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KiwiFM Audio: Wammo reports Kiwisaver is about to go live but where will our funds be invested? Nuclear energy? cluster bombs? cigarettes? Terry Creighton is the Director of Prometheus Ethical Finance and advises that if this is a concern, we need to start ... More >>
After much consideration papers will be filed today in relation to errors in law relating to approvals for field trials of GE Brassica. GE Free NZ (in food and environment) has decided that flawed decision making cannot go unscrutinised. More >>
AgResearch Chief Executive Dr Andrew West today announced the appointment of Dr Travis Glare as the Institute's new General Manager of Science Strategy. Dr Glare has been promoted from within AgResearch. He is currently Section Manager of Biocontrol, ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to the Prime Minister about carbon emissions, carbon neutral New Zealand businesses, and travel/export complexities... More >>
As the leaders of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in Germany hammered the final communiqué on climate change, half a world away, in the small Pacific island country of Tuvalu, Sialafaga Talua, a born and bred islander pondered her shaky future on the islands, ... More >>
Seven Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs) will receive new funding to produce world-class research that will help accelerate New Zealand’s economic transformation, Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen announced today. More >>
The Ministry for the Environment has taken three months to respond to questions raised about serious flaws in a scientific review that in the meantime has been used to justify ERMA approving a GE field-trial. More >>
A former Crop & Food GE scientist, Dr Elvira Dommisse, said today that proper scrutiny by ERMA of evidence would have prioritised the need for food studies over fund-wasting field trials. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to Malcolm Rands from Ecostore about the G.E testing approved for Crop & Food by ERMA. More >>
GE-Free NZ are seeking legal advice on a possible High Court challenge to ERMA's decision announced yesterday, to approve a 10-year trial of GE brassica. More >>
Today’s Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) decision approving a Crop and Food application to field trial brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and forage kale) genetically engineered with a toxin derived from the bacterium Bacillus ... More >>
The decision by ERMA to approve 10-years of field trials of GE brassica is a defeat for common sense and undermines the Authority's credibilty as a regulatory body. The decision excludes any consideration of "the future", effectively ring-fencing ... More >>
AUT Postgrad Bharat Jamnadas writes: Maori and Pacific community leaders and entertainers feature in a “diplomatic” protest to Japan over plans to hunt 50 humpback whales next summer. The message was clear at an anti-whaling rally in New Zealand on Saturday ... More >>
Audio: Greenpeace's climate change spokesperson Vanessa Atkinson talks to Wallace about the spoof on the Genesis Energy pukeko advert. Hmmm, did Wal have a hidden motive? ;-) More >>
Greenpeace said today it was time New Zealand energy companies like Genesis Energy stopped trying to brand themselves as caring and clean, when in reality they were increasing the threat of climate change. More >>
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the decision to fund a larger nine-week trial of Herceptin for women with early breast cancer is unethical and based on unsound research by Pharmac. More >>
AUT Institute of Public Policy's Dr Ian Hassall writes: Dr Robert Larzelere, who claims to be scientific in his support for smacking children makes outrageously unscientific allegations about changes in children's behaviour in Norway since that country introduced ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wammo serves up a complete audio feast! Paul Buchanan on the US War on Tourists - The Independent's Rob Beschizza on WiFi rays - and Nat Gerry Brownlee with politics and handyman hints! More >>
Right to Life deplores the decision of the Minister of Health the Hon Pete Hodgson to request the National Screening Unit to advise him on how to implement a national screening programme for Down syndrome. A programme for screening all pregnant women ... More >>
In the lead up to the cold and flu season, medical experts are welcoming the arrival in New Zealand of the first treatment clinically proven to reduce the chance of developing a full-blown cold, cut the severity and shorten the duration of cold symptoms . More >>
The NZ Drug detection Agency Ltd is delighted to announce a revolutionary analysis service that reveals someone’s history of alcohol abuse over many months, and then tracks their treatment. The service, developed by scientists in Britain and Germany, ... More >>
A website ranking of the top ten channels in Nielsen//NetRatings' Market Intelligence Technology category for all visitors' unique browsers (from New Zealand and overseas) for the week to 15 April 2007. More >>
