Why is it, I wonder, that we as Kiwis keep letting businesses reduce their service, but we still stay with them? We are all familiar with our favourite chocolate bars being reduced in size without the price being reduced, but I have noticed an increasing trend when it comes to
Where Australia leads New Zealand often follows, so you can expect this latest story to impact us Kiwis in the not too distant future. Residents have been left outraged over a Perth council’s plans to launch a new policy aimed at reducing the amount of unhealthy food being sold
Is it hard to simulate insanity? Brave journalist Nellie Bly was the first who proved it is not. And the conditions in an asylum for mentally ill shocked her. Nellie Bly was a pioneer of investigative journalism. She was born in 1864 and, unlike other women, wanted to have a
Open and transparent as usual, the government has quietly called for a review of our drug laws. Derek Cheng from ‘A newspaper’ reports. The Government has quietly ordered a review of its 44-year-old drug law, which will anchor its health-based response to drug use and form part
Before the red blooded meat eating, beer and whiskey brigade have conniptions about my choice of website for this disclosure, let me assure you that good vegan food is very appealing and healthy despite the well-bandied-unhealthy-vegan-walking-advertisements for why you should not go there. And just
I thought Julie-Anne Genter was Associate Transport Minister, but it seems she is Associate Health Minister as well. When you think about the Department of Health, you tend to think about overworked doctors, overworked nurses, waiting lists, sewage in the walls (that turned out to be non-existent), cancer
Health Minister David Clark has been accused of hiding the state of DHB deficits, after he held off the release the latest financial reports. The year-to-March DHB financial results showed a deficit of $264 million across the 20 DHBs. All, bar one, are now in deficit – and now
Sounds like patient abuse to me. Denying sick people a healthy balanced diet for environmental reasons is wrong on so many levels.
Dr Lance O’Sullivan is a doctor from Kaitaia, Northland. He is also an author, public speaker and public health advocate. Recently he explained why he supports Oranga Tamariki’s policy of uplifting children. His view is in complete contrast to Rihi Te Nana and others who think that the
David Clark, the Minister of Health, has come under fire this week for his poor performance. “Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Ian Powell accused Health Minister Dr David Clark of a “rambling, confused or nonsensical” leadership. Powell, a veteran of the senior doctors’ union of 30 years who
Which kills more New Zealanders every year, guns or cancer? Okay, so it was a trick question because firearms don’t kill people: people holding the firearms kill people. The data showed that more than 9500 people died from cancer each year, representing 31 per cent of all deaths recorded
A close friend was diagnosed some years ago with HER2 positive breast cancer which has a high risk of recurrence. At the time, Herceptin was not government-funded, but without it, her probability of survival dropped dramatically. Unsurprisingly, she added a mortgage and fundraised most of the $130K for the
Imagine the outcry if men had to make appointments to see two different doctors and lie to them about an impending mental breakdown in order to make their own reproductive choices. What an interesting statement from the pro-abortion opinion writer, fortunately hidden behind A Newspaper paywall. Apparently it is
National party In a move that contradicts the government’s “wellbeing” approach, mental health nurses have been axed from Counties Manukau Police Station. The ‘watch-house nurse pilot initiative’ was launched in 2008. It placed mental health nurses in the Counties Manukau police watch house. Following its success, the pilot
Today’s face of the day Planned Parenthood CEO & President Leana Wen had her employment terminated by her employer because she refused to say that men can get pregnant! because of “philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.” She was in the position for less than
There is a bloody good reason why we have plastic straws rather than paper straws, but the current ban on plastic straws (AKA turtle snorkels) has led to a situation where an aberration of common sense such as a metal straw has come into existence. When crimes against common sense
