Tying the knot is positive for the mental health of both men and women, according to a New Zealand-led international study.

A coroner is calling for a national legal help phone line for prisoners in police custody after a lawyer could not be found for a man who later hanged himself.

After knock-backs author worked hard to publish her own book.

A study of NZers shows kids who suffer psychological or social adversity are at greater risk of suffering long-lasting health problems.

A self-help course has been blamed by a coroner for the death of a woman who jumped from a Sydney office window.

Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"

It has been a bad year for the controversial Church of Scientology.

A new program to help reduce ACC costs will make it more difficult for some people to get medical scans.

The estranged wife of convicted murderer Tony Worrell says she regrets not doing more to make him stay home the night he drove into two cars.

Tony Worrell was responsible for Katie Powles' death when he deliberately crashed into her on June 3, 2008, a jury found today.

A mentally ill patient restrained in solitary confinement for almost six years is one of several disturbing cases the Ombudsmen have uncovered.

A man accused of deliberately driving his car into two other vehicles, killing a woman, said "he was going to f*** someone up", the High Court hears.