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25,000 New Zealanders are diagnosed with cancer every year, and as the population ages, that number is expected to increase. There are various causes, notably genetic and environmental factors - of… Audio

Pathologist professor Richard Scolyer's melanoma research is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives, but now he's in a race to save his own. Audio

Promises, promises: it’s easy to forget which party has pledged what. Welcome to RNZ’s go-to guide for party policy ahead of the 14 October election day. We’ll keep updating this guide as policies are…

New treatments for pancreatic cancer are urgently needed. Yet, results from a small study published recently suggest that bespoke messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines that prime a patient's immune system to… Audio

Dr Jonathan Howard says over 800,000 Americans would be alive today if the US had taken New Zealand's Covid approach. Audio

The unvaccinated received a wave of press over the weekend which they used to campaign for the return of their freedoms. Other groups made vulnerable by Covid were lower down the media's pecking…

Dr Doug Wilson is a medical academic author and our regular correspondent from the other side of 80. This week he returns to discuss Pfizer's new oral antiviral drug for use against Covid-19. Audio

Analysis: Our epidemiologists and Covid modellers have faced an increasingly bitter series of barbs from commentators and columnists over the last month, and it's making their often thankless task… Audio

Every year more than 25,000 New Zealanders find out they have cancer, so what happens with diagnosis and treatment during a level 4 lockdown?

And for those people who are part-way through their… Video, Audio

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about the latest Covid studies, including the 80 per cent rollout of the Pfizer vaccine to Israeli adults and the safety of the vaccine for… Audio

Shane Reti says he can't understand why primary care workers like GPs and pharmacists aren't the core of the government's vaccine rollout. That's one of the topics touched on with the National Party's… Audio

Labour MP Kiritapu Allan shared the news yesterday that she has stage 3 cervical cancer and is taking medical leave to start the fight of her life. Posting on her Facebook page she prompted… Audio

A new international study argues that elective surgical patients should get priority for Covid-19 vaccines.

The research, involving 140,000 patients from 116 countries, suggests a preoperative… Audio

As New Zealand prepares to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Checkpoint asked epidemic disease expert Dr Adam Levine, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, to explain… Video, Audio

The government's independent review of drug funding agency Pharmac will achieve little if the purse strings aren't opened.

That's the view of medical advocates who have long described New Zealand's… Audio

As a young single mother in Arkansas with no medical training, Ruth Coker Burks cared for around 1000 men dying from AIDS through their final days. This was in the 1980s and 90s when the disease… Audio

Dr. Anna Dare was at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital when we caught up with her earlier this year. Now, she is at New York, working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, having travelled from the… Audio

When is the Covid-19 vaccine coming? Will it work? William Ray talks to NZ experts charting our path towards immunity. Audio

The next major pandemic could be inflicted by terrorists unleashing a bio-engineered virus on to the world, according to distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School, Vivek Wadwha. He joins the show to… Audio

New Zealand professor Gary McLean is an international authority on coronaviruses. He remains confident there will be a universal vaccine for Covid-19 before long, though he warns it may need to be… Audio

A vaccine for Covid-19 could be developed in the next 18 months, but it could be longer depending on how the virus mutates, the head of the Human Vaccines Project says Audio

Efforts to confront two different but potentially deadly diseases hit the headlines this past week. Both were complicated stories impressively reported and explained by the media - but sometimes… Audio

It's hoped a new immunisation programme will reach 100-thousand children in nine Pacific countries. The vaccinations are aimed at reducing high rates of diarrhoea, pneumonia and cervical cancer. Audio

A South Auckland doctor says the recent death of two babies in Samoa shortly after receiving a vaccine against measles has made many Pacific people fearful of getting vaccinated against the disease… Audio

Should New Zealand be looking again at the use of genetic modification for agriculture? Audio

A worldwide shortage of an anti-cancer vaccine has left many children and young people in this country with no option but to wait for the jab. At issue is the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which is funded… Audio

The qualities that make a good scientist, attention to details, slave to facts, willingness to work with white mice in windowless rooms, often make them the worst people to explain science, Dr Paul… Audio