If you're struggling to get your beloved under the mistletoe this year, then help is at hand.

Just because Barbie has impossible proportions, does that mean playing with her will distort young girls' body image?

Eating at least two pieces of fruit a day can lower your risk of depression, a study suggests.

As Australia reels from the Sydney siege and its unhappy end, many will be wondering what can be done for the hostages stuck for hours with the gunman in the Lindt cafe.

We've rounded up the top ten health stories that you, our readers, clicked, shared and talked about this year.

If we treated people with diabetes the way we treat those with depression, there would be an outcry, says the new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Christmas crackers around the dinner table and Champagne corks popping are sounds of festivity and fun for most people.

The family of a man stabbed to death by his childhood friend and fellow online gamer are praying for the killer's loved ones.

My mother had clinical depression. As a consequence, I experienced difficult and upsetting moments in my childhood - none more so than when she was absent from home, residing in a psychiatric hospital.

Far from experiencing peace and goodwill at Christmas, nearly half of men admit to feeling sad or depressed over the festive season.

Sometimes we feel really stuck in a situation. Stuck in a relationship. Stuck in a job. Stuck financially. Whichever way we look we seem trapped, and that is stress-inducing.

A depressed mother who vanished with her newborn daughter in the English city of Bristol has been found dead along with her child, as friends accused hospital staff of failing her.

Larisa Van Zyl doesn't sweat the small stuff these days. The South African-born Kiwi feels it isn't worth it and, with what she has been through, you can understand that.

Ewan McDonald’s father taught kids to swim. Except for one child who was scared of the water.

This week, the state of Texas intends to execute Scott Panetti, who in 1992 shot dead his mother-in-law and father-in-law in front of his estranged wife and their 3-year-old daughter.

Mass killer Stephen Anderson who in 1997 gunned down 10 people, killing six of them, including his 60-year-old father is no longer tutoring at an art school.

As family, friends and cricket legends gathered at a Sydney hospital to say goodbye to Phillip Hughes, the 25-year-old's sister, Megan, sat with devastated cricketer Sean Abbott to offer him support.

Sarah Rainey talks to a sufferer of 'the most common disease nobody has heard of' - a form of dementia.

The long holidays are only weeks away. But how much relaxing we do will tend to depend for many on gender and psychology, writes Jill Goldson.

Let's face it - life is easier with confidence. Here are four techniques to raise your confidence that you can start applying today.

The boss of an art school that hired Raurimu massacre killer Stephen Anderson as a tutor is "seriously shocked" the school did so without knowing his history.

Abseiling down a 30m-high Northland cliff put Steva Rumsey at the heart of her deepest fear - yet she managed to complete the rope descent by herself and says it felt "really awesome".

Computer-based "brain training" is useful for older adults, but only if it's conducted in a group setting, research suggests.

A woman accused of using an online fundraising site to rip off nearly $20,000 has missed another court appearance due to her "very complex" medical issues.

A mother who endured the Canterbury earthquakes and then lost her 12-year-old daughter in a horrific car crash will give a keynote talk about resilience later this month.

Regular cannabis use shrinks the brain but increases the complexity of its wiring, a study has found.