Taking in the beautiful scenery in the Bay of Plenty will get you fit and could win you and your mates $100 in sports vouchers. Sport Bay of Plenty, Sport NZ and... Read More

Nicola Wearne is a Tauranga nurse stricken with rheumatoid arthritis - but she's defying her crippling pain and fatigue to tackle one of the world's most challenging... Read More

It is scarce, it is precious and one day it could save your life - blood. Blood donations are often in high demand and critical to a number of treatments and procedures... Read More

With a constant decline in influenza-like-illness Waikato public health director Dr Anita Bell has declared the winter influenza season over. While still circulating... Read More

A simple, ongoing approach to eating and exercise is the key to weight-loss and managing diabetes, says Dr Trish Zingel from Bethlehem Doctors. That's why she's... Read More

Five-year-old Georgie Farrell often turns heads when she's out with Mum and Dad. Not because of her limitless energy or cheeky manner, but because she's usually... Read More

‘Disturbing' is how the Health Quality & Safety Commission describes the findings of an investigation undertaken by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.... Read More

James Reid has an infectious smile. It's an ear-to-ear grin, exposing a mouthful of pearly whites, and his cheeks turn bright pink. But it's a smile that mum Sonja... Read More

In a New Zealand first, Waikato Hospital has moved out of the dark ages and into the digital with an electromagnetic tracking device. The unassuming cube of metal... Read More

The National Screening Unit is asking all mothers, wives, grandmothers, daughters and sisters to think about the ones they love and have a smear test. September... Read More

The digital future for rural health has arrived on the Coromandel with Thames Hospital carrying out its first ‘virtual ward round' recently. Several rehabilitation... Read More

Roundup's long reign as the undisputed king of weed killers could be coming to an end in Tauranga as the city council considers trialing replacements. The decision... Read More