John Gibb

An experienced former hospital oncologist, Dr David Perez, has been appointed to lead a new group to provide clinical advice over Dunedin Hospital’s redevelopment.

Ritchies has switched to big, simpler signs to end  problems with cluttered, hard-to-read messages on the front of buses.

Seven bank staff and University of Otago staff volunteers pitched in early yesterday and quickly redeveloped and transformed a planter box vegetable garden area at Sara Cohen School, Dunedin.

Six senior University of Otago pharmacy students have done ''amazing'' work to raise awareness about the benefits of the prescription subsidy card scheme.

Conventional  notions of a "picket fence'' family life that underpin New Zealand's social policies do not match the reality of many young people's lives.

New University of Otago research suggests that targeting preschoolers in television advertising promotes tensions in families.

Despite major achievements arising from the past use of vaccines, including the eradication of smallpox, there is no room for complacency over the continuing need to vaccinate.

Dunedin resident Ben Henry was yesterday delighted and "overwhelmed" after being named Competenz Butcher Apprentice of the Year.

A new national study highlights the relatively high popularity of walking as a form of transport in Dunedin, and suggests big health benefits would flow from further increasing such exercise.

People should move beyond mere tolerance and try to understand more about others with different faiths and cultures, an Islamic scholar says

No-one was hurt in a collision between a car and a bus at the intersection of Glenpark Ave and Argyle St, in Mornington, Dunedin, about 5.40pm yesterday.

It may be a case of more is less when it comes to some of the new route signs on Dunedin buses.

A leading University of Otago microbiologist, Emeritus Prof Frank Griffin, has urged university graduates to seek "win-win outcomes" in the workplace and elsewhere.

Associate Prof Michael Schultz,  the new head of the University of Otago’s  department of medicine,  recently spoke to John Gibb about  his vision for the  school’s future.

Eight Otago people who recently took part in medical research may have gained the ultimate gift — of life  — after aneurysm risks were detected and overcome through surgical repair.