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Revealed: Puberty Blockers for 12 Year Olds, Are They Happening in NZ?

Revealed: Puberty Blockers for 12 Year Olds, Are They Happening in NZ?

familyfirst.org.nz Watch the head of the Pediatric Society Dr Andrew Marshall confirm, under questioning from Simon Bridges MP, that yes – 12 year olds are being given puberty blockers by some doctors. (Fortunately many doctors don’t – and kiwi parents should find these doctors rather than be referred to

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Notes on COVID Vaccines in Young People

covidplanb.co.nz There have been reports of deaths in New Zealand teenagers within weeks of being administered with the Comirnaty product. It is concerning that there has been a concentration of unusual fatal events in teenagers in a short space of time, coinciding with the roll-out of the

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Ich Bin Ein Aucklander

When John Fitzgerald Kennedy was handed the speech which had been produced by his advisors, the one he was supposed to read to the colossal crowd gathered on the free side of the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963, he instead ripped it up and wrote his own. The fellow

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Update on COVID-19

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com It’s been eighteen months since New Zealand’s first Covid-19 lockdown was imposed on the country, so let’s look into what we have learnt. There have now been four major lockdowns, three caused by breaches of the Government-run border security system.

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Alzheimer’s Disease: Hyperbaric Oxygen Proposed as Treatment in New Study

Alzheimer’s Disease: Hyperbaric Oxygen Proposed as Treatment in New Study

Osman Shabir University of Sheffield Osman Shabir studys neurovascular function in neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease/vascular dementia & cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis). He uses preclinical models of human disease to study neurophysiology, neuropathology & neuroinflammation in these models to gain a better understanding of disease mechanisms

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Thank You for Liking

Thank You for Liking

One of the most damning indictments of the tobacco industry is that it for a long time it knew how harmful its products were – and lied about it. Which makes Facebook the New Big Tobacco. Because internal documents show that Facebook is well aware of how toxic its Instagram platform

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Collins’ Comments

Collins’ Comments

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz The long short sharp lockdown in Level 4 First I want to thank everyone in Auckland who is coping with another week in lockdown. Auckland is doing the hard yards to keep everyone else in New Zealand COVID-19 Delta free. This week

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The Great COVID Divide: Risk, Choice, and Rights

Graham J Noble libertynation.com Chief Political Correspondent & Satirist at LibertyNation.com. Raised and inspired by his father, a World War II veteran, Graham learned early in life how to laugh and be a gentleman. After attending college, he decided to join the British Army, where he served for

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Pharma Undermine Vaccine Confidence on Their Own

Pharma Undermine Vaccine Confidence on Their Own

Contrary to the smug media narrative, the main drag on uptake of Covid vaccines are not “anti-vaxxers”, but the “vaccine hesitant”. People who are entirely comfortable with existing, proven vaccines, from polio to tetanus to the annual flu vax, but concerned about the rush to market and novel mechanism

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Chaos Created by 90 Percent Target

David Seymour ACT Leader New Zealanders deserve to have clarity on what the vaccination target is and when we can get back to living our lives. When Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the target should be 90 per cent, he directly contradicted the COVID-19 Minister and the

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Lockdowns Double Attempted Suicides In 10-14 Year Old NZers

Lockdowns Double Attempted Suicides In 10-14 Year Old NZers

University of Auckland The study, published in the international Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, shows that attempted suicides in NZ children aged 10-14 years increased from a baseline of 40 per month to a peak of 90 per month following the lockdowns in 2020. Lead researchers Dr Gerhard

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Arden Quietly Mothballs Her ‘A Game’ Elimination Strategy

Arden Quietly Mothballs Her ‘A Game’ Elimination Strategy

Last year Jacinda Ardern promised the vaccine was our solution to the war on Covid-19, opening borders and ending lockdowns. Now that just about every other country is ahead of us in vaccine rollout, we can catch a glimpse of our future. Ardern et al gave us their “A

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Why Are We Still Figuring Out Hospital Visitation Policy?

It is hard to believe that, five months after Delta hit New Zealand arrived and after five weeks of lockdown, that the visitor policies of Auckland’s three district health boards are yet to be figured out, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. “This is another example of

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