Prostate screening story doesn’t change much in NZ

PROSTABLOG NZ: The ideological debate about prostate cancer screening hasn’t moved along much in New Zealand over the past few years. I’m judging this from an anecdote a guest speaker at my journalism course told students this week. An experienced journalist, she said a few years ago she was writing a piece for NZ Listener [...]

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I’m back blogging…occasionally – and thanks for all the feedback

PROSTABLOG NZ:  It’s nearly a year since I shed that damned tricky wee organ, the prostate…and perhaps, inevitably, I’m back at this blog. Not filing daily, as I did for six months, but adding something now and again as prostate information comes up. But there’s something else that’s brought me back – you guys. You’ve [...]

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NZ Listener magazine publishes article on cancer screening

PROSTABLOG NZ: Wellington freelance writer Ruth Nichol has published her investigation into cancer screening in the latest NZ Listener magazine. It’s an excellent read. Buy the mag to read it all. Here are a couple of pages:

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Latest NZ Ministry of Health prostate cancer projections given odd man out treatment

PROSTABLOG NZ: Rates of prostate cancer detected in NZ are expected to rise about 23% in the decade leading up to 2016, moving from 91 cases per 100,000 to 112. That’s the finding of a Ministry of Health cancer projection report released late last month, but only just picked up by news media (none of [...]

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Media accountability – who holds the ‘new’ media to account?

PROSTABLOG NZ: You Tube’s silent treatment of my plea to restore my piddling video because it has a social value transcending their “community guidelines” raises some issues. These have nothing to do with prostate cancer, but bear with me. As a journalist with nearly half a century’s experience, I’m finally waking up to the fact [...]

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