For one member of the choir Heaven Bent, last Sunday’s service to honour organ transplants had an extra special meaning. Chorister Tania Wilson received a kidney transplant in 1990, and on Sunday she sang with her community choir in an emotional thanksgiving service at Parnell’s Holy Trinity Cathedral. The service, organised by Organ Donation New [...]

Something humans share with chimpanzees is the tendency to succumb to peer pressure – as soon as we can walk, says a new study published in the Current Biology journal. The study says that when it comes to social development chimpanzees and toddlers as young as two have shared strategies for learning. Boxes with three [...]

Muslim Aucklanders are set to benefit from a new health service aiming to boost awareness of mental health issues within their community. The Auckland District Health Board is launching a Muslim Mental Health Liason Service after a report indicated there was a lack of mental health awareness within the Muslim population. The report, called Muslim [...]

A Te Waha Nui survey of Auckland’s members of Parliament suggests the results of a conscience vote on raising the legal drinking age could be hard to pick. The vote is a part of National’s Alcohol Reform Bill, which is to be voted on in August. MPs will choose between keeping the legal drinking age [...]

Twenty-one-year-old student Emily Thyberg joined Labour leader David Shearer and sports star Sonny Bill Williams among the 3211 participants in Shave a Cure this year. So far the appeal has raised $1,063,779. Thyberg was inspired by two of her friends who were participants in Shave a Cure last year. “Even though I’ve had long hair [...]

Researchers from universities in Auckland, Liverpool and Maastricht have found that children who experience childhood trauma are three times more likely to develop schizophrenia in later life. Schizophrenia affects approximately one in every 100 people and is most common for people between 15 and 30 years of age.  Professor John Read, from the University of [...]

It’s official. Drinking water during exams can improve your grades, says a new study presented at a psychology conference in London last week. The study of 447 students conducted by the University of East London and the University of Westminster found that bringing water with you while sitting an exam can improve your grade by [...]

A new practical and fashionable headwear has hit the market aimed at women going through chemotherapy. Designer Kerrin Osborne, founder of Kaus Hats, was inspired to start up the label after watching her mum struggle to find suitable headwear she could wear while undergoing treatment for cancer. “My mum found her wig itchy. She would [...]

A disabled man has been reunited with his family after a Te Waha Nui article was posted on Facebook. George Butcher, who had seemingly been lost after he was placed in care when his mother moved to Australia, was found in a home in Ranui, not far from where the family first started looking. His [...]