Gardening, lying in bed, drinks with friends and hitting the gym are among the many weekend hazards to your health.

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.

Eddie has struggled with his sexual fascination for children but has now spoken out as radical new theories on how to prevent child abuse are aired.

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 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.

Robin Williams' autopsy found no alcohol or illegal drugs in his body when he killed himself at his Northern California home in August.

A Kiwi air traveller wrestled with a crazed passenger who tried to force open an emergency aircraft door mid-flight between Vietnam and Australia.

Lotto presenter Sonia Gray has started a mental health awareness campaign for young adult women.

When father-of-two John Dennis decided he wanted to ski to the South Pole, his first step was to take a "business case" to his wife Heidi.

You know that feeling, that nagging feeling that something is a little off. It might be the job, the relationship, a friendship or a family thing. But you have an underlying feeling of unease.

Babies born through Caesarean section are more likely to develop autism, a new study says.