A company making ready-to-use tissue substitute for wound care and soft tissue reconstruction has won New Zealand Trade and Enterprise's inaugural Focus on Health business competition, Minister for Economic Development Gerry Brownlee announced today.

The 5-year-old girl mauled by two dogs in the eastern Bay of Plenty last week was discharged home to Whakatane from Waikato Hospital at the weekend. The girl suffered multiple injuries to the face and body when a pitbull and a staffordshire bull terrier attacked her.

The most visible part of Valley Flyer's community partnership with the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, announced in September, was launched today - a striking, new-look bus which will help raise awareness of the Institute's life-changing work.

Over 1000 entries were received as part of the Valley Flyer 'Design-a-Butterfly' competition that was held in the Hutt Valley over the last four weeks.

The New Zealand Government's health response to the tsunami in Samoa is now moving to the recovery phase. Plans are in place to determine the on-going help that will be required to support the health system in Samoa as they gradually return to "business as usual".

A radical transformation of the newspaper editorial and business models is underway, and it goes far beyond the current pay wall debate about charging for on-line content.

A group of French politicians led by an expert on eating disorders wants to put warnings on airbrushed photo spreads in magazines as well as doctored shots in used in advertisements and packaging.

Downtown Auckland ground to its annual halt today as the city's main street was taken over by naked breasts, motorcycles and thousands of men armed with mobile phone cameras.

Local Hutt Valley bus service, Valley Flyer is joining with the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute in a new community partnership.