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Rosemarie North
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🇳🇿🇨🇭🇺🇳🐾, playing the glad game, mostly. She/her. Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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who.int
2.4 billion workers are exposed to deadly heat globally.

The new WHO / @wmo-global.bsky.social report outlines 7 steps to protect them.

Act on heat stress with smart, scalable solutions. 🔗 bit.ly/3JvqKI1 #ClimateAction
Infographic titled “7 actions decision-makers can take to reduce extreme heat stress risks for workers.” The seven numbered actions are listed: Tailor heat-health policies Protect vulnerable workers Boost heat-health awareness Co-create locally relevant strategies Design solutions for scale Embrace innovation Strengthen evidence and impact
August 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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who.int
Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.
Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza.
August 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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In the UK, pop-up walk-in primary health care clinics tailor health services to underserved communities, such as fishing towns, and offer checks and tests to stop people falling sick in the first place @jimreedbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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4 graduates launch Ōhua Midwives, a Māori-led practice in Ōtautahi. Great timing: tomorrow is ōhua (full moon 🌝), symbol of fertility. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Midwives reclaiming tikanga Māori in birthing care across Ōtautahi
"Some of our whānau say they've never had friendship from previous midwives ...That connection matters."
www.rnz.co.nz
August 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
rosemarienorth.bsky.social
#Vaping more than doubles the risk of serious lung disease COPD, according to a new longitudinal Oxford University study. #tobacco www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Vaping doubles risk of serious lung disease, even without smoking history - study
And the news is even worse for people who use both cigarettes and vapes.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
rosemarienorth.bsky.social
Fascinating insights into lobbying by NZ dairy giants to reduce Govt regulations that would have protected parents and babies from milk formula marketing. 
#EndExploitativeMarketing www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula
Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
rosemarienorth.bsky.social
I ❤️IT.
Tech firm RUSH started as a video game developer, created the #COVID tracer app & is now working with doctors to develop NZ’s first national, harmonised, digital antimicrobial guidelines system to fight #AMR. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New tech to help doctors reduce risks from antibiotic resistance crisis
The project will prompt doctors to prescribe more safely, to reduce the looming risk of antimicrobial resistance, which one professor describes as: "A silent pandemic that is occurring globally."
www.rnz.co.nz
April 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Nature is Healing
Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back
Researchers spot orange Maori octopus clinging to back of large shark off coast of New Zealand in December 2023
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
rosemarienorth.bsky.social
I am delighted to rejoin the @WHO.int Country Office in Viet Nam 🇻🇳 this week, mostly remotely. Thrilled to be back with this talented, dedicated team.
Among the items on our agenda: supporting the Government during a #measles outbreak.
#HealthForAll
who.int WHO @who.int · Mar 18
The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000.

👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.
Measles is preventable with just two doses of measles vaccine.
March 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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❗️F**k
In addition to improving pain tolerance, #swearing has been linked to bolstered social bonds, improved memory, more physical strength and alleviation of the social pain of exclusion or rejection. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
Swearing is linked with increased pain tolerance and strength
The science behind swearing and its impact on pain and strength is complex, but research has shown that it is linked with a number of positive effects.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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“Every $1300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”

Among many other benefits, bike-lanes are a really smart public health investment.
People riding in a bike-lane.
March 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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In other news: Freddy, a 6-month-old golden retriever, has been rescued from a snowy US coal mine. #GoodDoggy
US hiker rescues dog from coal pit after week-long search
A tear came into a hiker’s eye when he spotted a pup in distress. He knew it was Freddy, a golden retriever whose disappearance had sparked a large search.
www.stuff.co.nz
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Gorgeous day & cheerful turnout for Ōtautahi Christchurch #Pride 🏳️‍🌈
Rainbow, trans, intersex & other flags in front of the Bridge of Remembrance in Christchurch, New Zealand.
March 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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“Auschwitz… began with small forms of persecution. Do not be indifferent when you hear… lies. Do not be indifferent when you see the past is stretched to fit the current political needs. Do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated against.” www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/02/20/marian-turski-dead/
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February 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Coming in from the Cold - stories of male survivors of #sexualviolence in Aotearoa. Launched at Scorpio Books last night in a moving & hopeful session with the authors. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/events/bo...
Fiona Clapham Howard holds her book
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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who.int
🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries.

These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide.

Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz

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WHO statement on potential global threat to people living with HIV
January 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7
WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the Organization. WHO plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks, often in dangerous places where others cannot go. The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948 and has participated in shaping and governing WHO’s work ever since, alongside 193 other Member States, including through its active participation in the World Health Assembly and Executive Board. For over seven decades, WHO and the USA have saved countless lives and protected Americans and all people from health threats. Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brink of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership in WHO. With the participation of the United States and other Member States, WHO has over the past 7 years implemented the largest set of reforms in its history, to transform our accountability, cost-effectiveness, and impact in countries. This work continues. We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the USA and WHO, for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe.
January 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Is there a word for the feeling evoked by ripening apricots that you will never taste because birds?
Tree branches with many nearly orange apricots
December 30, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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New research shows modern humans leaving Africa went extinct multiple times and they may have been helped to survive by interbreeding with Neanderthals - whose may have impimproved our immune system, healing, focus and ability to be morning people! 🧪https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwydgyy8120o
December 12, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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kellypeters.bsky.social
“Moments of change.”

Slate just published an article covering a number of behavioral interventions that have been tried.

There’s a crucial role for BE in urban planning.

slate.com/technology/2...
The Psychological Traps That Keep Us Stuck Commuting Via Car
Even when better options are available, switching modes is tough.
slate.com
December 7, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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If you don't have time to read the Royal Commission of Inquiry report into NZ's response to the #COVID pandemic, here's a 🧵 to summarise its 39 recommendations 🧪🌎
November 28, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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My people…please use alt text. I want to share your memes but I can’t because blind and visually impaired users can’t enjoy any of it!
November 22, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Amazing new Christchurch youth #mentalhealth facility Kahurangi (“blue skies”) has physio treatment spaces, sensory rooms, play and family therapy rooms, private entrances for emergencies, group therapy rooms and a whānau room. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Christchurch youth mental health facility opens its doors
The facility, which cost about $16m to build, can treat about 640 young people every month.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 22, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000.

Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.

#VaccinesWork

bit.ly/48SAtkf
Measles is preventable with just two doses of the measles vaccine. Vaccines work!
November 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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grouchomerckx.bsky.social
Gold and silver and pottery are all very well but Colchester Castle has an actual *bread roll* that's survived since Boudica's revolt because it's too burned to rot, and that's quite something
A museum case containing artefacts including a blackened hunk of bread
November 12, 2024 at 12:48 PM