An Auckland taxi driver who allegedly refused to pick up a wheelchair patient from a hospital rank has been condemned by an industry leader for "appalling behaviour." The Transport Agency has also threatened action.

Austria announced plans to exhume graves containing the remains of 220 suspected victims of Nazi Germany's infamous euthanasia programme yesterday.

The Chief Human Rights Commissioner is 'deeply disappointed' the Crown is to appeal a High Court ruling on caregivers' rights.

The Ministry of Health is to appeal a court ruling that parents caring for disabled adult children are eligible for financial support.

A watchdog has slammed three organisations over the locking up of a alcoholic, 43, in a resthome for more than a year without proper legal authority.

Two firms caring for the disabled asked to be put under statutory management as they could not afford the potential $176m liability of a requirement to pay sleeping workers.

Garth George writes that an expanded screening programme for Down Syndrome may go against the rights of the disabled.