Mike Houlahan

Mike Houlahan reviews Ian Nathan's Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson & the Making of Middle Earth, published by Harper Collins. 

Has the ongoing review of privacy legislation missed an opportunity to clear up the tangled web of rules covering private health information, Health reporter Mike Houlahan asks.

Elder abuse need not be as dramatic as violence acts or theft — it can be as simple as ignoring someone who is lonely, a residential care facility manager says.

Dunedin urologists and radiation oncologists say local prostate cancer patients are fully informed of all treatment options for their condition.

Fin Heads had hoped he would be handing over a brass plaque to mark his donation to the children's ward at Dunedin Hospital, but instead he has been left feeling brassed off.

Prostate cancer patients need to be told radiation oncology is a treatment option for their condition, the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Radiologists says.

It took a 385-page application, but Dunedin couple Dorjee and Patricia Tsering have seemingly convinced the Government they are husband and wife.

Verbal abuse and physical violence are hardy perennials in hospital emergency departments, but staff tend to regard it as ''part of the job,'' new research shows.

Joseph Clements organised and produced a party in May celebrating his life and work - but bowel cancer meant he never got to see the Whare Flat show.

About 8% of New Zealand children have social, emotional and/or behavioural problems, and another 7% are on the borderline of having issues, Ministry of Health statistics say.

A focus by the University of Otago on recruiting Maori and Pacific Islander health sciences students has resulted in their numbers soaring in the past six years.

Dental school dean Paul Brunton is overseeing a rebuild of the facility.

New Zealand is overdue a comprehensive survey of its general practices, with new University of Otago research being the first look at practice size and location since 2001-02.

The southern region’s first colonoscopy under the national bowel screening programme will be carried out today in Dunedin Hospital’s new gastroenterology department.

Southern region patients' voices need to be heard by the district health board and WellSouth PHO, the Community Health Council says.