The truth about DOW

From the DOW parody site: http://www.dowethics.com/ "Dow is responsible for the birth of the modern environmental movement. In 1969, Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring about the side-effects of a Dow product, DDT, on North American bird populations. Her work created a groundswell of concern, sparking the birth of many of today's environmental action groups. Another example of Dow's commitment to Living. Improved daily." [delve]

Go-ahead for 'designer' baby

A couple has been given the go-ahead to create a baby which could save their seriously ill son's life [delve]

Revealed: car fumes give children asthma

Likely to have an explosive effect on transport and health policy in Britain [delve]

Reduce dioxin in our food!

Safe Food Campaign Press Releaase [delve]

NZ children eat 13 dessertspoons of sugar before lunch..

Green Safe Food spokesperson Sue Kedgley says newly introduced nutrition labelling reveals that many school children may be eating up to 13 dessertspoons of sugar before lunch every day. [delve]

Greenpeace Highlights Chemicals In Toxics-Map

Greenpeace's updated and revamped toxics map is up and running. Hot on the heels of the New Zealand Government signing the Stockholm Convention, an international treaty which aims to eliminate deadly dioxins, Greenpeace has launched its toxics-map [delve]

Outlaw Deadly Dioxins Network Established

Join the Outlaw Deadly Dioxins communication network and email list. Send an email to outlawdioxinsnz-subscribe@yahoogroups.com [delve]

An Audit Of Cervical Screening

A retrospective audit was undertaken in the UK initiated by clinicians who were keen to improve the service they provide for patients. [delve]

Big Tobacco and Free Trade

An international conspiracy is killing four million people a year. By 2030, it will take 10 million lives annually, 70 percent of them in developing countries. This "conspiracy" is run by Big Tobacco: companies like Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and R.J. Reynolds, to name just a few. [delve]

Cervical cancer screening blunder

An inquiry into the practices of three health boards in Scotland was launched in August last year, after it was revealed that thousands of women had been caught up in a cervical cancer screening blunder [delve]

The Moral Calculus of AIDS

Tamara Straus, AlterNet If money and drugs are not forthcoming soon, AIDS will cause a plague in Africa not seen since the Black Death of the 14th century. Where is morality in the new global economy? [delve]

HIV/AIDS drugs

The cost of HIV/AIDS drugs [delve]

Liam Williams-Holloway

Two child-cancer specialists have made a formal complaint about alternative therapy provided to Liam Williams-Holloway. [delve]

Reporting and investigating adverse medical

Independent reviewer to review processes for reporting and investigating adverse medical [delve]

Death Watch:

Aids in Africa [delve]

Health warings over eating soya

A health warning sounded over the dangers of eating soya, sending shockwaves through the multi-billion dollar food industry [delve]

Tobacco companies worked to discredit WHO

Multinational tobacco companies, worked for years to discredit the World Health Organisation and subvert its programmes intended to curb smoking [delve]

Savings through restructuring health care

Treasury has been told it could save between $50 million and $160 million a year from further health restructuring that would see hospitals sharing administration services. [delve]

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Deciphering the latest report on mobile phone safety

The Guardian's science correspondent, James Meek, cuts through the apparent contradictions to decipher the latest report on mobile phone safety [delve]

Step towards auditing cervical cancer cases in Gisborne.

The cervical inquiry panel has indicated it is taking the first steps towards auditing cervical cancer cases in Gisborne. [delve]

Struggling with an albatross

But the industry is quietly struggling with an albatross — whether cell phones pose health risks. [delve]

Should Western Research Ethic Apply to Fighting African AIDS

The high cost of patented medicines, especially for AIDS treatment, has been a matter of great concern to the developing countries, especially African countries because of the high incidence of AIDS in the region. [more] - [delve]

Gisborne cervical smear inquiry

The Gisborne cervical smear inquiry had been granted a three-week extension [delve]

Changes to the structure of the health sector

The Government is changing the structure of the health sector, their rationale [delve]