Collaboration between the various players in New Zealand’s innovation system is at unparalleled levels of quality and quantity, says Anthony Scott, executive director of the Association of Crown Research Institutes. More >>
Living Cell Technologies Ltd (ASX:LCT) after rigorous international review has received authorization from the New Zealand regulator MedSafe to advance its program to conduct a Phase I/IIa clinical trial of its DiabeCell® diabetes product in New Zealand. More >>
This is the question which Steven Wise, an American legal scholar and activist who specialises in animal rights, will be asking in a public lecture at The University of Auckland early next month. More >>
As a gesture of goodwill this Easter, the Easter Bunny, helped by animal rights activists from the Open Rescue Collective, broke into a South Auckland battery hen farm and rescued 10 battery hens from their cages. More >>
KiwiFM's Wammo presents a feast of IVs. So sit back and listen to the Wammonator quiz Russell Brown on whether musos are being bled to death; Gerry Brownlee on giving your kid a crack; and an Aussie doctor who says we feed kids too much Ritalin. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman IVs the PM on the Section59 Bill where the PM highlights a very poor standard of reporting. Also why does the Govt want to restrict access to Births Deaths Marriages info? More >>
Opposition is mounting against a controversial bill that, if passed, will see official records of births, deaths, marriages locked away from public eyes – shifting this information out of reach of researchers, historians, many genealogists and others. More >>
Audio: Manning on Radio Adelaide discuss: A science experiment by two teenage girls saw GlaxoSmithKline being fined $227,500 for false advertising + Parliament's Speaker is writing to the Chinese embassy informing its must respect NZ's free speech ideals. More >>
The Green Party is calling on FSANZ to halt an application by Monsanto for approval of food derived from a genetically modified corn after it was revealed the company had earlier concealed test results showing another corn product caused illness in ... More >>
Pacific Genes and Life Patents: Book Launch; Rutherford House, Victoria University, Wellington. Pacific indigenous experiences and analysis of the commodification and ownership of life. Tariana Turia; Co-leader, Maori Party More >>
New Zealand's food regulators- FSANZ, must think again about the basis for their approvals of GE foods in the light of revelations that companies may have deliberately hidden data from officials. More >>
Aquaflow engages top US energy sector advisor and appoints chief technology officer More >>
Food Safety Minister Annette King should be congratulated for standing up for proper process and seeking a ministerial review of the recommendation by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to approve a genetically engineered corn for animal ... More >>
The Auckland Regional Council (ARC) today voted to oppose the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in field and food in the Auckland region. The Council does not, however, oppose creating GMOs in laboratories for medical purposes. More >>
New Zealand and Swedish neuroscientists have traced the pathway adult neural stem cells travel along to repair the human brain, opening up an exciting new field of research that could potentially lead to treatments for many brain disorders. More >>
Biosecurity New Zealand has voluntarily suspended export certification of bovine semen and embryos to the European Union (EU) in response to a draft audit of New Zealand’s certification system against EU requirements. More >>
Scoop's Selwyn Manning joins Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey to discuss: Labour's move to expel Taito Phillip Field from the party; and the New Zealand Government launches its sustainability policy platform. More >>
The Australian euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke held two two controversial workshops outlining how seriously ill people can take their own lives in Auckland on the weekend, with more to come in Wellington. He talks to Breakfast host Mikey ... More >>
An independent digest of widely-sourced information relevant to the GE debate More >>
The recommendation from Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to approve a genetically engineered High-Lysine Corn LY038 for animal and human use, is a warning sign that the Authority is inappropriately influenced by trade-related issues and ... More >>
New Zealand must re-focus its scientific programmes around non-GE plant and animal research to gain advances that will appeal to consumers, farmers and which are environmentally safe. More >>
Kiwi science and innovation has received a major international endorsement with the news of international venture capital backing for oncology drug discovery company Proacta, Economic Development Minister Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Should human gamete and embryo research take place in New Zealand, and if so, under what conditions? More >>
