John Gibb

New University of Otago research is casting doubt on oft-repeated claims that ''gung ho'' and ''cavalier'' attitudes by farmers are contributing strongly to quad bike accidents.

Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia strongly defended the family-based Whanau Ora inter-agency approach to health and social services in a talk given at the University of Otago yesterday.

Information communications technology, including the internet, is providing ''exciting'' new possibilities for physiotherapists to boost community education and help deliver rehabilitation programmes, Dr Margot Skinner says.

Nearly 50 years after leaving the University of Otago School of Physiotherapy to work in Australia, retired physiotherapy teacher Pamela Bell is finding it hard to absorb the massive changes at the university campus since she left.

Physiotherapy has become a ''vital part'' of the healthcare professions over the past 100 years, University of Otago health sciences pro-vice-chancellor Prof Peter Crampton said yesterday.

New Zealand's obesity epidemic will be highlighted during a major scientific conference being held in Dunedin this week to mark the centenary of the University of Otago School of Physiotherapy.

Strong opposition to a proposal to open areas to commercial paua harvesting in Otago-Southland was voiced at a recent meeting at Portobello.

If you want to learn a thing or two about remarkable coincidences involving family reunions, you need look no further than Carol Ball.

It is in New Zealand's best interests to know much more about how climate change is affecting the Antarctic, University of Otago Prof Gary Wilson says.

Otago Heritage Bus Society organisers are ''absolutely delighted'' with the response from Dunedin passengers to a service the society offered, using two restored buses, on the Good Friday public holiday.