Mike Houlahan

Peter Crampton, the outgoing University of Otago pro-vice-chancellor of health sciences and dean of the Otago Medical School, had big plans when he took over the roles seven and a-half years ago....

New Zealand needs to recognise and protect its health professionals, the University of Otago’s outgoing pro-vice-chancellor of health sciences Peter Crampton says.

If at first you don't succeed ...

A sharp decline in the number of people being diagnosed with HIV is encouraging, but it is too early to say whether that represents any sort of trend, scientists say.

A leather jacket is the most famous piece of Chills clothing, but a black jumper with a distinctive V design comes a respectable second.

New Zealand's health system is adept at dealing with individual issues but has made less progress in tackling long-standing or complex problems, a new report says.

The countdown to a nationwide nurses strike - the second ever - is about to begin after a pay offer from district health boards was firmly rejected.

Mike Houlahan reviews Brunhilde Pomsel & Thore D. Hansen's The Work I Did: A Memoir of the Secretary to Goebbels, published by Bloomsbury. 

Mike Houlahan reviews Ian Nathan's Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson & the Making of Middle Earth, published by Harper Collins. 

Has the ongoing review of privacy legislation missed an opportunity to clear up the tangled web of rules covering private health information, Health reporter Mike Houlahan asks.

Elder abuse need not be as dramatic as violence acts or theft — it can be as simple as ignoring someone who is lonely, a residential care facility manager says.

Dunedin urologists and radiation oncologists say local prostate cancer patients are fully informed of all treatment options for their condition.

Fin Heads had hoped he would be handing over a brass plaque to mark his donation to the children's ward at Dunedin Hospital, but instead he has been left feeling brassed off.

Prostate cancer patients need to be told radiation oncology is a treatment option for their condition, the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Radiologists says.

It took a 385-page application, but Dunedin couple Dorjee and Patricia Tsering have seemingly convinced the Government they are husband and wife.