The New Zealand public have a right to be annoyed at the extent to which they are being misled by scaremongering predictions of catastrophic climate change, according to Dr Augie Auer, chair of the scientific panel of the New Zealand Climate Science ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Winston Peters has said too many Kiwis are anti-American. Is he correct? Also, the climate change debate heats up; and what's up with Waitangi Day 2007? More >>
A trial of a new treatment to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in women has been stopped prematurely because of a higher number of infections among those taking the microbicide cellulose sulfate compared with the placebo group, according to United Nations agencies ... More >>
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Director-General Murray Sherwin today released the final report by David Oughton into the circumstances associated with the imports of genetically modified corn seeds in late 2006. More >>
Dr Marie Bismark, a medico-legal expert with national law firm Buddle Findlay, has been appointed to Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council. The Bioethics Council’s role is to engage New Zealander’s in dialogue on the cultural, ethical and spiritual ... More >>
A product made from natural neonatal pig islet cells encased in capsules is to offer new hope to people with type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes. In a world first, Australian-listed company, Living Cell Technologies (LCT), is poised to start a Phase I/IIa trial for ... More >>
The Green Party is calling on the Government to reject the New Zealand Food Safety Authority's advice that there need be no specific regulation or labelling of cloned food. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Japan's been caught slaughtering whales in the Ross Sea. Also, Nat leader John Key is schmoozing Maori. Will the Maori Party find a friend in him? Selwyn Manning talks to Wallace Chapman about what lies behind these two issues. More >>
Scoop Video: A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion undertaking surveillance against illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean has sighted Japanese whaling vessels operating in the Ross Sea, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said Friday. The Orion has taken ... More >>
A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion undertaking surveillance against illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean has sighted Japanese whaling vessels operating in the Ross Sea, Conservation Minister Chris Carter said today. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wammo and Karli Thomas on board the Esperanza - Recorded today on board the Greenpeace ship the Esperanza. An interview with expedition leader Karli Thomas. More >>
January 23th 2007: The Icelandic government's claims of sustainable whaling were harpooned today, after Greenpeace revealed that around 200 tonnes of meat and blubber from endangered fin whales are still in storage, waiting to be tested for chemical ... More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the fact that three independent reviews have confirmed the existence of errors in the original study into dioxin poisoning in New Plymouth, and that the research evidence confirms local residents were subjected to very high ... More >>
The moral basis for The Labour Party's backing of "Terminator" technology is called into question by moves by Syngenta to register a patent on "Terminator" potatoes internationally. More >>
New Zealand’s Dairy and Meat industries should position their products as “clone-free” to secure their premium-quality image and maintain a point of difference in the world market should US authorities approve cloned products. More >>
New Zealand's Dairy and Meat industries should position their products as "clone-free" to secure their premium-quality image and maintain a point of difference in the world market should US authorities approve cloned products. More >>
Greenpeace is misleading the public with claims that 70 percent of Japanese don't support whaling, the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) said today. More >>
Some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories engaged in research often with potential to be used for germ warfare have refused to disclose their operations to the public as required by Federal rules, a nonprofit watchdog agency has charged. More >>
"Australia's CSIRO Scientists need and should look for reputable international scientific colleagues in their community, to help them both expose and counter the intimidation, bullying, and destruction of their reports and the silencing that's become so commonplace ... More >>
Margaret Chan, a Chinese doctor who played a key role in United Nations efforts to prevent bird flu from mutating into a deadly human pandemic, took office today as head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), vowing to improve the health of Africans ... More >>
Right to Life is pleased with the judgement of the High Court, it is a victory for women and their unborn children, and they now have the right to be heard. The High Court has rejected the applications of the Crown to have the Court declare that the ... More >>
