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Related video: Up to 800 people a year face a lingering and painful death from alcohol. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Getty The alcohol industry has hit back at calls for greater restrictions on how its product is advertised, saying there's no evidence advertising increases consumption. Nor is it targeting people aged under the legal drinking age, says the NZ Alcohol Beverages Council (NZABC), despite Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi saying there's been a noticeable increase in alcohol adverts on social media this year. A number of groups - including the New Zealand Medical Association ...

+Undoctored NZMA supports call for Government to set the standards for how the alcohol industry is allowed to market its products Media release from the New Zealand Medical Association Wednesday 16 December 2020, 04:05 PM The New Zealand Medical Association adds its voice to Alcohol Healthwatch, Hāpai te Hauora, the Cancer Society and Health Coalition Aotearoa in calling for reducing alcohol exposure to children and young people especially tamariki Māori and Pasifika children who are disproportionately subjected to alcohol marketing. NZMA supports the call for the Government to s...

Covid 19 coronavirus: How New Zealand could roll out the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine 16 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read The FDA grants emergency use for Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. Video / AP Nicholas Jones is an investigative reporter at the New Zealand Herald nicholas.jones@nzherald.co.nz@nickjonesnzer Boxes with dry ice and GPS tracking mean the first Covid-19 vaccines to arrive in New Zealand could conceivably be given in GP clinics and rest homes. A special Government taskforce will ultimately decide who is prioritised and how, with more details set to be announced. Th...

Call for tighter rules around alcohol advertising Newshub 16/12/2020 Dan Satherley, Emma Stanford © Video - Newshub; Image - Getty Related video: Up to 800 people a year face a lingering and painful death from alcohol. The New Zealand medical establishment is calling for an end to industry self-regulation when it comes to the advertising and marketing of alcohol. Call for tighter rules around alcohol advertising Replay Video UP NEXT In the eight years to September 2020, 189 complaints about alcohol adverts and promotions were laid - fewer than half of which were upheld o...

CHRIS SKELTON/Stuff No medicinal cannabis products are subsidised by the Government. Some members of a closed Lyttelton social media group criticised last week’s article, saying it represented Lockhorst as “dodgy” and claimed it had racist undertones. Others expressed concern for Lockhorst, his customers and the future of his business. A woman who had used medicinal cannabis supplied by Lockhorst for her chronic pain wrote a letter to The Press saying she was extremely upset by the article. She had tried “multiple medications, with multiple side effects” and none had worked....