With summer fast approaching and young scooter riders keen to get out and enjoy the good weather, ACC is encouraging riders to add another layer of clothing.

With Guy Fawkes celebrations just around the corner, the New Zealand Fire Service has issued some tips for staying safe.

Researchers at Temple University in the US have been experimenting with 'barefoot' shoes.

From next month, New Zealanders will have a new, easy-to-use tool that tells them when they need to protect their skin from the sun, with specific reference to where in the country they live.

'Cyberchondriacs' who self-diagnose are doing themselves more harm than good, say doctors.

Thirty years of nursing is in Bridget McArthur’s blood – and in her artworks. The Whanganui UCOL’s Quay School of the Arts student’s latest installation, Let me care for you is a colourful mass of intravenous drip bags.

While our kids have the 5+ A Day message loud and clear, New Zealand adults are lagging behind. Research shows that while 78 per cent of Kiwis are familiar with 5+ A Day, only around 40 percent of adults meet the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables.

Women who eat a Mediterranean diet are more likely to get pregnant easily.

A study has found that weekly yoga and stretching classes can ease the pain for those suffering with chronic lower back pain.

New Zealand Police are urging drivers to drive safe and lower their speed tolerance to 4 km per hour this Labour weekend.

Watch out for those tasty rugby snacks says Jenny Craig consultant Natalie Russell. Rugby fans are potentially packing on the pounds by consuming 4,000 kilojoules per game.

With October being a celebratory month in India, experts are fearing that diabetes rates will soar.

Potatoes and other reportedly high-GI foods might not be the dietary villains that recent publicity, books and health-based programmes would claim them to be, a new University of Otago study suggests.

A study has revealed that in some people – namely optimists – all negative thoughts are completely ignored by the brain.

According to reports, breastfeeding can contribute to a baby's success in later life. Studies have shown that breastfeeding increases IQ and contributes to cognitive, emotional and behavioural development.

Sleep is something that we all need. Professor Russell Foster of Oxford University discusses the importance of sleep in our lives.

These days we all have a lot of 'stuff'. We transport it from dwelling to dwelling, and if we don't have enough space for it we hire out extra space to store it. But do we really need all this stuff?

It's worth taking the time out to give your work desk a clean up. Studies suggest that dirty work desks harbour and spread bacteria and viruses.

Previously buried medical research undertaken in the UK published in 2005 has come to light showing that alcoholic drinks made through the fermentation of white and red grapes contain small amounts of a drug known as Fantasy. Fantasy is the street name for gamma-hydroxy butric acid (GHB) and related substances (including the alcohol butanediol) and was one of the first new drugs examined by the NZ Government’s Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs (EACD) using new “evidence-based” criteria in 2001. On the basis of this EACD investigation, Fantasy was scheduled as a Class B prohibited drug, which means this set of drugs are considered to be of high risk to public health.

A 'superbroccoli' developed by scientists in the UK claims to ward off heart disease and fight cancer.