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Media release: Time for single shot HPV vaccine schedule to prevent cancer in NZ
… Switching to a recommended single dose schedule for the human … cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand. The call to change from a two-dose vaccination program to a single shot comes from … the goal of eliminating all HPV-related cancers.” HPV infection is common and spreads through skin-to-skin contact, …
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Preventing diabetes: What does the latest modelling evidence tell us about health gains and cost savings?
… affecting the fetus [2]. People with diabetes have a substantially increased death rates and high morbidity (ie, … as the “diabetes prevention program” (DPP). The DPP was a randomised controlled trial that tested intensive lifestyle … (metformin) compared to the placebo group, 10 years after randomisation [6]. Large health gains and health system …
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Getting through together: ethical values for a pandemic
… In Aotearoa/NZ, Getting Through Together already provides a statement of shared values which can be used to guide a … now and in the days (and probably months) to come. After wide consultation, the Committee arrived at two sets of … are quarantined are given extra support and well looked after, in keeping with the extra burden they carry for …
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We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 1)
… should we be screening for breast cancer at all? This is a big deal, given that most developed countries have invested … cancers detected by screening that would never have caused a problem in a woman’s lifetime) caused by screening? These … from breast cancer is not statistically significant after seven (RR 0.93 95%, CI 0.79-1.09) or 13 years follow up …
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Media release: Poor ventilation on buses and trains – a fixable risk to health
… research measured carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels in air as a marker for poor ventilation. When more than half of the … show that passengers in these buses and trains are doing a lot of re-breathing of other people’s exhaled air. There was also a clear pattern of increasingly poor ventilation as seats got …
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Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ
… is growing evidence that nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there is also emerging … birth outcomes such as prematurity. This blog takes a brief look at this new evidence and puts it into a NZ … deficits, poor respiratory outcomes, impaired motor and cognitive ability, and psychiatric disorders. One US study …
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Aotearoa’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza: Heightened awareness and surveillance essential for early detection
… case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus infection on a free-range egg farm in December 2024. The subtype, H7N6, is … This highly pathogenic subtype likely evolved locally from a low-pathogenic H7 subtype found naturally in wild aquatic …
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Do people who smoke make truly informed choices?
… do no more than ensure people are aware of the dangers—a goal some argue has already been achieved. But what does … know the dangers of smoking. Tobacco companies have often promoted this argument, 1 despite spending decades … on future risks. Any later reflections are undermined by cognitive heuristics and few, if any, make anything like a …
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What will it take to get to under 5% smoking prevalence 2025? Lots of cessation.
… Professor Tony Blakely The New Zealand Government has a goal of a Smokefree Nation by 2025, often interpreted as a smoking prevalence of less than 5% by … or increases the marginal quit rate from 10% to (say) 11% after six months, this is only going to be a small part of …
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Google Street View – A Useful Research Tool?
… Google Street View can be amusing – as with the image of a cow with its face blurred out by Google’s algorithm for … ). But this tool can help with research – as we report in a just published review in the journal “Tobacco Control”. In … shade provision in childrens’ playgrounds. But GSV is often only able to show features of parks and playgrounds …
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