Lynne St Clair-Chapman – 05/05/2010 Tuesday 20 April, 2010 It’s sucking the life out of us Fourteen New Zealanders, including two Maori, will die today. The same number will die tomorrow and the day after that and every other day .. all year round. They won’t die in road accidents. They won’t die of old…
Peter Poortman – 12/03/09 New Zealand’s land and waters are home to over 3,000 different species of molluscs (soft bodied animals). Because of this country’s long isolation from other land masses, about 80% of these species are found nowhere else in the world. Most of these animals are very small and unlikely to be noticed,…
Health Freedom – 04/04/08 Medsafe recommends New Zealanders keep taking Merck’s best-selling Singulair allergy and asthma drug (Saturday’s Herald) even though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it was reviewing a growing number of reports involving suicidal behaviour and suicide in patients who have taken the drug. Health Freedom questions the agenda of…
Karine Thomas – 22/11/07 Oceanic Discoverer, New Zealand’s premiere expedition-style luxury cruise series, has announced the 07/08 season’s list of guest lecturers, led by a distinguished Pacifica expert, a naturalist guide, and a leading conservation advocate. Guests can choose between 5-night (Auckland/Paihia) and 12-night (Auckland/Milford Sound) cruises from December to March ’08. To help you…
Reprinted from the University of Canterbury’s “Chronicle” – 18/02/05 Gigantic eagles swooping from the skies to rescue Frodo and Sam in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy may not be just the stuff of legends and fairytales, according to research published this week in the journal PloS Biology. Dr Richard Holdaway with a moa…
Margaret – 16/07/04 I have been a close friend of an anorexia/bulimia sufferer for many years and as a person who really enjoys eating a healthy diet I found it difficult to understand how she felt and why a slim person could be so preoccupied with dieting. I wish I had then read “The Silent…
Gillian McDonald – 21/05/04 For the first time in New Zealand a tourism venture, Kiwi Encounter, will enable visitors to Rotorua to see kiwi “conservation in action” and at the same time support a facility dedicated to increasing the numbers of kiwi chicks raised for release in the wild. To add to the excitement, and…
Dorothy – 23/12/03 In the early years of the settlement of Christchurch the land was swampy and it was an unhealthy place to live. The Christchurch Drainage Board (CDB) was set up to manage the drainage of the city. Serious floods made life in the winter hazardous for those living in the low lying parts…
Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy (Retired)* – 20/08/03 Address on Anzac Day, 25 April 2003, St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington Part 2 Raising the Alarm The alarm may at last have been raised. In the 2 April edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Brian Vastag wrote that, although the US government…
An interview with Dr Neil Cherry Dorothy – 24/12/02 Dr Neil Cherry A major review on the health effects of electromagnetic fields on workers and residents has been produced by the California State Public Health Department and represents nine years of research. It was made public in 2002. This report cost about US$7M. The research…
