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Travelling with allergies
If you have a family member with an allergy, a simple trip away can be life-threatening.
Allergy risk may be tied to how you wash your dishes
A new study suggests that parents who wash their dishes by hand, rather than in a dishwashing machine, may unwittingly lower the likelihood that their children will develop allergies.
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Sick kids to get temporary tattoos by NZ artist Benjamin Lloyd
After a huge Facebook response, New Zealand artist Benjamin Lloyd is off to Auckland's Starship Hospital to give sick kids a unique artistic experience.
12-year-old cancer patients fall in love
Stella says she feels lucky, because without the 'yucky stuff', she wouldn't have met Lucas.
'Little battler', 9, fights ovarian cancer
Dakota Rose was like any other girl, until one day she felt a lump in her side.
Wellington mother says her son's brain tumours were shrugged off as toothache
When Huntar passed out from pain at a Wellington hospital, doctors said he had a toothache. But his dentist knew better.
Mother saves daughter's life after she broke her neck in a holiday waterslide accident
A quick-thinking mother saved her daughter's life after she broke her neck in a horrific waterslide accident by cracking her tooth to allow her to breathe.
What a Starlight wish really means to a sick child
It started with the arrival of an envelope with the Starlight logo on it. That little white envelope held the promise of magic. It made our girl cry happy tears.
Hypertension in kids isn't rare, but experts are unsure how best to handle it
About 7 percent of kids between the ages of 3 and 18 have elevated blood pressure, also called hypertension or pre-hypertension.
Parents struggling to afford drug that keeps their two children alive
The Australian mum says the cost of not giving her children the drug will be fatal.
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Kids put at risk of adult mental illness
One-fifth of Australian children, many with cold, angry or overprotective parents, are at serious risk of adult mental illness, says a new study.
Teenager saves stranger's life on the street
Wellington, New Zealand: An 18-year-old university student saved the life of a stranger – and was so overcome that he burst into tears on the kerbside.
Perth family battles daughter's brain disorder, pins hope on cannabis
Imagine being trapped in a body where your brain activity is so disturbed and unpredictable that you seizure for several minutes at a time, in several different ways, for several episodes a day.
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