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  • Media release: Aotearoa New Zealand is flying blind on misinformation

    … the past year. "Organisations that tracked and reported on online content have recently closed, and progress on new social media regulations has stalled," he says.  Dr … of investment is needed to listen to what is being shared on public, online platforms and to identify key trends or …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … these problems and explore potential solutions: (i) build on the past NZ success of regulating lower contamination … meat [ 1 ]. In addition, recently presented research on AMR has found that a tetracycline and fluoroquinolone … infection a year in NZ. This estimate is based on 6776 notified cases in the last calendar year [ 4 ], a …
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  • Progress towards a Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan: Congratulations to the Government

    … We congratulate the NZ Government on its proposed Action Plan for the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 … includes many ideas for new interventions; we focus on three of these, outlining their rationale and evidence … undermines smokefree initiatives. For example, quitters report that tobacco’s ubiquity triggers relapse and can …
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  • Antiviral stockpiles for pandemic preparedness: Time for a careful rethink?

    … response to this 2009 pandemic ( reviewed here in the NZ Medical Journal ) – albeit a relatively mild pandemic … of adults with oseltamivir had no significant effect on hospitalisations and zanamivir hospitalisation data were … have been included in the last two issues of the British Medical Journal – and might continue for some time yet. There …
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  • Strengthening Omicron mitigation strategies in Early Childhood Education settings

    … have the highest rates of hospitalisation among people under the age of 18 years, although hospitalisations among … Covid-19 are uncommon (1 to 2% of infected young persons under the age of 20 years). 1 With Omicron infection, … olds attended ECE. However, the pandemic has had an impact on attendance and in 2021 there was a slight drop in these …
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  • Smokefree cars – an important step towards protecting children from the hazards of smoking

    … On November 28 new legislation to protect children from … car law, and the landmark Māori Affairs Select Committee report recommended this measure in 2010. 5 Studies have shown … strong (around 90% or more) support for a ban on smoking in cars among children and adults (including …
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  • A Statue of Merit: Dr Margaret Cruickshank and the 1918 influenza pandemic

    … who killed Māori women. But in this blog we briefly focus on a public monument which we consider to have particular … pandemic while caring for her patients. The inscription on the 3 metre tall statue reads: “The Beloved … While we are not applauding dying in the pursuit of medical care in contemporary times (when we know so much more …
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  • 6 teaspoons of sugar a day helps the diseases stay down, in a most challenging way

    … Organization put out their widely anticipated guidelines on sugar intake for consultation. In this blog, we review some of the underlying evidence on the health harm of sugar, and then pull back to consider … just a couple of weeks ago in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), goes one step further. It found …
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  • Ventilation in NZ schools during the Omicron wave – results from a preliminary study

    … were dealing with active cases . Since August 2021, people under the age of 19 have comprised 35% of cases and 12% of … concerns about long-term effects of Covid-19 illness on children, including impacts on the developing brain. 4 5 … classes for students. The CO 2 levels remained well under 800ppm and there were no significant differences by the …
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  • Advising men on prostate cancer screening – is the cart before the horse in terms of evidence?

    … – including the cloudy nature of the overall evidence on benefits vs harms.  It is not reasonable to ask individual … of the RCTs, there have been a number of studies based on modelling benefits and harms of screening over longer … for screening. But these studies require many assumptions. On the other hand, a key advantage is that these studies …
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