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15 February marks the opening of “healex”, the newest natural health practice in Hillcrest, Hamilton, offering naturopathic consultations, herbal medicine, Bach Flower consultations and natural healing. Naturopathic treatment is intended to assist and stimulate the body’s own ability to heal itself. Naturopathy is both a system of natural medicine, and a way of life. Educating the client is a big part of the healing process.
The Ministry of Health welcomes the decision of the Nelson District Court in convicting James Michael Dawson on charges of advertising and offering chiropractic services he was not authorised to administer.
The new website for the Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is considered to be moving ahead strongly by initial results where almost 12,500 people have visited the website in the second half of 2010.
The New Zealand Ministry of Health warns New Zealand travellers that there has been an out break of legionellosis in Australian travellers returning from Bali.
Professor Roberto Mezzina leads the radical mental health services in Trieste, Italy. THis service has just been designated a centre for training and research in mental health by the World Health Organisation.
Services in Trieste rely far less on expensive acute beds, rarely treat people forcibly, do not use ECT, or restraint practices such as seclusion. The service is available to the population of Trieste 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. A report commissioned by the NZ based ARC Group suggests that as well as improving services, adopting some of the practices used in Trieste over the last 30 years, could carve off $100 million from the national mental health bill.
The latest study discusses a possible relationship between paracetamol use and the later development of asthma and allergy. However, there still appears to be no conclusive evidence of a link between paracetamol and asthma.
Andrew Bridgman (Acting Director General of Health), congratulates members of the 25 provider collectives who have been selected to move to the next stage of making the Government’s Whānau Ora programme a reality.
Health Minister Tony Ryall says more than 400 women with breast cancer have started the 12 month course of herceptin treatment, since this Government began fully funding the treatment, at the end of 2008.
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A West Melton six-year-old and her family are preparing to uproot their lives and move to Auckland or commute between Auckland and Christchurch so she can receive the ongoing dialysis treatment she needs to survive. To help the Collins family, fundraising dinners will take place at ja-basco Bar and Café over the next four weeks.
Figures released by McDonalds show the Weight Watchers Approved Meals have been a success, with over 100,000 being sold nationwide within three months.
In 2007, statistics show that lung cancer accounted for the majority of cancer deaths, followed by breast cancer and bowel cancer.
PHARMAC’s medical directory Dr Peter Moodie announces a new iodine-only table, that enables pregnant and breastfeeding woman to meet daily iodine requirements, is now available in New Zealand.
A smoking ban in New Zealand prisons is expected to take effect from 1 July 2011, preceded by a 12 month campaign to help prisoners quit smoking. The ban is expected to reduce health and safety risks to prisoners and staff.
A support service for former sawmill workers exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) is to be established by the Ministry of Health. PCP is a timber preservative used in the 1950s to 1980s.
Health Minister Tony Ryall has confirmed that Dunedin Hospital will receive a new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The Journal website is an online self-management programme for New Zealanders experiencing mild to moderate depression.
Funding for PET scans will increase, allowing double the number of cancer patients to be offered PET scans.
Auckland Zoo is going smokefree, coinciding with World Smokefree Day on Monday, 31 May 2010.
Leading UK-based dyslexia expert Neil MacKay is delivering a new workshop in Queenstown for parents and teachers.