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Auckland GP ‘Discovered’ by Seven Sharp – 18+ Months Later

Auckland GP ‘Discovered’ by Seven Sharp – 18+ Months Later

In June 2020, Auckland General Practitioner Dr Sandhya Ramanathan produced a video on her cell phone that went ‘viral’. In this video, Dr Ramanathan was offering advice on what to do should we become infected with the ‘deadly’ SARS-CoV-2 virus. On August 9, 2021, Dr Ramanathan, was awarded a Community

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Critically Understaffed and with Omicron Looming, Why Isn’t NZ Employing More of Its Foreign-Trained Doctors?

Johanna Thomas-Maude Sharon McLennan Massey University Johanna Thomas-Maude is aPhD candidate in Development Studies at Massey University. Dr Sharon McLennan is a senior lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University and teaches global citizenship in the Massey BA core courses. New Zealand’s critical shortage

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No Exemptions, from a Heartless MOH

No Exemptions, from a Heartless MOH

Information Opinion I am a hospital specialist who is grudgingly double-jabbed with the mRNA shot. I was coerced into it by our draconian Labour Government under threat of losing my job and income. I had two shots late last year, and that was ‘the deal’ at the time – a third

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Why It Is Important to Apply for a Vaccine Exemption

Why It Is Important to Apply for a Vaccine Exemption

Gary Moller garymoller.com Apply for a Vaccine Exemption If Any of the Following Conditions Are Familiar to You: * Has had a suspected adverse reaction to the jab, no matter how minor. Bear in mind that, like a bee sting for some people, the immune system may become hypersensitive, and

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Designing Wearable Technologies to Solve Some of Our Most Pressing Health Challenges

Designing Wearable Technologies to Solve Some of Our Most Pressing Health Challenges

Leah Heiss lens.monash.edu Leah is a Melbourne-based designer and Monash University academic working at the nexus of design, health and technology. Through collaborative projects Leah has brought human centred design to technologies for hearing loss, diabetes and pre-diabetes, cardiovascular disease, gut disease and loneliness. As we increasingly rely

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It’s Official COVID is Over in Sweden!

It’s Official COVID is Over in Sweden!

Sebastian Rushworth M.D. sebastianrushworth.com I work as a junior physician in Stockholm, Sweden. I studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute and graduated in January 2020. I am a proponent of evidence-based medicine. In other words, I think that medical diagnosis and treatment should be guided by the scientific

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NZ’s Child Mask Mandates Are Breathtakingly Immoral

Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in  German Literature. ‘There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ Nelson Mandela Masking children is not indicated and is a huge threat to child well-being while masking anyone

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How the Children of COVID Are Suffering Pt 2

As I reported in Part 1, the long-term hangover of the covid panic is already showing up. The effects on adults — unemployment, economic hardship, mental health, surging rates of cancer and other normally treatable diseases — are bad enough. But the scars inflicted on a generation of children are proving much

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Why There’s No ‘I’ in Pregnancy

Andrea Mrozek mercatornet.com Andrea Mrozek is a senior fellow at the Canadian think-tank Cardus. Pregnancy. An injury? Run-of-the-mill event? Special circumstance? Choice? A recent report in the National Post highlighted the indignation of Olympic athletes in learning that pregnancy is often categorised by the I-word — “injury” — in their contracts.

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How the Children of COVID Are Suffering Pt 1

We all know that the costs of the pandemic panic far outweigh the illusory benefits of lockdowns and mask mandates. Well, you know, because you read The BFD, not the lying mainstream media. We’ve been warning for nearly two years of the literally deadly cost of the pandemic panic

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Council Scared of Paper Cuts?

Council Scared of Paper Cuts?

Dear Editor It looks like the Ashburton District Council is doing its best to exacerbate the country’s housing crisis by applying the brakes to their consent process. Subject: ADC Update under Red Traffic Light Setting Good morning, The following is an update to council’s position under the Red

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Face of the Day

Murupara’s GP of 30 years standing, Dr Bernard Conlon, is to be suspended from practising medicine as of Friday. […] “To take me out of practice after three decades of dedicated service to my community is frankly difficult to comprehend, especially with winter coming and Covid-19 at our gates,” he

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Here we go again: Numerous Adventure Events Cancelled!

Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance rather than just treating the symptoms. I’ve written this article for the adventure sports industry. However, what I have got to say here applies to other

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