The Associate Health Minister says he is confident it is safe for a schizophrenic man who beat a friend to death to be out unescorted in public, despite the victim's brother's pleas.

A schizophrenic man who beat a friend to death after being released from psychiatric care - despite telling staff he wanted to kill someone - is allowed back into the community without supervision.

No stage of life has a worse reputation than middle age. There might be some very good reasons for that, writes Shane Gilchrist.

Viva chats exclusively to Isabella Blow's former husband, Detmar, the author of a new book about the once-fabulous fashion icon.

Tired of having a ‘monkey mind’, and inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, Rebecca Barry sets out to find inner peace on a meditation course and talks to a woman who turned on, tuned in and dropped out in Bali.

It doesn't have to be wacky, but a bit of fun at work is therapeutic for staff, and for the business.

Concern is mounting over the increasing number of young Aborigine suicides.

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.

A Nigerian drug smuggler who duped authorities to get a job in NZ as a hospital psychiatrist came across as friendly but secretive, acquaintances say.

Researchers found people who were more introspective tended to have larger volumes of nerve tissue in an area of the prefrontal cortex.