Bethany Reitsma

For many of us, the pursuit of health and wellness can quickly become an obsession - think of the supplements boom, the creatine craze, protein and fibre-maxxing.

On paper, Chantal Kelly had it all. She worked as a forensic investigator and undercover police officer in Australia, running her own dog food business on the side.

The first medicine has been approved for Kiwis living with a rare disease that causes multiple tumours throughout the body – requiring repeated surgeries to remove them.

You can't predict when or how you're going to die, but you may be able to estimate what you're more likely to die of depending on your age.

As more people than ever try to optimise their health to live to 100, one international expert suggests that trying to live longer might be making us less healthy.

When Ben Rose's 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, he says the family found themselves in an impossible situation - one with a price tag of nearly $40,000 a year.

Anyone who's lived through a New Zealand winter knows all too well the effect mould and damp can have on your home and health.

It wasn't until he went for a routine eye test that Stephen Clarke found out he had dangerously high blood pressure.

The gut is crucial to our overall health and wellbeing, but it can be hard to talk about the symptoms if it's not working right.

Does going to the toilet stress you out? It might sound like a silly question but, according to one expert, as many as 40% of us find that our daily lives are disrupted by our bowel habits.