Poverty debate clouded by government misinformation
Friday 31 August 2012, 4:35PMMedia release from Child Poverty Action Group: Child Poverty Action Group says any debate on how we support low income families must be based on a comprehensive and accurate understanding of current policy.
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The ANZ New Zealand and Equal Employment Opportunities Trust Work and Life Awards 2012
Friday 31 August 2012, 3:08PMMedia release from EEO Trust Communications: The ANZ New Zealand and EEO Trust Work and Life Awards had a record number of entries this year with 62 workplace initiatives across five categories.
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Healthy living into old age can add up to six years to your life
Friday 31 August 2012, 1:28PMMedia release from BMJ: Keeping physically active shows the strongest association with survival
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Kidney stones linked with small increased risk of later kidney problems
Friday 31 August 2012, 1:21PMMedia release from BMJ: Young women seem to be at greatest risk
Kidney stones are associated with a small but significant increased risk of developing more serious kidney problems later in life, suggests a study published on bmj.com today.
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Domestic coal use linked to substantial lifetime risk of lung cancer in Xuanwei, China
Friday 31 August 2012, 1:05PMMedia release from BMJ: Represents one of the strongest effects of environmental pollution for cancer risk
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Spina Bifida NZ Disappointed by Folate Decision
Friday 31 August 2012, 11:08AMMedia release from Spina Bifida New Zealand: The Minister of Food Safety, Kate Wilkinson today announced her decision not to introduce mandatory folate fortification into New Zealand, despite this being international best practice in 75 other developed and developing countries.
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NZORD - the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders
Friday 31 August 2012, 9:33AMMedia release from New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders (NZORD): Up to 20 babies every year will die or be seriously disabled by neural tube defects (NTDs) in New Zealand, thanks to the Government’s decision today to keep the fortification of bread voluntary, John Forman, Executive Director of the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders (NZORD) stated today
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Vitamin D use linked with fewer fracture admissions
Friday 31 August 2012, 9:19AMMedia release from MidCentral District Health Board: The improved use of vitamin D by aged residential care (ARC) residents in MidCentral District Health Board’s region has coincided with a corresponding reduction in those residents presenting with fractures at Palmerston North Hospital
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DHBs deliver more front line services
Thursday 30 August 2012, 4:51PMMedia release from health minister Tony Ryall: Health Minister Tony Ryall says the latest results of the Government's National Health Targets, released today, show district health boards (DHBs) continue to make improvements and deliver more frontline services.
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CDHB continues to deliver and improve on health targets
Thursday 30 August 2012, 4:48PMMedia release from Canterbury DHB: Canterbury District Health Board continues to improve on the Government’s health targets – showing its commitment to ensure Cantabrians access the right health services in the right place at the right time.
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Cervical Screening Awareness Month a prompt for West Coast women
Thursday 30 August 2012, 4:44PMMedia release from West Coast DHB: West Coast women are urged to use September – Cervical Screening Awareness Month – as a reminder to have a cervical smear test every three years.
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Minister passes the buck on folic acid
Thursday 30 August 2012, 4:31PMMedia release from NZORD: Up to 20 babies every year will die or be seriously disabled by neural tube defects (NTDs) in New Zealand, thanks to the Government’s decision today to keep the fortification of bread voluntary, John Forman, Executive Director of the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders (NZORD) stated today.
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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) took part in the Living Wage campaign launch in Wellington today.
Thursday 30 August 2012, 4:27PMMedia release from NZNO: Attendees at the launch heard from workers who slave all hours and still don’t make enough to pay the bills. The minimum wage is not enough
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Local cancer drug approved for first clinical trial in United States and New Zealand
Thursday 30 August 2012, 4:07PMMaurice Wilkins Centre & University of Auckland: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for PR610, an anticancer “stealth” drug invented in New Zealand, to move forward to human clinical trials through its approval of an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application for the drug.
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Waitemata DHB's performance continues to soar
Thursday 30 August 2012, 3:09PMMedia release from Waitemata DHB: Waitemata DHB has continued its stratospheric rise in performance against the Government’s national health targets
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Major works to get underway at Christchurch Hospital
Thursday 30 August 2012, 2:30PMMedia release from Canterbury DHB: The next stage in an extensive schedule of major quake repairs and rebuild projects for Canterbury Health System has begun.
