The University of Otago has appointed Associate Professor Moana Theodore (Ngāpuhi) as the new director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (Dunedin Study)
Councils have been reprimanded for holding secret workshops behind closed doors too often and for invalid reasons such as allowing councillors a "safe space" to ask "silly questions"
When Wellington carpenter Samuel Parnell began the struggle for an eight-hour working day back in 1840, he could have never foreseen how modern work culture would evolve.
Many people first became familiar with the term “mRNA” when Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID vaccines were rolled out. In the simplest terms, mRNA, which stands for messenger ribonucleic acid, is a type of genetic material that gives cells in our bodies instructions to make specific proteins.
Aged residential care providers are losing up to $15 per resident per day, but Age Concern isn’t convinced that more government funding is the only solution to the aged care crisis
It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in New Zealand. Less than a week from the polls, a crisis in the Middle East offered opposition parties a brief chance to criticise the foreign minister’s initial reaction.
Unless someone high profile gets it, most of us aren't thinking about the dangers of catching Covid-19 now. We should be – it's our country's biggest infectious disease killer, twice as deadly as influenza
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management