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...researchers based in Dunedin, New Zealand, reported a relationship between these different genotypes, adverse life events and depression. The Sydney researchers, including lead author Kay Wilhelm, soon realized they were sitting on a goldmine: hundreds of detailed personal histories covering 25 years that were perfectly suited to the testing of a brand new discovery. Some 127 of the original group - now mostly in their early 50s - agreed to give dna samples, which were crosschecked with their life stories. The result is a guide for working out depression risk: for example, a person with the high-risk genotype who experiences three...
...centers, by contrast, encourage parental involvement in everything from choosing meals to setting opening hours. "They felt like businesses, not child care," says Jill, a mother who visited several private centers in search of a place for her children. But Martin Kemp, ABC's ceo for Australia and New Zealand, dismisses the criticisms: "We wouldn't be the success we are if we didn't receive that support from parents." The company will go on expanding, he says, and this year hopes to add 8,000 places in the notoriously scarce under-two category...
...relationship: "I like the idea of my child getting to know someone and feeling really secure with them." Helen Clark's Labour-led government recently announced that all child-care workers must be qualified or in training by 2012, and starting next year, New Zealand's three- and four-year-olds will all be entitled to 20 free hours of early-childhood education a week. The next campaign, lobbyists say, will be to extend that to even younger children...
...Prevention is crucial with dementia, as medicines do no more than alleviate the symptoms for the 200,000 sufferers in Australia and New Zealand. The most common type of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, is characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells. Gradually robbing people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function, it typically kills within 5 to 10 years. Apart from the distress it causes sufferers and their loved ones, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: in Australia it drains an estimated $A3 billion a year from...
With a voice as pure as birdsong, she has soared to the top of the charts, becoming New Zealand's biggest-selling female artist. No, we're not talking about Hayley Westenra, the Wellington schoolgirl who took Amazing Grace to Enya-like heights, but the exotic musical hybrid that is Bic Runga. In 2002, a year before Westenra hit her high notes, this Maori-Chinese singer-songwriter took the simple guitar hooks of Drive to a new level with Beautiful Collision, an album in which she exploded genres - from folk to rock to country - with the glassy resonance...