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Primary Health Service Calls for a Living Wage
Thursday 30 August 2012, 12:25PMMedia release from Newtown Union Health Service: A low cost primary health service in southern Wellington is calling on New Zealand to adopt a living wage for all New Zealand workers
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Alcohol purchase age to stay at 18
Thursday 30 August 2012, 10:21AMMedia release from Justice Minister Judith Collins: Parliament has voted 69 to 53 in favour of keeping the alcohol purchase age at 18 years old after a conscience vote today
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Let’s not sacrifice our future
Thursday 30 August 2012, 9:58AMMedia realease from New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM): The New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM) supports the ‘direction of travel’ recommended in the consultation document released by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner on 28 August. With 22% of New Zealand children living in households with incomes below the ‘60-percent-of-median’ threshold we have much to work on and much to gain from expanding policies that have been shown to have an impact
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Smokers more than double their risk of burst aneurysm
Thursday 30 August 2012, 9:54AMMedia release from Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry:
Risk lessens over time if they quit, but still remains for heavy smokers
Smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk of a potentially fatal brain bleed as a result of a burst aneurysm, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
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Chronic stress linked to high risk of stroke
Thursday 30 August 2012, 9:52AMMedia release from Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry: Type A” personality and life stressors boost risk independently of lifestyle factors Chronic stress, prompted by major life stressors and type A personality traits, is linked to a high risk of stroke, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
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HPV-vaccinated women still need regular cervical smears
Thursday 30 August 2012, 9:41AMMedia release from the National Screening Unit: September is Cervical Screening Awareness Month and the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) is reminding health professionals that women need to have regular cervical smears, even if they have had the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine
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MRI scanners affect concentration and visuospatial awareness
Thursday 30 August 2012, 9:36AMMedia release from Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Standard head movements made while exposed to one of the three electromagnetic fields produced by a heavy duty MRI scanner seem to temporarily lower concentration and visuospatial awareness, shows an experimental study published online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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A new approach to health launched in Taranaki
Thursday 30 August 2012, 9:17AMMedia release from Tui Ora: A new approach to lift the standard of health for Maori and people with high needs in Taranaki received strong support when it was launched in New Plymouth today (August 29).
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WDHB retains high placing on the health target leader board
Thursday 30 August 2012, 8:42AMMedia release by Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB): Following its placing in the top four for five of six health target results in the third quarter, the Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) has been placed in the top four for four of the six quarter four results and well within the top 10 for all targets which chief executive Julie Patterson expects the WDHB to achieve.
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Bread fortifying with folic acid to be voluntary
Thursday 30 August 2012, 12:00AMMedia release from Kate Wilkinson Minister for Food Safety : The fortification of bread with folic acid will remain voluntary, Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson announced today
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More children protected from infectious diseases
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 4:00PMMedia release from Tony Ryall - Minister of Health : Over the past five years, New Zealand has gone from one of the lowest immunisation rates in the developed world to one of the best.
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Health link to poverty needs addressing
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 3:55PMMedia release from Labour PR: Maryan Street : The Expert Advisory Group’s report on poverty reinforces what we all know - that children living in poverty have worse health outcomes and we can’t continue to ignore it, Labour’s Health Spokesperson Maryan Street says
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MP Chester Borrows congratulates WDHB for elective surgery results
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 2:06PMMedia release from Whanganui DHB: Before returning to Wellington on Tuesday, Whanganui MP Chester Borrows met with key Whanganui District Health Board (WDHB) staff to congratulate them for their input into the WDHB’s outstanding elective surgery results.
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We can do something about child poverty - Children's Commissioner
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 1:44PMMedia release from Fuseworks Media : Proposed solutions to child poverty announced today have potential to pull thousands of kiwi children out of poverty says Children’s Commissioner Dr Russell Wills
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Generic Manufacturing: Pharma’s Quest for Salvation
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 1:40PMMedia release from GlobalData : On August 22, 2012, Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, announced the signing of an agreement with Mylan Inc. to establish an exclusive long-term strategic collaboration for the development and commercialization of generic drugs in Japan
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Integrated Maori health service set to launch in Taranaki
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 1:37PMMedia release from Te Kawau Maro :
Taranaki based Tui Ora Limited and the National Haoura Coalition, will tomorrow launch Te Kawau Mārō – an integrated approach to delivering health services for Maori and high needs populations in Taranaki – a first for the region
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Gay marriage a positive step for Maori children and whanau
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 11:51AMMedia release from Maori child advocacy : Maori child advocacy organisation Ririki supports Louisa Wall’s gay marriage bill.
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Medtronic Expands Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nuvasive
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 11:10AMMedia release from GlobalData : On August 17, 2012, Medtronic filed a lawsuit against Nuvasive, claiming the medical device firm’s spinal implant and bone graft products infringed upon two of its patents.
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BERL’s healthy Southland vision welcomed by doctors
Wednesday 29 August 2012, 11:02AMMedia release from OraTaiao: The NZ Climate & Health Council : Doctors have welcomed a report released yesterday on how Southland can grow good jobs without destroying the climate
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PHA supports better housing as part of reducing child poverty
Tuesday 28 August 2012, 4:30PMMedia release from Public Health Association: The Public Health Association (PHA) says practical proposals in the first report on solutions to child poverty from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner are a real step forward, particularly with regard to housing.
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Sit less, move more the message from physios
Tuesday 28 August 2012, 2:44PMMedia release from Physiotherapy New Zealand: Physios are warning we need to sit less and move more this World Physiotherapy Day (September 8)
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Cannabis use and IQ decline – NZ research
Tuesday 28 August 2012, 2:25PMMedia release from Science Media Centre : The persistent, dependent use of marijuana during adolescence has been linked to later declines in an individual's intelligence, attention and memory, according to a large, New Zealand-based study
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Adolescent pot use leaves lasting mental deficits
Tuesday 28 August 2012, 2:23PMMedia release from Duke University : The persistent, dependent use of marijuana before age 18 has been shown to cause lasting harm to a person's intelligence, attention and memory, according to an international research team
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