Category : What’s in the news?

Disaster

Disaster

Like all New Zealanders and many other people around the world, I’ve been watching and reading about the devastating Christchurch earthquake. The earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city and situated approximately halfway down the east coast of the South Island, at lunchtime on February 22. The death toll has now reached 103 and [...]

Professor Swee Tan

Professor Swee Tan

I read recently about a New Zealand surgeon named Professor Swee Tan, whose team at Hutt Hospital have developed an effective way of shrinking and removing strawberry birthmarks. These are marks at birth which grow from almost nothing into tumours that can cover a large part of a child’s face. Professor Tan has discovered the [...]