Press Release – University of Auckland Access to medicines by vulnerable groups in the community, increasing medicine costs, and the demand for new medicines are some of the challenges identified in an independent study of priority medicine policy issues in New Zealand.
Press Release – OraTaiao A new report concludes that fracking practices in NZ pose risks to health and the environment. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has recommended that regulations be overhauled and tightened to protect New Zealanders from harm. But …
Press Release – Canterbury Hospitals Medical Staff Association Here in NZ, we have a proud history of taxpayer funded, quality public health care. Even if we dont always love how our public health care system works, for most people it does…well work . The medicines, care, surgical and other procedures …
Press Release – Jane Kelsey It is great news that the plain packaging tobacco law will be introduced to the House next year, albeit more than three years after the Maori Affairs Committees report on how to make Aotearoa New Zealand effectively smokefree by 2025, said …
Press Release – Global Asthma Network Access to affordable medicines is threatened by the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, according to the New Zealand-based leader of the Global Asthma Network, Professor Innes Asher.
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The Malaysian government has tackled head-on the threat that the TPPA poses to smokefree policies by proposing a total carveout of tobacco control policies from the agreement, according to Professor Jane Kelsey, who is currently in Brunei.
Column – Gordon Campbell Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the countries who sign up to it, if said corporates happen to feel disadvantaged by any laws or regulations …
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey In theory, the New Zealand Parliament has the power to make and unmake our gambling laws. In practice, the backroom contract between the National government and Sky City could stymie effective regulation of gaming for the next 35 years, according …
Press Release – Bridget Williams Books. Hidden Agendas What We Need to Know about the TPPA. Jane Kelsey Forget the label “free trade agreement”. The TPPA, under negotiation between New Zealand, the USA and ten other countries, is a direct assault on our right to decide our own future. In this hard-hitting BWB Text, Professor …
Article – Citizen News 7 May: World Asthma Day Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service CNS Asthma causes disabling symptoms in millions of people who struggle to breathe, making ordinary activities extraordinarily difficulty things like going to school, working at …
Press Release – New Zealand Medical Students’ Association – NZMSA Press release: New Zealand medical students concerned about lack of outcomes for protection of patient rights in TPP negotiations The New Zealand Medical Students Association (NZMSA) urges negotiators and politicians to preserve New Zealand’s freedom …
Press Release – AFTINET As the 16th round of Trans-Pacific trade talks between Australia, the US and nine Asia Pacific countries begin in Singapore this week, academics and health groups will discuss the potential impact on women’s lives of US demands for more corporate …
