Lucy Lawless on Her Margaret Moth Sundance Doc: ‘The Spirit of Margaret Grabbed Me by the Scruff of My Neck and Booted Me Through the Door’
When you’ve spent the most memorable years of your career battling gods and single-handedly defeating an army, what’s left for a warrior to do? For “Xena: Warrior Princess” star Lucy Lawless, the answer was making her directorial debut with a doc about a fellow New Zealand icon, daredevil CNN war…#xenawarriorprincess #lucylawless #newzealand #margaretmoth #neverlookaway #sundance #joeduran #aucklandnewzealand #australasia #thrill (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New Zealand Firms More Upbeat As Signs Inflation Could Ease
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New Zealand's Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study-10 years on (POIS-10): descriptive outcomes to 12 years post-injury - Derrett S, Owen HE, Barson D, Maclennan B, Samaranayaka A, Harcombe H, Wyeth EH.
BACKGROUND: The 'Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study-10 years on' (POIS-10) aims to contribute to improving long-term disability, health and well-being outcomes for injured New Zealanders. This brief report describes recruitment, characteristics and key o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

The effect of the 'Swim Reaper' program on water safety awareness, drowning mortality and morbidity among males aged 15-34 years in Aotearoa, New Zealand - Peden AE, Williamson S, Fozard F, Hanly M, Moller H.
The objective of this study was to evalu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Travelers Look for Deeper Experiences With Native Cultures
For visitors to New Zealand, the chance to see a haka, the ceremonial Maori dance, has long been as much a part of the country’s allure as its glaciers, geysers and glowworm caves. But increasingly, instead of merely catching a cultural performance en route to New Zealand’s Fiordland, travelers…#newzealand #maori #newzealands #fiordland #sarahhandley #tourismnewzealand (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cannabis and the brain: What's the long-term impact?
Researchers in New Zealand have used MRI to evaluate the effects of cannabis (or marijuana) on the aging brain. They presented their findings at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting in Toronto, Canada, and our report on their work was the most viewed article on AuntMinnie.com in 2023. For an update, we caught up with Rebecca Lee, a doctoral candidate in medical physics and imaging at the University of Otago and the New Zealand Brain Research Institute. In this video interview recorded on January 8, she explains how and why the team conducted the study. She also comments on th...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 11, 2024 Category: Radiology Tags: MRI Source Type: news

New Zealand Home-Building Costs Rise at Slowest Pace Since 2016
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Wind vector change and fire weather index in New Zealand as a modified metric in evaluating fire danger - Brody-Heine S, Zhang J, Katurji M, Pearce HG, Kittridge M.
Background Wildfire spread is influenced significantly by the weather variability. Wind speed and direction changes, resulting from synoptic weather systems and small-scale meteorological processes in complex terrain, can drastically alter fire intensity a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

These are the safest airlines in the world, according to one ranking
Air New Zealand was named the world's safest airline by AirlineRatings.com. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images AirlineRatings.com has published its annual list of the world's safest airlines for 2024. Air New Zealand took back its crown as the world's safest carrier, beating out Qantas.…#airnewzealand #airlineratingscom #qantas #unitedairlines #americanairlines #deltaairlines #airline #japanairlines #coastguard #tokyo (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

IPG sells Hill Holliday and Deutsch New York to Attivo Group
New Zealand-based Attivo Group acquires Hill Holliday and Deutsch New York, which have been part of IPG for over 20 years.#newzealand #attivogroup #hillholliday #deutschnewyork #ipg (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Interpublic Group Sells Deutsch, Hill Holliday to New Zealand ’s Attivo Group
Advertising giants like Interpublic Group thrived for decades by scooping up top ad agencies and combining them into massive marketing-services conglomerates. Now Interpublic is unloading two of its best-known agency assets as the sector focuses more on technology and less on traditional creative…#interpublicgroup #interpublic #deutsch #donnydeustch #hillholliday #boston #newzealand #attivogroup #ipg #dny (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New Zealand says China's safeguard duties on milk powder over
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Europe celebrates New Year amid heightened security
The first major city to see 2024 was Auckland, in New Zealand, where fireworks were let off from its tallest building, the Sky Tower People across Europe welcomed 2024 against a backdrop of heightened security concerns. Ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and tensions in parts of the world, have…#auckland #newzealand #skytower #ukraine #gaza #newyeareve #vatican #stpeterssquare #palestinian #israeli (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The cities meme
This is making the rounds on Twitter, so I thought I would serve up my somewhat unusual, not quite playing the game by its rules answers: City I hate: Do I hate any cities? I don’t think so. I do recall being disappointed in Invercargill, New Zealand. I expected a cool, end of the earth vibe, but…#invercargill #newzealand #milan #berlin #singapore #fairfaxcounty #bordeaux #vilnius #caracas #santiago (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Corrigendum to "Mortality trends and the impact of exposure on Australian coastal drowning deaths, 2004-2021" [Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 47 (2023) 100034] - Koon WA, Peden AE, Lawes JC, Brander RW.
Mortality trends and the impact of exposure on Australian coastal drowning deaths, 2004-2021 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 100034 William A. Koon, Amy E. Peden, Jasmin C. Lawes, Robert W. Brand... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news