Adults who drank plenty of the free milk supplied at schools when they were young have a reduced risk of bowel cancer, a study has found.

Men and women who are in relationships for longer than five years are less likely to be depressed, researchers have found.

The festive season is a time of excess. But as the country’s top traffic officer Paula Rose tells Alan Perrott, there is little cheer in counting its cost.

Universal or voluntary membership? That was the question put to tertiary students in 1999 after the National Government passed a law insisting they choose how they should belong to their student association.

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

Two studies of human development, one launched in the 1970s and the other from earlier this year, reveal how different society is today.

Household crowding is being partially blamed for NZ's high rate of acute rheumatic fever among children and teenagers.

A professor nominates the 200 books that will teach you more than you will learn at University.

An Otago University molecular biologist has been awarded New Zealand's top science and technology honour, the 2010 Rutherford Medal.

Alcohol has become so affordable that it is cheaper than bottled water and approaching the price of milk, says a study made public today.

A review of the weight loss drug found the risks to patients outweighed the benefits, Medsafe's principal clinical advisor said today.

Four University of Otago researchers are believed to be the first to isolate and photograph the Rubidium 85 atom.

Standing on snakes and having trees fall on him are all in a day's work for the archaeologist who's been called Auckland's Indiana Jones.