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Wellington, Feb 8 NZPA - More than half of Wellingtonians think the city's 'Golden Mile' central shopping area should be smokefree, recent research suggests.
Women's health, well being and fashion will be celebrated at the Fresh Choice Women's Bike Run Tri at Lake Hayes on March 5 when teams and individual athletes from around the South Island gather to compete in the popular annual exclusively female event.
Wellington, Feb 7 NZPA - The Government is paying for its decision to cut funds for sexual health programmes, now having to find more money for treatments, Labour says.
The NZIC is aware that there is some confusion by the public over homeopathic remedies and would like to help clarify several points.
The health warning, first issued back in December 2009, advising against the collection and consumption of shellfish along much of the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty coastline remains in place, but the geographic extent of it has been reduced.
Waikato District Health Board is working with its Midland Region partners in Lakes and Taranaki DHBs to improve recordkeeping practice.
Four Vodafone Warriors visited Grey Base Hospital on Friday to show their support and help launch National Heart Week on the West Coast.
A decision by the National Government to cut $8 million from sexual health programmes will cost New Zealand dearly in the long run, Labour Youth spokesperson Jacinda Ardern.
Lobby group Family First is calling for the drinking age to be raised to 21 and has commissioned a report by a British expert to support its case.
The family of a man set alight and killed by a mental health patient say a judge's indulgent sentence for murder because of mental health factors in a recent sentencing set a dangerous precedent.
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