The mother of a pregnant woman with learning difficulties pleaded with a UK court yesterday for her daughter to be sterilised to stop her having any more children.

Oregon's state mental hospital is trying to match surviving relatives with 3,500 people whose cremated remains were once stacked away in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."

Gill South sits down with leadership coach Sally Anderson to have herself pushed in the right direction.

A study of the benefits of relationships has confirmed a truth that many have long held to be self evident: marriage is good for you.

The festive season glow is fading as the reality of the year ahead sets in. Lisa Bradley reports on how to keep the return-to-work blues at bay and deal with the challenges ahead.

In 2005, Micki McGee, a lecturer in sociology at Fordham University, New York, published Self-Help, Inc: Makeover Culture in American Life.

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

The holiday is over and that sinking feeling has set in - it's back to work, back to reality.

A social worker, who took about $55,000 worth of cash and gifts from a mentally ill patient, has been ordered to pay her $100,000 in damages.

The quest may no longer be for the elixir of immortality but with an ageing population there is increased awareness of what it takes to live long and well, writes Dionne Christian.

An Otago University study has challenged the idea that depression and anti-social behaviour are primarily influenced by genes.

The husband of Maori Party MP Rahui Katene says he resigned as the head of the Mental Health Commission in 2008 after using commission money for personal spending.

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.