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition scientists have come to the defence of their colleague, Professor Augie Auer, former chief meteorologist of MetService, in response to criticisms posted on Scoop by the present management of MetService. More >>
In violation of the U.S. Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2-billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic ... More >>
Greenpeace today congratulated the New Zealand Government for leading a 27-country protest to the Japanese Government over its upcoming Antarctic whaling plans. More >>
Members of the public are invited to make submissions on the use of gametes and human embryos in reproductive research to the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART), who will be providing the Minister of Health with an advisory ... More >>
New Zealand has led the largest single diplomatic protest yet against Japan's lethal scientific whaling programme in the Antarctic, Conservation Minister Chris Carter announced today. More >>
MEDIA RELEASE 04 December 2006 Bioethics Council welcomes new members Toi te Taiao– the Bioethics Council has welcomed four new members at its December meeting in Wellington. Joining the Council are Rosemary Du Plessis, Dr Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop, Dr Marie ... More >>
New Zealanders’ views on allowing human gamete and embryo research and, if so, the conditions which should apply, are being sought by the Government’s advisory committee on assisted reproductive technology. More >>
ERMA is working hard to prevent a legal loophole resulting in hundreds of public submissions against GE field trials becoming invalid. More >>
An independent inquiry into the Ministry of Agriculture's management of maize and sweet corn seed imports has been welcomed by Biosecurity Minister Jim Anderton. The inquiry has been initiated following the discovery of genetically modified sweet ... More >>
Proposed GE vegetable trials are "off strategy" for New Zealand and claims by Crop and Food that their research is of national benefit are ill-founded. 70% of New Zealanders would almost certainly lose out if these particular crops were released. More >>
The Life Sciences Network has written to ERMA in support of Crop and Food’s application to field trial genetically modified brassicas in the Lincoln area confirmed Dr William Rolleston, Chairman of the Life Sciences Network today. More >>
Yesterday I went through one of those experiences that will probably stay with me for a long time. I was deposed by Ronald Green, founder of Epstein, Becker & Green, one of the most famous employment law firms in the country. Mr. Green is the defense ... More >>
December 11, 2006: Greenpeace is calling for stronger action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the wake of today's release of three major Government reports. More >>
National’s Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern, says the latest GE corn incident shows the Minister has done nothing to improve border control since the Auditor General’s highly critical report in May this year. More >>
On Thursday, November 30, Pfizer’s executives conducted a well rehearsed dog-and-pony show over at Pfizer’s research facilities in Groton, CT. All interest was focused on torcetrapib; the most important new drug in Pfizer's pipeline, which boosts good ... More >>
Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 3 December 2006 Clean Green NZ doesn't need dirty sweet corn. Following the latest GE seed border incursion, the Soil and Health Association of New Zealand is once ... More >>
“MAF should identify if GM is present, the type of GM construct and undertake a risk assessment before ripping up imported corn suspected of containing genetically modified seeds.” the chairman of the Life Sciences Network, Dr William Rolleston, ... More >>
More than 100 academics from 10 countries have agreed to become Advisers to the new Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics – launched online on Monday 27 November - at www.oxfordanimalethics.com - which aims to put animals on the intellectual agenda. More >>
A project aimed at restoring a wild kiwi population in Hawke’s Bay last night celebrated a major milestone, with the recovery of the project’s first ever second generation kiwi chick from the wild. More >>
Throughout the debate surrounding the controversial MeNZB vaccine, Chiron (now called Novartis Vaccines) has remained strangely silent. On 14 November 2006 they broke that silence in a press release to criticize MeNZB vaccine researchers Ron Law and ... More >>
Most abstinence-until-marriage education programs -- which receive about $158 million annually from the Department of Health and Human Services -- are not reviewed for scientific accuracy before they are granted funding, according to a report by the ... More >>
GE Free NZ (in food and environment) believes that overseas investors may benefit more than New Zealanders from GE field trials and believes ERMA should pay community groups for making submissions on the application to field-test Bt Brassicas (cabbage, ... More >>
