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  • Is Keytruda for advanced melanoma cost-effective? Applying the BODE3 rapid cost effectiveness calculator

    … months, and even calls from politicians to over-rule the PHARMAC process (currently PHARMAC do not recommend … on the effectiveness of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is mostly for patients either failing on ipilimumab, or compared to … versus dacarbazine or best supportive care comparator). Second, PHARMAC is incredibly good at hard bargaining to …
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  • What public health lessons can NZ still learn from the United States?

    … The United States has many major health problems – including … some of these, particularly in the domains of support for nutrition and physical activity, tobacco and alcohol … in bicycle lanes in New York City suggested a cost of only $1300 per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained [8]. …
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  • Public health priorities in this election year

    … a range of public health challenges linked by a need for decision-makers to act.  These are all areas where we as a society have a choice about the path we take.  In some critical areas, such as New … the housing system is now under considerable pressure, not only due to the ongoing supply shortfall, but sometimes due …
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  • Eliminate the pandemic virus causing COVID-19 or risk an animal reservoir

    … Elimination has been an effective strategy for New Zealand in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic … by the influenza playbook; its longer incubation period makes tracing and isolation more practicable and puts … New Zealand on 28 th February 2020. With strong and heeded scientific input 1-4 under effective leadership and with …
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  • Decades old nutrition data leave NZ in the dark – updated nutrition survey needed

    … due to a lack of recent national nutrition surveys.  The last adult nutrition survey was conducted in 2008/09 and … data. We also highlight the tools and methods available for a new NZ survey and put the potential costs in context.  … the best option to limit iTFAs in NZ population diets.  A second example is iodine intake.   NZ women have low iodine …
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  • NZ’s long-running Campylobacter epidemic from poultry: Now with antibiotic resistance

    … infection epidemic with contaminated fresh poultry the major source. Added to this problem is the recent rapid … cases in Auckland. This AMR problem will, fortunately, only affect the clinical treatment of a minority of patients … the AMR organisms could have far more serious implications for patient treatment. AMR is considered a major threat to …
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  • Why NZ should consider adopting “mass masking” as an additional step to speed elimination of the Covid-19 pandemic

    … is common in some Asian countries as a control measure in the current Covid-19 pandemic. There is some suggestive … laboratory and epidemiological evidence of benefit for such mask use. Since the costs of mass masking are … number of under 1 for several weeks now . The above is only suggestive evidence for a benefit of mass use in public. …
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  • Long COVID Staff Clinic: Caring for carers in Taranaki

    … describes an innovative multidisciplinary approach used for Te Whatu Ora staff with Long COVID in Taranaki. A survey … stakeholders found that all respondents considered that the service was making a difference for people with Long … service does not receive dedicated funding and most of the time spent developing the service and creating resources …
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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 … ‘Trans’ fatty acids are accepted by everyone as being ‘bad for you’. Monounsaturated Fat Sources Omega-6 Polyunsaturated … is that of HDL (a type of lipid in the blood).  As a scientific community we generally thought increasing HDL …
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  • Patterns of declining smoking in NZ – But more action needed by the New Government

    … Just published results from the NZ Health Survey indicate ongoing declines in smoking for Māori and for European New Zealanders. In this blog we … of: e-cigarettes, plain packaging, the idea of pharmacy-only sales [6], and the Smokefree 2025 goal. Ongoing smoking …
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