Press Release – Ministry of Health

Pharmacist imprisoned on Medicines Act charges

A 32-year-old Auckland pharmacist been sentenced to four months and two weeks in prison for a series of breaches of the Medicines Act 1981 related to sales of unapproved prescription medicines. Read more »

Press Release – Te Roopu Taurima O Manukau Trust

Media Article – Sunday Star Times

There has recently been a feature article published about Te Roopu Taurima O Manukau Trust by Fairfax Media, which may also be picked up by local radio stations and TV networks. Read more »

Press Release – Coeliac New Zealand

Media Release

23 May 2013

GLUTEN FREE MORE THAN A DIET FAD FOR THE UNDIAGNOSED Read more »

Press Release – Waitemata District Health Board

23 May 2013
Waitemata Residents Among the Healthiest In New Zealand

People living in the Waitemata district are among the healthiest in the country, a new report has found. Read more »

Press Release – Hapai Te Hauora Tapui

Whānau to Lead Change On Alcohol Policy In Auckland

Whānau and Māori communities are leading change to address alcohol harm in Auckland starting with an alcohol policy forum on Thursday 23rd May 2013. Read more »

Press Release – Fluoride Action Network

Ex Dental Association President to front Fluoridation Tribunal
 
Dr Andrew Harms, former president of the South Australian branch of the Australian Dental Association will be joining New Zealand doctors and dentists in a bid to inform Hamilton councillors of the need to stop adding harmful fluoride chemicals to the community water supply. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
An animation to raise awareness about the issue of child poverty in NZ, and the need for food in schools programmes, has just been released by an educational research project at The University of Auckland. Read more »

Press Release – Cancer Society Auckland
Cancer Society Auckland undertook a survey of 4 local communities in South Auckland to gauge public support for Smokefree.  “This is the first localised survey of its kind undertaken in the Auckland area to provide local views on Smokefree”, says John Loof, CEO Cancer Society Auckland Northland.  Read more »

Press Release – Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Auckland is in desperate need of a structured trauma system, delegates to the 82nd Annual Scientific Congress (ASC) of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons have been told. A study conducted by the Paediatric Trauma Service at Starship Children’s Hospital (SCH) has highlighted significant delays in severely injured children arriving at the hospital, a centre of definitive care. Read more »

Press Release – DVD
Members of the Domestic Violence and Disability group, meeting in Auckland yesterday, expressed their disgust at reports that complaints made over a twelve year period by disabled people living at Parklands residential facility did not appear to have been taken seriously. Read more »

Press Release – Sophie Elliott Foundation
The Sophie Elliott Foundation will be launching a pilot of a healthy relationship programme, Loves Me Not, in nine secondary schools around New Zealand from May this year. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government
The Government’s fight to reduce New Zealand’s high rate of rheumatic fever among children will receive an additional $21.3 million over four years in Budget 2013, Health Minister Tony Ryall and Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia announced today. Read more »

Press Release – Health Research Council
Research into New Zealand’s worrying brain injury epidemic has been given a boost with three scientists awarded grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) to help improve the prognosis of Kiwis with brain injuries.  Read more »

Press Release – Huntingtons Disease Association
New Zealand’s foremost Huntington’s Disease (HD) research and clinical experts will speak at the national association’s conference in Auckland on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May. Read more »

Press Release – Fight Girls
On the 18 May, 24 women will enter the fighting ring for the first time. These women are wives, mothers and employees, who for the past 12 weeks have juggled their busy schedules to fit in 4 – 5 training sessions a week all provided for free of charge by the coaches at Dynamic Martial Arts. Read more »

Press Release – Starship Foundation
Starship is celebrating its 21st birthday this year and to mark the occasion Specforce Fitness is conducting a 21 Hour Circuit-athon to fundraise for the Starship Foundation. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Regional Public Health Service
The international World Smokefree Day is coming up. It is an annual event, created by the World Health Organisation in 1987, fully endorsed by our Government, and part of working towards the national goal of a Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025. Read more »

Press Release – Life Education Trust
Prime Minister John Key is about to learn the complexity of his body and what he needs to do to look after it and remain healthy. Read more »

Press Release – Waitemata District Health Board
The co-location of Waitemata District Health Board Services to Waipareira’s Whanau Centre shows how government and non-government agencies can work together to do what’s best for the community. Read more »

Press Release – St John Youth
Eden Park was packed last Saturday as St John Cadets battled it out to find the best in the country at the St John National Youth Festival and Competitions. Read more »