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Salmon products recalled due to possible presence of Listeria

New Zealand Food Safety is supporting food company Matakana Smokehouse in its recall of a specific batch of two of its salmon products due...

AFT Pharmaceuticals concludes Maxigesic Rapid key manufacturing agreement

AFT Pharmaceuticals (NZX: AFT, ASX: AFP) has partnered with the US-based pharmaceutical manufacturer Microsize on a long-term supply agreement of micronized active pharmaceutical ingredients...

Guy Hatchard: Action to face the medical crisis can no longer be postponed

Government inquiries seldom change reality. Public submissions to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned are now closed and the Commissioners blandly note on...

Retired man’s battle with terminal cancer aided by Ivermectin use

Retired sawmill worker Rick Alderson faced a grim prognosis in November 2020 when diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, which quickly metastasised to his liver. Despite...

Woman denied heart transplant over COVID jab status

The affected woman named Irene, has a history of blood clots and heart issues, which are known side effects of the mRNA gene therapy. Despite...

Medical practice needs meaningful patient conversations if it is to improve outcomes

Recently a close friend who was taking statins developed muscle pain, digestive weakness and peripheral neuropathy (loss of sensation in hands and/or feet). They stopped...

Guy Hatchard: The world of drug regulation meets the biotech wunderkind

A large number of recent articles and studies raise crucial questions about the standards being applied to drug assessment and regulation. Are the regulators facilitating...

Global hunger isn’t the worst food-related threat to humanity

There are more obese people in the world than hungry ones – which may sound like a good thing, but it really isn’t. World Obesity...

The government, the media, and the health service have buried their heads in the sand and promised our health problems will go away

Today the government announced new health targets promising greatly shortened wait times and faster treatments, but incredibly failed to address why so many people...

‘Unsustainable’: Large Bay of Plenty medical centre to downsize

A medical clinic in Pāpāmoa, which provides services to 6,000 patients, is downsizing due to a critical shortage of GPs and insufficient government funding,...

Health sector concern over skilled worker exodus to Australia

Concern is growing in the health sector over the potential migration of New Zealand health workers to Australia, spurred by Queensland Health's 'Make a...

Argentinian man vasectomised by mistake after being checked in for gallbladder removal

The medical mix-up is irreversible, doctors reportedly told Jorge Base. An Argentinian man woke up in a hospital bed last week to discover that he...

Guy Hatchard: What is life?

In 1953, the same year that DNA was discovered, Mount Everest climbed and Queen Elizabeth crowned, a graduate student in Chicago passed an electrical...

The cruelty of modern death

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...

How did the medicines regulatory system fail us so badly?

An influential cross-party group of UK MPs have raised concerns that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) knew of serious cardiac side...

Top UK cardiologist calls for investigation into COVID jab injuries, numbers are the ‘tip of the iceberg’

Dr Dean Patterson is a leading consultant cardiologist in Guernsey and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Last week Patterson wrote to the CEO...

A challenge for Sarfati – Is medicated drinking water justified?

A judge has just sent the Director-General of the Ministry of Health Dr Diana Sarfati, back to the drawing board to work out whether...

Guy Hatchard: The need for a comprehensive health service audit

Two papers published this week present starkly contrasting views of the scientific process. Dr. John Gibson economist at the University of Waikato published “Cumulative excess...

Lake Alice abuse and torture survivors reject apology from RANZCP

Survivors of the abuse and torture at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s have rejected an apology from the Royal Australia New Zealand...

The black market in salt and what it means for all of us

I had a shock this weekend which has turned into a wake up call. For years I had been sprinkling Black Salt (Kala Namak) on...

Luxon delivers ‘State of the Nation’ speech

Luxon delivered the speech today in Auckland In his inaugural 'State of the Nation' speech, PM Christopher Luxon outlined a comprehensive plan he claims will...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Gardening for high health nutrition

Anyone can grow some food crops for their health without having to be a active gardener, in fact anyone can grow a range of...

Free breast screening extended

The coalition Government has made the first steps in delivering on its promise to extend free breast screening to women aged 70-74, Health Minister...

The Network of Denial and the Trail of Deceit in New Zealand

As you know we live in extraordinary times, of note not just because of our technological achievements, but also because of the pervading mood...

Chernobyl wolves have anti-cancer genome – study

Scientists hope the findings can help identify protective mutations and increase the odds for humans to survive the disease. Wolves in the irradiated Chernobyl Exclusion...

Psychiatric nurse dismissed following racial insult in workplace group chat

Vinod Chand, a psychiatric nurse at Te Whatu Ora’s Mason Clinic in Pt Chevalier since 2008, was dismissed for referring to a colleague as...

Guy Hatchard: Have we lost our minds?

It used to be the case that kindergarten children played at ‘connecting the dots’ to make drawings, these days this activity is considered to...

COVID Inquiry: Submissions now open for feedback on expanded terms of reference

The Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons Learned is seeking public feedback. 'We're expanding the COVID-19's inquiry terms of reference and we want to hear from...

Camembert and brie cheese products recalled due to E-coli

Certain camembert and brie varieties produced by Waimata Cheese Company are being pulled from the market because of potential E coli contamination, according to...

King Charles diagnosed with cancer

The disease was discovered as the monarch was examined for benign prostate enlargement, Buckingham Palace has revealed. In a statement, the Palace said the health...

Cancer cases set to soar by 77% – WHO

The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has projected a significant rise in global cancer cases, estimating over 35 million...

Woman suffers complications after unqualified assistant administers Botox on doctor’s orders

A woman experienced negative side effects after receiving Botox injections from an unqualified individual, directed by a doctor, according to a Health and Disability...

Medical centre’s oversight in urologist referral found to have caused patient’s death

A health centre has been directed to offer an apology to the relatives of a deceased man, whose death was attributed to prostate cancer...

COVID Royal Commission: Expanded terms of reference must include vaccine safety – NZ Outdoors & Freedoms Party

While it's good news that the new government has belatedly announced a wider inquiry into the Covid NZ response, it still falls short says...

When will it be called treason?

Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it. — Robert Kennedy On a warm day in the spring of...

Two health professionals disciplined for sexual misconduct

Two health professionals, an osteopath and a physiotherapist, were censured for separate incidents of indecently touching patients. Dr. Joseph Crozier, an osteopath from Morrinsville, was...

Scientists make Alzheimer’s breakthrough

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...

Guy Hatchard: A Time of uncertainty, but hope

Dear Friends I hope you have enjoyed a Christmas and New Years break. I am writing to distil the lessons of the past three years...

The WHO’s Managerial Gambit

On Friday, Bret Weinstein warned of impending tyranny from the World Health Organization. “We are in the middle of a coup,” the evolutionary biologist and...

‘NUTSAX’ licence plate: NZTA backs off

Auckland man Taylor Crawshaw has successfully defended his right to keep his personalised license plates, "NUTSAX," after the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) initially...

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