Can anti-depressants cause people to kill themselves, or even kill others? Melanie Reid talks to visiting Irish professor, David Healy, who claims that there is a very real risk of suicide from taking anti-depressants. He says only one out of every ten people is helped by so-called “happy pills”, and he claims that pharmaceutical companies have hidden evidence about the effectiveness and risks associated with psychiatric drugs. Reid finds out how Healy’s advice differs from the orthodox medical view in New Zealand, that these pills do more good than harm. And she talks to a 17-year-old who is searching for answers following the death of his mother. Could psychiatric drugs have contributed to her taking her own life?
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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