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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … stakeholders found that all respondents considered that the service was making a difference for people with Long … more than 12 weeks after their acute infection 1 . Some are referring to it as a new epidemic 2 . Health care workers … on the health and wellbeing of healthcare workers.” 21 What is new in this Briefing An innovative Long COVID clinic …
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  • A fat week – debates about saturated fat that will not go away

    … this week, teaching epidemiological methods to improve the quality and causal inference of our research – more of … looks weaker.  Fair enough, as such ‘ecologic’ studies are prone to error – but of course they are also prone to … co-occurrence of other risk factors, most notably smoking; what the ‘business as usual’ diseases are dominating in the …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … review this approach. This blog discusses some of the new evidence and suggests options for a review … and 300,000 of zanamivir ( Relenza ), costing $32 million. What is new (and recently covered in the media) is the … data held by drug companies shows that Tamiflu and Relenza are largely ineffective and governments should insist on …
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  • Severe domestic squalor in Aotearoa New Zealand: A preliminary survey

    … squalor exist throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. There are significant health risks for these individuals as well as … response and having a budget for cleaning homes as the most important suggestions for helping these people in their area. What is severe domestic squalor? In every community there is …
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  • What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes and public health

    … There are many ways that taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) … can be designed and implemented. These aspects can affect the likely impact on SSB consumption and health. This blog … preventing premature deaths and raising funds for health … What the Pacific & Mexico can tell us about soft drink taxes …
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  • The case for banning cigarette filters

    … The Government’s proposed Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan … product changes that sustain the appeal and addictiveness of smoked tobacco products. How did filters become an … filter tip material, the advertising and sales advantages are obvious .” 5 A report on Vantage cigarettes conducted for …
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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … A recently published review has quantified the estimated benefits and harms of taking regular aspirin … responses by NZ health agencies and research funders.   What is the evidence? The evidence that regular low-dose … from age 55 (using the data in Figure 1). If these lives are typically saved half way through this 20 year period, …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … or misleading information—poses a significant threat to the health of our communities. It can lead to poor health … protect against or cure the virus. 1 More broadly, there are well documented examples of how misinformation harmed the … and institutions, undermining social cohesion. 7, 8 What is Misinformation? There are a range of definitions …
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  • Management of Auckland’s border and COVID-19

    … of countries with reasonable quality data implies that the risk of Covid-19 infection for most vaccinated … Aucklander who happens to be there at the same time? What about if you’re in Northland or Waikato? It is genuinely … MIQ for 14 days, and undergo repeated PCR tests. Arrivals are also required to submit a negative PCR test result …
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  • It’s been 3 years since COVID entered New Zealand – here are 3 ways to improve our response

    … gave this country exceptionally low mortality during the first three years of the pandemic. However, widespread … We need to prepare for future pandemics and there are multiple lessons from the Covid-19 response. A global … them. This is a huge advance in global health security. What’s new in this briefing The New Zealand Covid-19 …
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