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  • BODE3 Interactive League Table – how to use it

    … that policy-making and research prioritisation could be improved with not only stand-alone simulation studies and … and tobacco (further domains, e.g. diet and obesity, will be added in the future). The INTERVENTION button. Select from … cancer screening by ethnicity.  In the future, they will be (de)activated by a separate button, for reasons we hint at …
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  • Clean ups are not enough: Government policy incoherent on climate change

    … impacts.  However, the current Government appears not to be making these connections, bringing in a range of policies … of damage to homes in East Coast communities, it must also be remembered that the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill … the Select Committee: “If a housing development were to be applied for under this Bill, it could be approved without …
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  • Perspective: The NZ Health Research Strategy Discussion Document – much scope for improvement

    … assessments), the research funding processes seem to be fairly well trusted by researchers. Perhaps because it is a small country, NZ might be relatively better than others at learning from elsewhere … somewhat. See below for why further health research might be a particularly good investment. Research investment has …
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  • National capacity needed to monitor misinformation to protect public health and social cohesion

    … misinformation about vaccines can lead people not to be vaccinated, affecting not only their own health but also … research and monitoring efforts—a decision that could be shortsighted.  A continued lack of insight could leave NZ … DMPC, offers a model of how research and monitoring could be carried out. The report makes a strong case for the …
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  • Glass half full: Alcohol’s health benefits for cardiovascular disease still controversial, and likely vary by context

    … a seemingly J-shape association – but which might actually be due to bias according to the authors. The so-called … is deleterious regardless (e.g. injury), and should be differentiated from ‘average’ consumption. And the … led the authors to fence-sit. Whilst they agree there may be a protective association of moderate alcohol consumption …
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  • SARS-CoV-2: A modern Greek Tragedy?

    … based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. Image by  Clker-Free-Vector-Images … a problem (or explaining a pandemic), entities should not be multiplied without necessity. Basically, the explanation … that posits the fewest moving parts is likely to be the right one. Did the existence of nature cause a …
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  • Why the New Zealand Government should reconsider abandoning denicotinised cigarettes

    … health benefit of denicotinising cigarettes is likely to be profound. Repealing this measure risks seeing around 5000 … content and delivery. 2 The nicotine in tobacco can be greatly reduced (e.g. by chemical extraction or gene … 24 Supply of and demand for illicit cigarettes can be mitigated   The tobacco industry, echoed by the NZ Prime …
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  • The Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty and tobacco: no cause to celebrate

    … to tobacco, and breaches of the TPP might, in principle, be alleged in relation to tobacco. The TPP provides … the TPP allows disputes about tobacco control measures to be pursued by means other than ISDS – that is, by states … than investors. The devil in the detail The TPP must be read as a whole to understand its obligations and their …
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  • Update on Long-COVID

    … Photo by  Andrea Piacquadio  from  Pexels Long-COVID may be unique in the annals of medicine inasmuch as it was first … each other on Twitter. What is Long-COVID? That proves to be a question without an easy answer. When we first discussed … agreement about typology. The simplest classification may be that of Sudre et al 9 who noted two broad patterns — those …
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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … leukaemia. Likewise Sweden and the USA. Third, it may be surprising how well South Korea is doing. This is … early detection and treatment in Asia. There may also be some differences in type of stomach cancer compared with … the outcome is unchanged, the survival time will appear to be longer. For example, widespread uptake of PSA screening …
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