Margaret Somerville mercatornet.com Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine (Sydney campus). She is also Samuel Gale Professor of Law Emerita, Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law Emerita
righttolife.org.uk Immediate skin-to-skin contact increases a premature baby’s chances of survival according to a new study. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, co-ordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), found that this method, known as ‘kangaroo mother care’ (KMC), has the potential to save the lives of 150,000
Tiger Tiger, a tenacious, surprisingly well-educated animal, living and working in the real world. Having to come up with staff wages every week sharpens the senses. As we are daily browbeaten by bobbing heads and flapping hands across New Zealand and Australia to mask up, get vaccinated, maintain social distancing
Someone suggested last week that my lack of medical degrees or appropriate academic credentials invalidates my opinion on Covid-19, ranking me behind the experts. An interesting observation. It is true that I am medically and scientifically unqualified to comment on Covid-19 but equally, I am entitled to hold an opinion.
It’s not that often we feature a video during the day but this is one that we think deserves a wider airing than our usual evening video slots. What we have here is a very powerful address that was given by Cool Change NZ co-founder Grace Curtis. Cool Change
Neil Miller taxpayers.org.nz Andrew Little is frustrated at the health system – again, that’s hardly news these days – but this time he has a very good point. Facing an incredibly hostile crowd of GPs at their conference, the Minister of Health said he was struggling to get his
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
By removing targets to diagnose and treat cancer Labour is taking its eye off a very deadly ball, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Rei says. “The last National Government made smart use of DHB performance data and introduced targets for key public health outcomes to make sure accountability was
righttolife.org.uk A recent article published by leading bioethics journal “The Hastings Center Report”, has proposed an implant that would automatically trigger a lethal drug at the onset of dementia. In the report, co-authors Margaret Battin and Brent M. Kious, proposed the introduction of an “advance directive implant” (ADI)
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On the AM show this week Sir David Skegg, chair of the Strategic Covid-19 Public Health Advisory Group on Covid-19 talked about a phased border reopening beginning next year, providing the government sees a successful vaccine take-up rate. The Strategic Advisory Group provides independent advice to “Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall,
There is one clear message from the release of the Skegg report – it is imperative we vaccinate as many as people as possible, as quickly as possible, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “New Zealand is the slowest in the OECD in rolling-out the COVID-19 vaccine, and ranked only
In today’s Australian, Adam Creighton argues that Covid Derangement Syndrome, or “Covid Dumb”, creates “a shocking decline in critical faculties among intelligent people when Covid-19 is being discussed”. CDS is endemic among the political and “intellectual” elites. “Its sufferers,” says Creighton astutely, “assert and do things that are patently
The Government continues to block transparency around its response to Covid-19, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Government members voted against a motion to recall Dr Ashley Bloomfield to Health Select Committee so he could explain his incorrect statements over the Covid-19 infected UN worker who was transported to
David Seymour ACT Leader The Skegg reports tells us the Government should reopen the border in stages, proportional to risk, using better technology, but we can’t yet due to low vaccination rates, and variants might undermine the vaccine. All of this was in ACT’s COVID 2.0 report
Eliora New Zealand clinicians are not removing testes, making men watch pictures of men, giving electric shocks to their penis or brain, telling a man he is mentally defective, ostracising, or hating men if they are homosexual. No one is tied up and thrown off a high building, at least
