By Kent Atkinson of NZPA Wellington, June 2 NZPA - Concerns educated parents in New Zealand were developing a form of "white flight" over immunisation of children against disease were aired at a Parliamentary select committee today.

Wellington, May 18 NZPA - The Government has started researching potential wide-ranging changes to childcare, family support, health, education and justice to allow for so-called precocious puberty in children.

By Maggie Tait of NZPA Wellington, May 11 NZPA - Science and business are getting a big boost this budget to focus on work to make New Zealand richer -- and they are also getting a lot of freedom on how they spend the money.

By Kate Chapman of NZPA Wellington, May 5 NZPA - New Zealand businesses and the Government have under-invested in research and development and need to change the trend now, the Prime Minister's chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman says.

Wellington, Feb 17 NZPA - New Zealand medical technology companies are backing themselves to be a billion dollar industry within five years.

By Kate Chapman of NZPA Wellington, Oct 8 NZPA - Anyone with a touch of the sniffles may now have to cough up more money to feel better.

Wellington, Oct 8 NZPA - Restrictions on the sale of over-the-counter cold and flu tablets containing pseudoephedrine are expected to be announced by Prime Minister John Key today.

Wellington, Oct 6 NZPA - Cold remedies don't need to contain pseudoephedrine which is misused as a pre-cursor chemical for illicit manufacture of methamphetamine, or "P" says an Auckland academic.

By Kent Atkinson of NZPA Wellington, Oct 6 NZPA - Advice being considered by the Government for tighter monitoring of people buying cold tablets containing pseudoephedrine may hold a hidden danger of boosting the "P" drug culture, a drug educator says.

Wellington, Sept 14 NZPA - The Government will announce next month how it is going to deal with the methamphetamine menace, Prime Minister John Key said today.