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Each year, we witness the yearly marketing campaign to invite everyone to have the ‘flu vaccine’. I often hear the same question: ‘Should I have a flu vaccine shot or not?’.

According to the NZ District Health Boards 2006 report, three times as many people died from medical error than the annual road toll. Safe & Quality use of Medicine (SQM) spokesperson Dr Dwayne Crombie stated: ‘that they are aware of the level of medication errors is hugely significant’.

The New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre (NZPhvC) released a news item, published on the Te Tanu Hauora Health & Safety Commission’s website on 4th April 2024, welcoming insights and experiences on the theme of COVID-19 and medication safety.

You have just finished that extra exercise routine, or shifting those heavy boxes, perhaps spent more digging time in the garden or decided on an extra physical routine?

Lactose is the primary sugar found in milk, and is a disaccharide (a double sugar molecule), comprising one molecule of glucose and one molecule of lactose.

An Auckland energy worker who uses Aura Soma therapy has treated young people who have used drugs. “Using drugs destroys the energetic protection around people”, says the former social worker turned trained healer who asked not to be named in order maintain client integrity.

Daily use of Aspirin® has been linked with pancreatic cancer. Aspirin has been described as the drug of the millennium, but is it? A recent report on Harvard University’s ongoing study of 88, 000 nurses has revealed that those who took two or more aspirins a week for 20 years or more had a 58 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer.

Nelson woman, Maureen McKain is living proof that surgical intervention combined with natural therapies and a positive attitude blend well together.

Over the centuries, people all over the world have added food ingredients from the land grown around them and mainly through trial and error, chosen a few items as natural libido boosters.