People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And an 18-year-old New York model waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart.
Three months earlier, Weslee Price Wootten had sent the Western Union cablegram that would change her life: Darling, I will marry you. All my love.
Noel D’Audney enlisted in 1939, an Auckland University student who [...]
The review for an article in the journal Evolutionary Psychology also suggested mothers with two young sons were more likely to encourage their children into risk-taking behaviour when playing than those with two daughters.
Author Valerie Grant, of Auckland University Medical and Health Sciences Department, said that a study had shown mothers with daughters were nearly [...]
Her brother had been accused of inflicting severe brain damage to his three-month-old twin babies in a Mangere home in 2006.
They died in hospital five days later.
New Zealanders were outraged at the family%26rsquo;s silence and opinions flared over how they lived and who was to blame.
Mona Kahui was reluctantly thrust head first into this media [...]
Some are on their third abortion, Auckland University associate professor Felicity Goodyear Smith says.
There are Korean, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese, but Chinese women predominate.
The numbers have dropped slightly in the past few years, possibly because fewer Asian women are choosing to study in New Zealand, schools are employing nurses and sex education and health promoters, [...]
Then he visits Simon Kellys Mt Eden chiropractic practice to unravel the damage done to his back by the relentless pounding of delivering a cricket ball.
IT HAS long been understood by sports science professionals that bowling puts huge stress on the body. Studies have suggested the moment in the delivery stride when the bowlers front [...]
In a hard-hitting editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal, Auckland University School of Medicine head Professor Des Gorman and medicine department leader John Kolbe said last months government report into serious medical errors was likely to be of no use whatsoever because it was based on poor data.
Pat Snedden [chairman of the Health Quality [...]
The British study, which involved 19,000 babies born between 2000 and 2002, found that at nine months, babies whose mothers had stopped smoking while pregnant scored higher for positive moods, the ability to cope with change and had more regular sleeping and feeding patterns.
Writing in the British Medical Journal yesterday, researchers from the University of [...]
