Articles in ‘Health’

Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand COVID-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process – which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations – still took more than a week. When Summit was done, researchers analyzed the results. It was, in the words of…

As millions worldwide struggle with the social, economic, and personal fallout from Government-imposed lockdowns, the pandemic is all but over in Sweden, which recorded only 66 deaths related to COVID-19 between 27 July and 27 August – less than 1% of the average monthly death rate of 6,800 people. · Dr Soo Aleman, senior physician and associate professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, explains T-cell immunity, why it is the only…

In New Zealand, like in many other countries, the Government is claiming that it is ‘listening to the science’ when it comes to COVID-19. · But when the scientific consensus is that no evidence exists to support such widely-adopted measures as school closures, travel restrictions, and mandatory wearing of masks in public, then is the Government truly ‘listening to the science’, or only hearing what it wants to?

While the New Zealand government enforces severe lockdown measures in a bid to ‘stamp out’ COVID-19, there is a growing international endorsement of the public health strategy in Sweden, which has now recorded far fewer deaths per capita than the United Kingdom – despite keeping schools, restaurants, and workplaces open throughout the duration of the pandemic.

“A combination of FDA and TGA approved Ivermectin, Zinc and Doxycycline has shown positive results for COVID-19 and should be considered immediately to fight the pandemic,” says CDD Medical Director Professor Thomas Borody. Australia's The Centre for Digestive Disease (CDD) Medical Director Professor Thomas Borody MB, BS, BSc(Med), MD, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FACP, FACG, AGAF, says FDA and TGA approved Ivermectin which he uses regularly in his…

Before we had modern luxuries such as television, warm baths and queen-sized beds, we were living in caves, hunted by dangerous animals and fighting the elements. We didn’t have mirrors, so we didn’t really care about what we looked like, we were much too busy trying to survive to worry about bullying and the only time we were in a state of stress was when we were running away from danger. Which is where our ‘fight or flight’ response was born.

As a first-world country, we are expected to have healthy children, living in happy homes and being offered great health services and as a whole, our children do tend to be offered a great range of services, in comparison to other western countries, however based on statistics, it is evident there are some things that we could improve upon. According to UNICEF data, from a 2016 report, New Zealand was placed just below the OECD (Organisation…