Kokho Jason Sit Senior lecturer in Marketing; Associate Head (Global) University of Portsmouth Life today is stressful. Since the start of the pandemic, social media has been flooded with coping mechanisms and wellbeing trends to help people manage their emotions and worries about the state of the world. If you’
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
familyfirst.org.nz The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. “In our study, the level of life satisfaction in
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Recent Herald articles detail a number of medical ‘incidents’ relating to rugby players. The articles are somewhat confusing and lacking in medical detail but there have been enough reported to be concerned about and for us to have questions. At least
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com Dear Friends, Supporters and Valued Customers, I
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We owe much to our ready access to affordable and reliable energy: it is closely correlated with increases in population, GDP per capita and life expectancy. But we have been putting all this at risk with a focus on sustainability which, while in itself is
Rachel Smalley Journalist and Broadcaster The Common Room This article was first published by The Common Room The Medicine Gap is a storytelling platform and at its heart is social justice – I write stories about everyday New Zealanders who are ill and need access to modern medicines that we don’
Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com There are increasing numbers of people who know and understand that what has happened these past three years, and what continues to happen, is wrong and unethical, criminal even. This includes people in positions of power and influence with the ability
Ian Powell Health Systems Commentator and Blogger commonroomnz.com This article was first published on The Common Room On 9 February 2023, TVNZ’s 1News revealed some data that should alarm us all: that our hospitals had hit 100% occupancy more than 600 times in 2022. That is, on average,
Jon Queally Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams. commondreams.org Despite years of protest and warnings from environmentalists, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday approved a plan by Japan to release tens of millions of gallons of water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into
Stella Paul Stella Paul is the pen name of a writer in New York who has covered medical issues for over a decade. In 2021, she lost her husband in a locked down nursing home in New York City where he had been brutally isolated for almost a year. He
kffhealthnews.org Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health evaluated births between April and December 2022 and linked the passing of Texas’ restrictive anti-abortion law to 9,799 additional live births. Other reproductive health news is reported from North Carolina, Iowa and elsewhere. Houston Chronicle: Nearly
Every time a government wants to pass state-sanctioned suicide laws, we’re treated to the same oily palaver that there’s no ‘slippery slope’. Except that, every time, there is. In fact, the latest jurisdiction to attempt to push through “Voluntary Assisted Dying” (suicide, to put it bluntly), the
Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
I recently reported how a scientist who spent 100 days in an underwater habitat came out of the experience “10 years younger”. That is, certain biological changes, particularly in his chromosomes, effectively reversed his biological clock. But, if living under the sea might extend your life, living in space may
