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Free heart checks for women offered in Hastings 11 May, 2021 10:57 PM 2 minutes to read The free heart checks are being offered at the Heretaunga Women's Centre Monday's during May. Photo / Warren Buckland The free heart checks are being offered at the Heretaunga Women's Centre Monday's during May. Photo / Warren Buckland Hastings Leader Free heart checks for women are being offered in Hastings each Monday in May, to promote women's heart health. Heart Foundation NZ says more than 50 New Zealand women die each week from heart disease, making it the single biggest cause of death for women in N...

Lockdown to lift, experts question 'risk' despite 'reassuring' test results Newshub 17/02/2021 © Video - Newshub; Image - Getty. Watch: A decision is made on COVID-19 alert levels. Auckland will move to alert level 2 at midnight tonight and the rest of New Zealand will move to level 1 at the same time, following a decision from Cabinet on Wednesday afternoon. The decision comes even after a third person in the community tested positive. This person is a household contact of cases D and E, who are students at Papatoetoe High School. Case D is a close contact of Case A. Subway, McDonald's:...

Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 7:16 am The safety of all New Zealanders is our priority and due to the new community cases of Covid-19, we have decided to cancel our Big Heart Appeal Street Collection for 2021. We are so grateful to the thousands of volunteers who were prepared to give their time for us and collect donations during our Street Collection. The Big Heart Appeal is our largest public fundraising activity of the year, generating vital funds for heart research and without the street collection we need people more than ever to support us. Every 90 minutes, one New Zealander dies of h...

A cardiology team in Gisborne is crediting stronger relationships with Ngāti Porou for the success of recent remote clinics up the East Coast. Gisborne-based cardiology nurse practitioner Tracy Low, left, and Hauora Tairāwhiti head of cardiology Dr Gerry Devlin. Photo: Alice Angeloni / LDR The burden of heart disease falls unequally on Māori and Pasifika, a problem further compounded in isolated and high deprivation areas. Hauora Tairāwhiti director of cardiology Dr Gerry Devlin said the team had been looking at their services and how they could operate differently. "If you do it the sam...

Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 3:27 pm Show your big heart and support research at the Heart Foundation Big Heart Appeal street collection, on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 February 2021. The Heart Foundation still urgently needs volunteers for this year’s Big Heart Appeal street collection on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 February. Given the difficult time we’ve all faced in 2020, this year more than ever, the Heart Foundation is relying on big-hearted people to help make sure that world class research into heart disease continues to be funded. Please join with us to help make a difference. “We h...