Mike Houlahan

Recognising unresolved or undeclared trauma is one key to lowering New Zealand's youth suicide rate, a visiting British psychotherapist says.

Visiting British doctor Mobasher Butt is either a godsend or a devil, depending whom you listen to.

If a treatment programme is proven to work money will be available to fund it, Health Minister David Clark told a gathering of mental health professionals in Dunedin yesterday.

In Yes Minister, Jim Hacker famously rose to the premiership on the strength of his defence of the humble British banger over the threat posed by the "Euro Sausage."

On World Hepatitis Day 2018 campaigner Hazel Heal was celebrating the Government's commitment to fund drugs which can cure the disease.

Northern Southland residents remain on tenterhooks waiting for Parliament's health select committee to decide the fate of a petition calling for the Lumsden Maternity Centre to be saved.

The South is a step closer to once more having an elected health board, after former Southern District Health Board medical officer of health Marion Poore became the first person to confirm they...

On May 21 and 22 this year a Dunedin man transferred a six-figure sum in two tranches to the care of his financial adviser, Barry Kloogh, feeling secure in the knowledge he was set for retirement.

Parliament's health select committee has again delayed a decision on whether to progress a petition calling for the Lumsden Maternity Centre to be saved.

Having had 222 applications this year for training, work as a family doctor remains an attractive proposition, the president of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners says.

Several elective surgeries had to be postponed last week at Dunedin Hospital after winter demand meant the facility ran out of beds for patients.

A trust that aims to support patients with brain tumours and educate medical practitioners about how to spot the symptoms of the potentially fatal illness is about to launch in Dunedin.

Retired Mosgiel pilot Tom Enright has come full circle and landed back at Taieri aerodrome. He talks to Mike Houlahan about his autobiography and a life spent up in the sky. 

Dunedin researcher Renee Hollis wants your family’s World War 2 stories, no matter how big or how small.

You could forgive Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean for thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence ... or at least the other side of the Alps.

The rate of reported flu-like diseases has sharply dropped nationally in the past week, but that trend has seemingly not reached the South.

Loving where you live has a close connection with your wellbeing, University of Otago researchers say.