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Biotech company opens unit to breed pigs for human transplants
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:44:24 +1200
Biotech entrepreneur Living Cell Technologies (LCT) has opened its first dedicated quarantine pig farm to breed piglets to be slaughtered for tissue to be grafted into humans. The first $2.5 million unit will house 50 pigs - and...
Health alert on popular painkiller
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +1200
Use of New Zealand's most widely taken painkiller, paracetamol, is being reviewed because of concerns in the United States about side-effects that include liver damage. Three advisory committees have advised the US Food and Drug...
Southern workers enticed north to staff new Auckland labs
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +1200
Workers at sister laboratories of Auckland's new Labtests company have been asked to help out in its countdown to taking over the region's community pathology service. Labtests will progressively take over the taxpayer-funded community...
Labtests to operate 25 fewer blood collection centres
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +1200
Labtests has revealed the locations of its 56 collection centres, where patients' blood samples will be taken and other specimens will be collected. The new network has 25 fewer than the 81 collection centres now run by Diagnostic...
Are you concerned about health warnings for paracetamol?
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:17:28 +1200
Use of New Zealand's most widely taken painkiller, paracetamol, is being reviewed because of concerns in the United States about side-effects that include liver damage. Three advisory committees have advised the US Food and Drug...
Hawke's Bay swine flu sufferer still critical
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:23:48 +1200
A woman admitted to Hawke's Bay Hospital with swine flu a week ago remains in critical condition, while the condition of a Wellington woman has been downgraded from life-threatening to serious. A Hawke's Bay District Health Board...
Cancer treatment room not radiation-proof - report
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:39:52 +1200
A cancer treatment room is standing idle at Wellington's new hospital after being found to not be radiation-proof. The radioactive iodine room for thyroid cancer treatment is "not fit for purpose", according to Capital and Coast...
Swine flu adds to winter pressure
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:12 +1200
The number of patients seeking help from hospitals and GPs has spiked as swine flu compounds the usual winter peak of illness in the community. "We are now seeing an increased demand on some of our vital health services, given...
Drink campaign goes nationwide
newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:08 +1200
The head of New Zealand's National Addiction Centre, Professor Doug Sellman, will tour the country for three months in a campaign aimed at tightening controls on alcohol. Dr Sellman, 53, a psychiatrist who has been the centre's...

 
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New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society - Society of researchers and clinicians in the field of Orthopaedics from Australia and New Zealand.
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Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research - Promotes research in psychiatry, disseminates information on psychiatric research and facilitate the development of collaborative and inter-disciplinary research linkages.

Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society - A multidisciplinary group of medical specialists whose objectives are to promote the practice of head and neck oncology.

RANZCOG - The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
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South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society SPUMS - Promotes and facilitates information and research on all aspects of underwater and hyperbaric medicine.

The WWW Virtual Library - Public Health: Oceania - Annotated links providing web resources at both the continent and country levels.
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