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<description><![CDATA[Hulk Hogan, one of the biggest names in professional wrestling, has been appointed an official "Mo" Mentor for this year's Movember. The moustache-growing charity event is held each November to raise funds for and awareness of...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Fergus Freeman used to be forced to spend time in hospital when his chronic heart problems flared up.But thanks to a New Zealand first in mobile phone technology, the former Otahuhu police inspector can send doctors and nurses...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Pneumonia is the single biggest killer of children in the world. Although deaths are rare here in New Zealand, our children have rates of pneumonia hospitalisation five times greater than the United States and other developed countries,...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The scariest part of the long-term fiscal projections the Treasury released last week is the discussion of health-care costs.The problem of babyboomers' superannuation is a doddle by comparison.This year we will spend about...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Two years ago Elizabeth Hoeta was so embarrassed by her size she stayed in her van during an important hui at Tahuna Marae.That was when the 43-year-old Waiuku woman weighed close on 200kg. With a history of heart disease and...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The reality of round-the-clock emergency care at the local hospital is at last within sight for Waitakere patients, after the release of an official count-down plan.After cutting hours at the hospital's emergency care centre in...]]></description>
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<title>Bewildering bureaucracy has to go, says health boss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Lester Levy took over public health services for 530,000 Aucklanders in June, he immediately visited the hot spot of North Shore Hospital's troubles.Ongoing publicity about the misery of long waits in the emergency care centre...]]></description>
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<title>Malcolm Rands:  What&#x27;s good for the climate is also good for our health</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Conversations about climate change and emissions levels are taking place all over the country by people of all age groups.However, from where I sit, the biggest gap is the lack of discussion around the bigger issue - that the...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh Wilson already owns three mobiles at the tender age of eight placing him in the firing line, according to new research which indicates phones do increase the risk of brain cancer.But neither Josh, nor his parents, are too...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[It was, perhaps, Phil Goff's first Triumph in quite some time.A thousand bikers roared their disapproval at proposed ACC levy hikes yesterday - along with Labour leader Phil Goff on a brand-new motorbike he had bought shortly...]]></description>
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