Rotorua ambulance officer warns low pay and trauma are driving staff to Australia
They were Manjinder Singh, Sandeep Singh and Varinderpal Singh, who were on their way home to Tauranga from…
Christchurch baby death: Expert tells inquest baby Soul Turany died from ‘abusive head trauma’
His injuries were not survivable, and he was taken off life support just after 3am the following day.…
Charlize Theron tells of night her mother shot her father dead
She added: “I never knew about a story like that. When this happened to us, I thought we…
Cassia and French Cafe restaurateur Chand Sahrawat on turning sexual abuse trauma into self-help book
“I am sorry,” she writes, in a draft chapter she shared with the New Zealand Herald ahead of…
The first cyclone since Gabrielle: Nervous Hawke’s Bay residents brace again
Paterson helped start readiness initiative the Rotary First Light Grab Bags project in the aftermath of Gabrielle. Quoting…
Childhood trauma inspires research into brain repair and recovery
What began as a child’s encounter with trauma has grown into a research programme committed to understanding recovery.…
Navigated TMS significantly boosts combat PTSD recovery rates
An advanced version of a procedure using magnetic fields to stimulate brain nerve cells in treating depression was…
Emergency room waits for mental health care are still too long
As of 2024, there were fewer mental health patients stuck waiting in hospital emergency departments than in 2022.…
Pain & your brain: The more traumatic events we experience, the greater our risk of developing chronic pain
In this edited extract from Tell Me Where It Hurts, Rachel Zoffness writes that the link between trauma…
Subtle Signs Of A Chronic Freeze Trauma Response
In a TikTok post, a somatic practitioner offered a simple yet complex answer to people questioning why they…
Māoriland Film Festival: South Auckland caregiver turns trauma into short film, Dawn
“I woke up to that police knock, which everybody knows. It’s that very specific police knock,” she tells…
Using machine learning to identify individuals at risk for intimate partner violence
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed a series of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that uses machine learning…