The co-owners of the health clinic flattened in the collapse of the CTV building were receiving counselling yesterday and expressed their sympathy for the families of missing staff.

A 23-year-old student has been in an almost mute, catatonic state since he was found with child abuse images on his computer.

Paying overnight staff to sleep will cost more than $500 million over three years and changing the law may be considered, Health Minister Tony Ryall says.

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."

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.

Margarita Politis is a glamorous 42-year-old woman who once appeared in a magazine with celebrity psychic Kelvin Cruickshank, excited they were having a baby.

A judge this afternoon ruled that name suppression should continue for a 28-year-old woman accused of murdering her newborn baby.

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.

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.