Eileen Goodwin

Ground-breaking research into "male menopause" has shown it is a real but reasonably rare condition, Prof Fred Wu told academics at Dunedin Hospital yesterday.

Arthritis research in Dunedin has received a $2 million boost in the form of a bequest from a sufferer of the disease.

Eight-year-old bull mastiff Daphne may well get the spring back in her step, after becoming the first animal in Dunedin to have stem cell therapy.

School health programmes for disadvantaged young people are under review.

Child health researcher Prof Barry Taylor's contribution to University of Otago research was recognised in Dunedin this week.

Rory Webster, of E. C. Shaw Plumbers, cleans around the Queens Gardens cenotaph in Dunedin with a water-blaster yesterday.

Up to nine free car parks will be sacrificed on Anzac Ave for 650m of cycle lanes, providing the "missing link" in the Otago Harbour cycleway, Dunedin City Council roading projects engineer Evan Matheson announced yesterday.

The cost of a hot meal delivered at lunchtime is about to go up for many elderly people receiving Meals on Wheels in Otago and Southland.

Height and weight checks on pregnant women should be standardised by the Ministry of Health to cut the risk of complications, a Southern District Health Board obstetrician/gynaecologist says.

Conditions in a pilot scheme touted as the egg industry's future are not much better than standard battery hen cages, animal welfare advocates say.

Otago and Southland ranked poorly in a clinical leadership survey partly because of Southern District Health Board chief executive Brian Rousseau's "propensity to get fixations on particular issues", Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Ian Powell says.

Health Minister Tony Ryall has given approval for the Southern District Health Board to buy a new multimillion-dollar linear accelerator for Dunedin Hospital.

Amnesty International Otago University Club member Aakash Chhibber donned Pacific Island women's dress yesterday to highlight a petition calling for action to protect women in the Pacific Islands from violence.

Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples says the controversial Rugby World Cup waka he is backing has support in Dunedin.

Cage dweller Carl Scott is in good spirits, despite having eggs hurled at him a couple of times.