General Practitioners at a symposium in Dunedin at the weekend were encouraged to educate themselves on medicinal drug risks because they would not get the whole story from pharmaceutical companies, who worked to increase their market, rather than inform it from a balanced perspective.
Health authorities have another reason to extol the benefits of flu jabs - they might prevent your child from developing schizophrenia.
Smoking areas linked to three secure wards at Wakari Hospital will be retained, but four other outdoor smoking areas will be phased out.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) had a strong genetic basis and was not the "too-much-sweets disorder", Prof Anita Thapar told a one-day genetics symposium at the University of Otago yesterday.
A long-awaited apology from Dunedin student magazine Critic over an article about homeless people in Dunedin has finally made it into print.
Living with dementia is difficult but it helps to have a positive outlook, says a Dunedin sufferer.
A call for the reinstatement of the pilot smoke-free scheme for some Wakari Hospital patients "without inappropriate undermining delay" was described by Richard Thomson at a meeting in Invercargill yesterday as a personal attack on him.
The Southern District Health Board has reinstated smoking rights at a ward in Wakari Hospital where staff were running an unauthorised smoke-free pilot scheme involving locked-in psychiatric patients.
Dunedin student magazine Critic is under fire over comments it published about three of Dunedin's most vulnerable citizens.
Removing the right of some locked-in psychiatric patients to smoke at Wakari Hospital breaches human rights and should not have been implemented without the say-so of the health board, Southern District Health Board member Richard Thomson says.
A major conference focusing on the future treatment of people with schizophrenia will be held in Invercargill on May 10 and 11.
The mental health problems long experienced by Irish immigrants in England, Australia and New Zealand also highlight challenges facing today's refugees and asylum-seekers, Australian historian Prof Elizabeth Malcolm says.
A mental health outpatient programme at Dunedin Hospital may be closed, in a proposed move described as "radical" by a Dunedin psychotherapist.
Former psychiatric patient-turned-psychologist Rufus May has been shaking up the treatment of mental illness by talking to the voices people hear, reports Chris Barton, of the NZ Herald.
