Health

The New Zealand government has just launched a campaign to tackle what is now a childhood obesity epidemic. The Before School Check (B4SC) programme will, by December 2017, refer on …
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Diagnosis is important in identifying and curing disease, but we cannot ignore that it also has a very strong social impact, says Doctor Annemarie Jutel, an associate professor at Victoria …
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In the world of city planning, attention is turning to the psychological impact of the built environment. Can a row of buildings make people as happy as they can make …
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Clinical psychologist Steve Malcolm talks to Sally Webster about his recent involvement in a diabetic trial and how value and belief work is vital in beating the now rampant disease. …
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If you’re female and have a good social life there’s less chance of you committing suicide – this was at the core of a recently published study, courtesy the Journal …
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SALLY WEBSTER discovers yet another layer of welfare related outrage was heaped on the British government yesterday. The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies issued a press release stating …
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If anything shows that people are desperate for a quiet and healing distraction from their frantic lives, it’s the frenzied buying of a meticulously executed colouring book that is purported …
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Caring for a ballooning population of elderly New Zealanders is one of this country’s biggest challenges and focuses largely on Auckland. This is not a new problem.

As colonial …
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IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD THESE DAYS. IT’S ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU CAN GET ON CREDIT. THIS YEAR’S RECORD CREDIT DEBT FIGURES SHOW NEW ZEALANDERS ARE HAPPIER TO …
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