Watch this story now. It looks like a miracle: a man who seems comatose given new life by a well-known little pill. 60 Minutes correspondent, Allison Langdon investigates the impact a common sleeping tablet is having on the treatment of brain injury patients. Sam Goddard was a vibrant young man cut down in his prime by a sporting injury. Unable to walk and talk, he would have stayed that way if not for the dedication of his fiancée, Sally Neilsen, and the chance discovery of a remarkable medical breakthrough. After searching online, Sally decided on a desperate experiment; to give Sam a common sleeping pill called Stilnox. What happened next was beyond her wildest expectations. While scientists attempt to fathom what Stilnox unlocks in the human brain, around the world this accidental wonder drug is offering new hope to families who, until now, have had none. Watch this story now.
When news broke of substandard French-made breast implants rupturing at an alarming rate, women in New Zealand were reassured they very likely had nothing to worry about.
“New Zealanders eat cats.” That's what they are saying in the seaside village of La Flotte in Western France.
Turia Pitt was a successful long-distance runner competing in an ultra-marathon race through the Kimberley in Australia when she got engulfed in flames from a bushfire.
Hayden Te Wao is so big he has been deemed a threat to national security in Australia and been deported back to New Zealand.
Is sugar poisonous? New research coming out of some of America's most respected institutions is starting to find that sugar is a toxin and could be a driving force behind some of the Western world’s leading killers, including heart disease.
Brynne, Savannah and Tess are exorcists – all-American school girls who slay demons in their spare time.
What is Pete Bethune up to now? Believe it or not, his latest project is his most dangerous, some would say foolhardy, yet.
After 40 tumultuous years together, Aerosmith is one of the last great American rock bands standing.
From the start, he was branded the Honeymoon Killer. The Australian police were convinced Gabe Watson murdered his wife Tina while diving on the Great Barrier Reef, and the media and public agreed.
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