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  • Daily aspirin for preventing cancer and heart disease – where to from here in NZ?

    … cancer prevention seems the strongest (and comes from two randomised control trials [RCT], two cohort studies … is weaker but is still somewhat suggestive of a benefit from aspirin (e.g., for cancer of the lung, prostate and … – which is around 70 men taking aspirin for 20 years from age 55 (using the data in Figure 1). If these lives are …
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  • Media release: The economic argument for our world-leading smokefree legislation – new research

    … co-authors summarise their research in the latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre. The research … legislation. We take into account increased income from fewer workers getting sick and dying prematurely plus the money saved on tobacco expenditure from lower levels of addiction. The modelling shows quite …
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  • A new review on dietary fats: Putting its findings in context

    … fatty acids with the exception of a protective effect from C17:0 margaric acid ( consistent with some other … both saturated fat intakes and endogenous synthesis from carbohydrates and alcohol so are not ideal intake … review reported a pooled analysis of individual level data from 11 prospective cohort studies examining associations …
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  • Warmest New Zealand winter ever recorded – The Government should do more on climate change

    … time outdoors, lower electricity bills, less air pollution from domestic fires, and perhaps even fewer excess winter … and its own country-level responses are generally not far from token (see past brief reviews on the NZ response: here … some meat) – could lower emissions substantially, lower food costs for households, and reduce risks of diet-related …
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  • Note to the Havelock North Inquiry – Think Big

    … hundreds of thousands of people. What is clear from the reports is that it is impossible to completely … the Havelock North story. The water to the town was drawn from what was deemed a “secure supply”, but in hindsight it … of campylobacteriosis was halved by improvements in food safety in the New Zealand chicken industry, but it is …
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  • Risk proportionate regulation of nicotine and tobacco products: More rhetoric than reality

    … must implement robust policies to protect young people from addiction to alternative nicotine and tobacco products.  … 3 whilst still stressing the need to protect young people from becoming addicted to any nicotine-containing product. … The main price regulatory measures are excise taxes and GST; the latter applies to all nicotine and tobacco products …
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  • Media release: Plugging the gap: Aotearoa’s piped water loss far worse than global leaders

    … $122 million each year according to the  latest Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre . Research by Prof Nick Wilson and co-authors from the University of Otago shows NZ’s leakage levels at 22% … to address this – just one being local government keeping GST on rates.”  The Briefing also includes a historical …
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  • Robust vaccine surveillance shows safety – we need to communicate this better

    … post-marketing pharmacovigilance.  For example, data from NZ and overseas show that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 … a risk that is very small compared with the large benefits from vaccination in preventing both acute Covid-19 infection … the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA vaccine and the findings from this surveillance. Vaccine safety surveillance Since the …
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  • Living longer, living healthier? Latest Official Report on independent life expectancy in NZ

    … seen phenomenal increases in life expectancy at birth : From an expectation of 30 years of life for Europeans at the … and 83.9 for non-Māori females ( latest SNZ lifetables ). From an expectation of about 20 years for Māori at the time … years) but falls as a percentage of total life expectancy (from 10% to 7.5%). So what is happening in NZ? Below is a …
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  • Shifting all isolation/quarantine facilities to a single air force base: The need for a critical analysis

    … NZ, a facility maintenance worker in August was infected from a returnee, based on genetic sequencing of the virus … on shore leave).   Escapes of returnees have occurred from a number of Australian hotel quarantine facilities ie, in Perth , Sydney and Toowoomba . Escapes of returnees from NZ hotel isolation/quarantine facilities have occurred …
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