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Study questions popular painkiller’s safety and effectiveness

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A commonly prescribed opioid painkiller long viewed as a safer option for chronic pain may offer only limited benefit while increasing the risk of...

Study finds rise in shingles risk after Covid boosters

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have identified an increase in shingles cases following Covid jabs, particularly after 'boosters'. Analysing electronic health...

Red Flag: 2023 NZ cancer data released by Health NZ – a record

Guy Hatchard -

Health NZ has released the data for new cancer registrations during 2023. Data by age, sex, cancer type and ethnicity from 2001 to 2023 is...

New VetNet-Biosecurity Network to strengthen NZ’s animal disease response

DTNZ Farming -

The Government has launched a new biosecurity veterinary network aimed at strengthening New Zealand’s ability to respond quickly to serious animal disease outbreaks, including...

Forgotten light therapy sparks fresh debate over medicine, sunlight and suppressed treatments

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A new Substack essay by 'A Midwestern Doctor' exmaines the role of sunlight, ultraviolet exposure and a long-abandoned medical therapy once used in US...

The five big lies of vaccinology

Clayton J. Baker -

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe...

Michigan man dies after contracting rabies from transplanted kidney

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A Michigan man has died after developing rabies transmitted through a donated kidney, in what US health officials have described as an exceptionally rare...

Ancient volcano may have triggered the Black Death by creating a medieval “perfect storm”

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A major volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off the chain of events that unleashed the Black Death across Europe, according to new...

Pharmac to fund five new treatments from December

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Pharmac will fund access to five new or improved treatments from December 2025, including medicines for breast and lung cancer, multiple sclerosis, and serious...

World faces huge surge in cancer deaths – study

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The toll may rise by 75% by 2050, research published by The Lancet has warned. The annual global cancer death toll is projected to climb...

Trump blows open autism debate

Maryanne Demasi -

Autism has long been the untouchable subject in American politics. For decades, federal agencies tiptoed around it, steering research toward genetics while carefully avoiding controversial...

The trouble with Type 1 diabetes

Averil Drake -

‘Oh look mum, it's diabetes on the table!’, a friend exclaimed, remembering her kids' response to a particularly sugar laden spread she served one...

U.S. vaccine panel admits alarming dangers of COVID mRNA jabs were hidden from the public

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A key U.S. vaccine advisory committee has, for the first time, openly acknowledged troubling risks and unanswered questions about mRNA COVID jabs in a...

The pandemic of fake psychiatric diagnoses

Peter C. Gotzsche -

On 12 September, UK child and adolescent psychiatrist Sami Timimi published “When mental-health diagnoses become brands, the real drivers of our psychic pain are...

The perverse nature of the medical profession

Gigi Foster -

The natural business model of an army is to fight enemies, so any large army will find enemies to justify its existence. Similarly, the natural...

Major Study: mRNA vaccines multiply the incidence of cancer

Guy Hatchard -

A large cohort study conducted in Italy and published in the Journal of Experimental and Clinical Sciences is entitled “COVID-19 vaccination, all-cause mortality, and...

New Mexico man tests positive for plague

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A 43-year-old man from Valencia County, New Mexico, has tested positive for the plague, prompting a warning from state health officials about the severe...

Oncologist blasts Big Pharma: “They are genocidal and they do not care”

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A leading U.S. oncologist has delivered a scathing indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, accusing major corporations of knowingly sacrificing lives for profit. Dr. Kathleen Ruddy,...

What happened? What went wrong? What will happen next? What should we do?

Guy Hatchard -

An article in the UK Guardian on 29th June is entitled “Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks...

New study links glyphosate to 14 cancer types even at “safe” doses

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A major new study published in June 2025 has found strong evidence that glyphosate—the widely used herbicide found in products like Roundup—causes cancer in...

U.S. doctors ‘baffled’ by 300+% rise in rare cancer among millennials and Gen X

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals a sharp rise in appendix cancer diagnoses among millennials and Generation X, with...

‘Mystery illness’ in DR Congo could be malaria – media

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The outbreak has killed at least 50 people, Reuters has reported. A disease outbreak in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has killed...

Cancer Control Agency criticised for overlooking blood cancer drug Benefits in NZ report

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealand’s Cancer Control Agency faces criticism for overlooking effective blood cancer drugs available free in Australia but unfunded in New Zealand. Consultant haematologist Dr....

German doctors warn of return to ‘pre-penicillin era’ amid antibiotic resistance crisis

Daily Telegraph NZ -

German doctors are raising alarms over the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, warning that the world may soon return to the pre-penicillin era. Experts, including...

Fauci recovering from ‘West Nile Virus’ after hospitalisation

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the prominent immunologist who led the US government's response to the Covid-19 'scamdemic', is recuperating at home after allegedly being hospitalised...

Scientists report potential ‘anti-aging’ breakthrough

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Therapy blocking a specific protein in the body has shown to increase lifespan and prevent cancer in mice. A team of scientists may have found...

Exploding the Spanish Flu myth

Daily Telegraph NZ -

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." —George Orwell, 1984 Type “Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918” into any...

Luxon vows to fund new cancer treatments despite budget constraints

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has reaffirmed the National Party's commitment to funding 13 new cancer treatments, despite no allocations in Budget 2024. Luxon assured legacy...

Bird flu ‘virus’ allegedly found in US retail milk

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The pathogen has been detected in 33 cattle herds in eight states, officials say. Particles of bird flu have been found in samples of consumer...

The cruelty of modern death

David Bell -

Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath...

Scientists make Alzheimer’s breakthrough

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A simple blood test could detect biological markers of the disease 15 years before symptoms develop, researchers say. Scientists have hailed a potentially ‘revolutionary’ breakthrough...

Poland probes outbreak of Legionnaires disease near Ukraine border

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Legionnaires disease has killed seven in the city that is key to supplying Kiev with weapons. Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) is investigating whether the...

Gut Feeling: Study shows link between anorexia and intestinal bacteria

Igor Kuznetsov -

People develop anorexia not only due to their psyche and obsessive thoughts about food or appearance that drive catastrophic weight loss mania, but their...

WHO issues monkeypox threat report

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The UN health body says monkeypox is not yet a ‘public health emergency of international concern’, like Covid-19 and polio. The World Health Organization has...

Researchers Discover Origin of the Black Death

Mary Manley -

For years, researchers have been attempting to trace the origin of the Black Death, a bubonic plague that spread across the world via Oriental...

Monkeypox to get rebranded, WHO says

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The UN health watchdog is also considering bumping the virus’ alert to the highest level possible. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with “partners...

The Monkey’s Out of the Bag

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Want to voice an opinion? Send us a ‘Letter to the Editor’ by email to editor@dailytelegraph.co.nz, including your name, or initials, or ‘Anonymous’, and...

Guy Hatchard: Exiting the pandemic or Evolving out of it?

Guy Hatchard -

An article in the UK Daily Telegraph last week illustrated a dilemma we all face. Scientists have admitted that the AstraZeneca vaccine increases the risk...

Spain sounds alarm over mysterious hepatitis in children

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Worldwide, some 650 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology have been reported, WHO figures show. Spain has registered 30 cases of acute hepatitis of...

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