Conditions and treatments
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Accidents and injuries
What to do if someone’s been hurt or poisoned.
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Diseases and illnesses
Health information and resources, for yourself or someone you care about, on common diseases and illnesses.
- Abdominal pain
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Back pain
- Bad cough in children
- Bleeding from the anus
- Bronchiectasis
- COPD
- Cancer
- Chest pain
- Chickenpox
- Chlamydia
- Colds
- Conjunctivitis
- Constipation
- Croup
- Diabetes
- Diarrhoea
- Diphtheria
- Dizziness
- Earache
- Endometriosis
- Eye and vision problems
- Fever
- Food- and water-borne diseases
- Genital herpes
- Genital warts
- Gonorrhoea
- HIV/AIDS
- Haemophilus influenzae type b
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Headache
- Heart disease
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Influenza
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Kidney disease
- Mastitis
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease
- Mumps
- Neck pain
- Osteoporosis
- Pneumococcal disease
- Polio
- Rashes
- Rheumatic fever
- Rotavirus
- Rubella
- Scabies
- School sores
- Shingles
- Slapped cheek
- Sleep problems
- Sore throat
- Stroke
- Tetanus
- Thrush when breastfeeding
- Tuberculosis
- Urinary problems
- Vertigo
- Vomiting
- Whooping cough
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Mental health
Information and resources on how to cope with mental illness, including depression, anxiety, dementia and more.
If the disease or condition you’re looking for isn’t listed here, try finding it on the Best Health website.
Disabilities
Information on some common disabilities.
Treatments and surgery
Sometimes you’ll need medication to treat a health problem. Or you may require surgery. Learn more about these treatments.
Need to talk to somebody?
Healthline is here to help you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Phone calls are free from within New Zealand: 0800 611 116. Read more
Flu shot best protection
Before his 49-year-old wife died of influenza last year, Mark McIlory had never considered that the flu could be deadly for fit healthy people. In this video, Mark speaks about his family's experience. Read more
Page last updated: 29 May 2013