Me, Myself and Irene under fire

Complaint against "Me, Myself and Irene" [delve]

Prostate cancer scare in Gisborne

There's another cancer scare in Gisborne, this time involving prostate cancer. [delve]

Cell phone hazards

either from the point of view of the phones or the towers - we are going to have quite a mess to deal with in the years to come [delve]

World health organisation on cell phone safety

The WHO report on cell phone safety [delve]

World Health Organisation report ranks NZ #41

Out of 191 countries New Zealand ranks 41st according to a World Health Organisation report. Detailed press release [more] and the full WHO report [delve]

Cervical cancer not the greatest scourge

Cervical cancer was not the greatest scourge known to woman [delve]

Drug Trade.

BBC Special report [delve]

Aids in Africa: the Orphaned Continent

How Aids was unleashed upon Africa - [delve]

World Aids conference

XIII th World Aids conference in Durban [delve]

Compensation for job stress

A former probation officer has been awarded around $1 million compensation after proving that job stress cost him his mental and physical health [delve]

World Health Organisation report ranks NZ #41 behind Morocco

New Zealanders recoil at a report from the World Health Organisation that ranks this country 41st - behind Morocco [delve]

Pay claims from doctors and nurses

Pay claims from doctors and nurses that threaten to blow out the health budget [delve]

Maori statistics

A statistical picture of Mäori in New Zealand [delve]

Database of prices of all anti-AIDS drugs

Brazil has caught world health authorities by surprise by asking them to set up a database of prices of all anti-AIDS drugs, to allow poor countries to shop for the best deal worldwide [delve]

Public interest vs privacy of the individual

Ultimately, it is about determining the balance between the public interest and the rights of individuals to privacy [delve]

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - Auckland

Four wards in Wellington Public Hospital isolated on Friday after the hospital ran out of single rooms where patients infected with MRSA () [delve]

Cheaper generic drugs to Africa to combat AIDS

US to allow the sale of cheaper, generic drugs to Africa, in a bid to combat the threat of Aids [delve]

Key evidence in cervical screening inquiry

After 19 days at the cervical screening inquiry, the NZ Herald’s FRANCESCA MOLD reviews the key evidence [delve]

Learning to handle alcohol

Learning to handle alcohol is one of the challenges your child will face as a teenager [delve]

Health reforms 'detrimental'

(Neo-liberal) health reforms 'detrimental' to cancer screening [delve]

Access to Essential Medicines

Access to Essential Medicines Campaign. [delve]

Under-reporting of cervical smear abnormalities

Inquiry into the under-reporting of cervical smear abnormalities in the Gisborne region. Official Website [delve]

Cervical screening standards

At 2 hospitals in the UK, standards of cervical screening became appallingly low, in the early 1990s [delve]

UK Info

UK, Information website [delve]

Cancer survival rates rising in UK

In the UK, Cancer survival rates are rising – but specialists are unsure whether people are really living longer or merely being diagnosed earlier [delve]

Avoidable deaths

70 per cent of deaths (in NZ) in the 0-74 age group were theoretically avoidable. Read the full report - [delve]

Income inequality linked with infant mortality

Income inequality in New Zealand has meant that more babies died than if the income gaps was better.  A stunning report in the Lancet uses our own research. [delve]

New History of Maori Health

Comprehensive New History of Maori Health [delve]

Skin disease hits large numbers

A serious skin disease in greater Auckland has led to the greatest rate of Cellulitis admissions to a children's hospital in teh western world [delve]

Suicide in NZ

One in four New Zealanders who died from injury between the ages of 15 and 24 had taken their own lives. Researchers from the Injury Prevention Research Centre at Auckland University will be asking young survivors of suicide attempts to explain why they took such drastic action. [delve]

Tuberculosis outbreak in Auckland

A major outbreak of tuberculosis in South Auckland [delve]

Pesticides and Parkinsons

People exposed to pesticides in the home or garden may have a significantly higher risk of Parkinson disease [delve]

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