A senior lecturer in veterinary neurophysiology at Massey University has been selected as the recipient of the 2006 National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) Three Rs Award. More >>
Scientific reports are surfacing that question whether enriched uranium particles were found in a crater in Lebanon. Was a low yield nuke tested during the Israel/Hizbullah conflict? Has Israel the expertise to develop such weaponry without superpower help? More >>
Professor Ted Baker has been awarded the Rutherford Medal, the highest honour for scientists conferred by the Royal Society of New Zealand. More >>
Minister of Agriculture, Jim Anderton said today at the national Animal Ethics Committee workshop that animals are a vital part of our economy and a formative part of our history. More >>
ERMA New Zealand has received an application to import two insects to control the weed Californian thistle. More >>
NZBio congratulates all entrants in the 2006 NZBio Secondary School Student’s Essay Competition. “The essays demonstrated an excellent level of insight and consideration in answering the question: ‘Will xenotransplantation solve the organ donor shortfall? ... More >>
Forest & Bird General Manager Mike Britton says Forest & Bird has enjoyed a constructive working relationship with Al Morrison during his time as acting Director General and expects he will prove to be a staunch advocate for conservation in his ... More >>
The Green Party has questioned the strength of the Government's commitment to halting Japan's annual whale slaughter after it announced the setting up of a trade working group between the two countries - just one day before the whaling fleet leaves port. More >>
AgResearch has no intentions of selling meat or milk products from cloned animals into the food chain either now or in the future. “It is important that the media and the public are aware of this,” said AgResearch Science General Manager Dr Jimmy ... More >>
The Green Party is alarmed to discover there are no regulatory controls on the production and use of cloned animals, and that there are plans that could allow them to be sneaked into the food chain. More >>
The article posted today on your site, Chiron Dumps MeNZB Vaccine Trailled in NZ , fails to include information made public in an August 8, 2006 press release by Novartis, which acquired Chiron in April 2006. The press release, which is posted ... More >>
Save Animals From Exploitation (SAFE) has just launched a new website for their pig farming campaign: http://www.lovepigs.org.nz More >>
If you had something to hide, how would you go about it? Spend $1/4 million on half page ads in every news paper in NZ to distract the populace from the coming storm? More >>
In a stunning vote of no-confidence in the MeNZB vaccine technology, Chiron (now called Novartis Vaccines) has announced the launch of clinical trials for a genetically engineered vaccine to fight meningococcal B disease. More >>
The Ministry of Health welcomes a planned independent Norwegian review which it hopes will provide a greater degree of reassurance to the public in Norway and in New Zealand. More >>
Australasia’s peak medical diagnostic body, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA), has yet to receive a satisfactory response from the Minster of Health, the Hon Pete Hodgson, following their meeting in October. At the meeting, ... More >>
The latest figures released by the Ministry of Health today confirm that the MeNZB vaccine used, in what the new Chief of Bioethics at UNESCO described as an unethical experiment on hundreds of thousands of children, continues to have a melo-dramatic ... More >>
It’s time that the Government stopped talking about climate warming in New Zealand, and acknowledged the fact that temperatures in this country have been dropping since the El Nino high of 1998. More >>
Good health and environmental well-being go hand in hand. Energy efficiency through good design and extra insulation means lower power bills, better health and reduced emissions of greenhouse gases. More >>
The Labour-led government has taken a major step forward in addressing New Zealand's low rate of organ donation with the introduction of the Human Tissue Bill in Parliament today, Health Minister Pete Hodgson said. More >>
The Ministry of Health has slandered three Norwegian pro-vaccine professors of medicine, including the newly appointed UNESCO Bioethics Chief, Professor Jan Helge Solbakk. More >>
The Ministry of Health, health professionals and health groups are concerned about the impact that this Norwegian television documentary, which is dominated by long-standing critics of New Zealand’s Meningococcal B Immunisation Programme, will have here. More >>
Video: Immunisation Advisory Centre doctors have slammed a Norwegian doco that portrays the MeNZB vaccine as unproven and unsafe. Dr Nikki Turner says the doco is dishonest. Why is the health profession so concerned about a foreign documentary? Scoop reports… More >>
The use of 1080 in pest control is crucial for the future of both agriculture and the environment, Forest & Bird and Federated Farmers say. More >>
