Eileen Goodwin

Few women work in the tough environment of the ships that provide logistical support to oil and gas vessels, says former Dunedin woman Jenni McLennan.

Wyndham farmer Dean Rabbidge won the ANZ Young Farmer Otago-Southland regional final in Gore on Saturday and will represent the area at the final in Auckland in May.

Despite turning 110 today, Maudie Wilson insists she is nothing out of the ordinary.

South Island district health boards are yet to appoint any of the dedicated cancer care co-ordination nurses to the roles announced in last year's budget.

The Ministry of Health is unable to say what the public will be able to glean from information to be stored on a new national register of cardiac surgery incidents.

Dr Mary Hardy, of the United States, speaks to a mostly medical audience in Dunedin yesterday about combining alternative therapies with conventional medicine to reduce the side effects of cancer treatment and to garner other health benefits.

Myah Tasker had a very special 7th birthday yesterday.

Dunedin Hospital patients are now waiting up to 40 weeks for a routine MRI scan, with efforts to reduce wait times mostly yet to bear fruit.

The Southern District Health Board is still drawing up a plan to fit in about 220 extra Dunedin Hospital colonoscopies without creating lengthy waiting times.

Ranfurly Medical Centre could benefit from a proposed tightening of the funding formula used for rural practices, practice manager Dianne Byrne says.