Hitting the gym and sticking to salads, but still not dropping the weight? These common mistakes could be hampering your efforts.

A lack of fibre in our diets may be causing the deadly rise in allergies, say researchers.

You can blame winter, changeable sleep times, and even your genes.

Historians say sleeping during the day has been common through the ages. With insomnia on the rise, should we be napping like our ancestors?

As well as capturing your best side on camera, regularly holding your phone up to your face may be damaging your skin.

Thousands of people gathered to celebrate the summer solstice by doing yoga amongst the traffic and chaos of New York's Times Square. Source: AP

Passenger with psoriasis questioned about her skin condition before being allowed on flight.

Incorrect breathing can cause a range of unpleasant symptoms - and it's becoming increasingly common.

To avoid wasting time on a bad relationship, experts say to look out for these signals.

Health experts have warned New Zealanders battling cancer against relying on expensive, unproven treatments at offshore clinics.

A young woman claims she nearly died after using dodgy fake tan.

A picture of a woman's face, swollen from an allergic reaction, has caught the internet's attention.

Natural remedies are a great way to keep you in the game.

COMMENT: It's men's health month, time to turn our attention to the not-so-great health statistics of our menfolk.

A central Queensland teenager has been moved to tears after almost 50,000 people came out in support of her online petition against relentless bullying.

Look away, junk food fans.

From a size 22 to a 10 in less than a year.

The first nine years of Jurnee's life have been tough but all that could change.

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Parents of a 9-year-old boy have been threatened with prosecution unless they send him to a special boarding school 300km from their home.

A Canadian woman says her newly defined derriere is the result of following the workouts of an Instagram fitness star.

Got that after-dinner food baby? Here's how to keep it at bay.

Experts have revealed four tell-tale signs that could indicate a person is telling porkies.

Photos have revealed the squalid conditions in which an autistic man is being kept "like a caged animal" at a disability care unit in the Waikato.

The last time 11-year-old Auckland schoolboy Harris Barfoot saw his friend James Slyfield they were both in Starship hospital battling leukaemia.

Richard Edwards and Janet Hoek suggest the next targets in the campaign against smoking should be dairies and other outlets selling tobacco products.

Health and fitness website Greatist.com tested hundreds of health and fitness apps to come up with its list of the best of 2016.

It might be a bit scary to make a little change and test the edges of the comfort zone, but really if you genuinely don't like having the problem then that really is the choice you need to make.

The finger-prick test, which could be available at GP surgeries or even chemists, looks for molecules in the blood that indicate diabetes is developing.

You could be forgiven for thinking it's a compost bath - but wallowing in steaming sawdust and fermented plant enzymes is the latest therapy to hit NZ.