The Prime Minister sustained a barrage of questions on Monday on sustainability and other ecologically associated issues. The question and answer part of the post cabinet tete-a-tete between the PM and the media appeared to exist in an alternate universe. More >>
Crop & Food’s intended GE Brassica field trial is even crazier than their existing GE onion trial, according to Soil & Health, and move in the opposite direction to the Prime Ministers sustainability vision. More >>
GE Free NZ believes the application submitted by Crop and Food to ERMA for a field trial on GM cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli should be withdrawn, or stopped by the New Zealand government. More >>
An application to field test genetically engineered broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and forage kale must not proceed, the Green Party says. More >>
ERMA New Zealand has received the first application in three years to field test a GM crop. More >>
TVNZ has bought the Norwegian meningococcal vaccine documentary, "THE VACCINE EXPERIMENT - In The Service of Good." This documentary exposes serious concerns about the safety and effectiveness of New Zealand's MeNZB parent vaccine. More >>
Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said she was shocked and saddened the Minister of Health, Pete Hodgson, refused to apologise today to Paritutu residents affected by dioxin contamination from the manufacture and spraying of 245T. More >>
The Ministry of Health and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research reinforced their confidence in both the science and the peer review undertaken by internationally renowned scientists of the Paritutu serum dioxin study. More >>
Medsafe, the unit of the Ministry of Health responsible for assessing and approving medicines and vaccines, has no concerns about the quality of the vaccine used in New Zealand's Meningococcal B Immunisation programme. More >>
When I got up on Monday I didn't expect to spend most of the week writing about breast cancer and Herceptin, but this story, which appeared yesterday in the Guardian, cannot go unremarked... More >>
French and Norwegian officials have condemned a meningococcal vaccine, injected into countless New Zealand children. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has been criticized by Norwegian and French pharmaceutical controls for their production of ... More >>
Rice Row Prompts Call To Ombudsman Inconsistencies in the way food authorities have responded to contamination of US-grown long-grain rice by an illegal GE varient has prompted a call for the Ombudsman to become involved. While New Zealand authorities ... More >>
Speeding up the development of safer, more efficient medicines is the aim of a new entrant to New Zealand's biotech scene, announced today (Tuesday October 17). More >>
People around the world are being bombarded with reports of potentially disastrous effects of man-made global warming, said internationally famous botanist and environmental campaigner, Professor David Bellamy, in announcing in England that he has joined ... More >>
The Sustainable Business Network is a forum for businesses that are interested in sustainable development practice to get together and make it happen. This short doco (duration: 8 mins) asks people in the street what they think of sustainability... More >>
The winners of the Westpac National Sustainable Business Awards have been revealed at a gala dinner in Auckland. More >>
Biosecurity New Zealand has completed its first survey of commercial broiler and layer farms throughout the country and found no highly pathogenic avian influenza. More >>
Nancy Scheper-Hughes opens her provocative essay entitled "Biopiracy and the Global Quest for Human Organs," with a scene taken from Stephen Frears' film "Dirty Pretty Things." Okwe, an illegal Nigerian immigrant doctor, framed in his homeland and forced ... More >>
Scientist Dr Jim Sprott OBE is criticising the University of Auckland for failing to prevent biased cot death research being submitted for publication. Earlier this month Dr Sprott received from the University of Auckland under Official Information ... More >>
Barcelona, Manila, Mexico City October 3rd: Greenpeace activists today created giant crop circles in maize fields on three different continents (1) to mark the beginning of a global campaign to protect maize – one of the world’s most important staple ... More >>
The Cancer Society of New Zealand and New World supermarkets have launched LiveSmart, an initiative aimed at helping decrease the rates of cancer in New Zealanders. More >>
A growth hormone that enhances the lives of children with Prader-Willi syndrome is now fully funded. More >>
The public is urged to keep talking about the implications of using human embryos for research, after a public seminar in Wellington raised a wide range of opinions on the matter. More >>
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is being irresponsible promoting DDT, a harmful pesticide, according to the Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa and Safe Food Campaign. The two groups are urging the New Zealand Government to make representations to WHO ... More >>
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