later.

When is suffering so unbearable that euthanasia can be considered as the only option?

Many people talk about living their dreams a lot but ultimately very few actually do it.