Memory Walk to Parliament to deliver global dementia report
The report, “Attitudes to Dementia”, tracks the world’s largest survey to date on people’s attitudes and stigma around dementia. Seventy thousand people across 155 countries participated, including 1,088 New Zealanders.
One of those New Zealanders...
NZMA declares climate change a health emergency
In a statement, the NZMA have declared climate change a serious and leading threat to health and health equity, both in New Zealand and worldwide.
NZMA has joined health organisations worldwide, including sister organisations the...
Lifesaving Stopping the Bleed campaign targets road fatalities
Over the last two years, 2017 and 2018, 758 people have died as a result of road crashes, with 2018 having the worst total in a decade at 380. Some of these fatalities...
Report finds stillbirths significantly reduced over last 10 years
The rate of stillbirths is reducing for Māori and NZ European mothers, a report by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) has found.
The PMMRC is an independent committee that reviews deaths of...
“There for me every step of the way”
“Lucky” is not an adjective many people would choose after going through what Barbara Bew experienced. Yet despite enduring a terrifying domestic assault after a major health emergency, the Registered Nurse chooses to maintain...
Health Ministry’s new Health Infrastructure Unit on its way
Karl Wilkinson has been appointed to the role of Director of Health Infrastructure within the Health Infrastructure Unit. Helene Carbonatto has also been appointed as acting Group Manager, Capital Investment Management.
“I’m very pleased that...
Pain management – every health practitioner must play their part
Pain is a complex medical condition requiring a teamwork approach, specialists across the country have said.
Southern District Health Board anaesthetist and pain physician Dr Paul Templer said pain was “ubiquitous” in medicine.
He said about...
Healthy homework gets results
Researchers from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the University of Otago have investigated the effects of a compulsory, health-related homework programme on physical activity, dietary patterns and body size in primary school children.
Auckland...
“We simply can’t cope anymore” – Radiographers set to strike
Nearly 1100 DHB-employed Medical Imaging Technologists (MITs) across New Zealand are set to strike for 24 hours commencing at 0700 hours on Monday 30th September and are voting on a proposed second 24-hour strike on...
Rugby player leading way for Pasifika with disabilities
Once a successful Tongan rugby player with a career that took him to Japan and France, Isileli (Kai) Tupou is now following his other passion working with people with disabilities. He is also breaking...
DR WELLNESS
Opinion: Hope is the key
In an example of conventional medicine at its worst, a patient of mine recently had her beautiful hope dashed.
This inspiring young mum of two...
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