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  • Australia’s Quarantine Systems Failures: Lessons for NZ

    … eliminates shared indoor spaces. To date, there have been no failures at the Howard Springs facility (a converted … cleaners, security guards and catering staff, are no longer allowed to hold second jobs due to the risk of … area, while contact tracers worked to ensure there was no community transmission of the strain. 32 It was later …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … programmes in Swiss cantons should be time limited, and no new screening should commence (2). The Cochrane review … in the US, Canada, parts of Europe and Japan. There was no RCT evidence for this screening prior to the commencement … Trials were eventually conducted and found to show no benefit and plenty of harms, in the form of unnecessary …
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  • Calculating cardiovascular risk with online calculators – scope for improvement?

    … Woman 70y, European 12% As above.  * All for non-smokers, no diabetes, no family history of CVD, but high blood pressure (165/90) … calculators give absolute percentages as though there was no risk of dying of any other cause. ) This probably starts …
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  • ACC turns 50: A more modern approach to injury prevention needed

    … (ACC) was launched to provide world-leading, universal, no-fault compensation and rehabilitation for personal injury. … barred, and in return, New Zealanders gained universal no-fault compensation and rehabilitation for personal injury. … injured without consideration of who may be “at fault”. A no-fault approach to injury compensation recognises that …
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  • Good firearms law needs multiple defensive layers: The Swiss cheese model

    … on almost every element of the Arms Act but makes no concrete proposals for change. It also fails to provide an … and have argued that it would not be needed if there were no failures in the licensing system. 15 No licensing system on its own can prevent mass shootings. …
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  • Limiting the size of single serve sugary drinks: New NZ study on health and cost impacts

    … 3% discounting). We found in our ‘base case’ model (no compensation for reduced energy intake elsewhere in the … suggests that an increased intake of SSBs results in no significant compensation of energy intake by consuming … an intervention that reduces SSB intake would result in no energy compensation. However, in order to deal with this …
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  • Removing the nicotine from tobacco: The key component of the current Smokefree Bill

    … make a quit attempt and quit smoking. These studies found no increase in possible adverse effects like increased … quit rates in the denicotinised cigarettes group, but no differences in measures of anxiety, mood and stress. 4 An … the Action Plan, albeit with some policy omissions e.g., no minimum price strategy, no clear action against filters …
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  • And now the Brits are doing it: A sugary drink tax levy on the industry

    … – reduce obesity rates by around 1%.  Sure, it is no silver bullet for the whole obesity problem, but an impact … cardiovascular disease 11 ; along with studies showing no benefit for health. 12 13 14 Yet even for two of the latter studies finding no association – the authors suggest the null finding is …
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  • How the tobacco industry targets young people to achieve a new generation of smokers

    … This year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) focusses on the tobacco industry’s … able to quit using approved cessation aids, they offer no benefits, but some risks, to non-smokers who begin vaping. …
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  • Dementia: Update on causes and prevention, including the role of COVID-19

    … to the development of Alzheimer’s [ 6] .   There are no cures for dementia and, although some pharmaceuticals have … been developed particularly for Alzheimer’s, there are no resounding treatment successes to date. Management … ORs were 0.89 and 0.56 respectively. There was no association with high cholesterol levels …
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