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Untold mental health stories win awards
ABOVE: Awards winners (from left) Jo Randerson, Jessica Le Bas, Debbie Hagar and Halina Ogonowska-Coates listen to Valerie Bos from the Mental Health Foundation at the Media Grants Awards. Working...
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Men donate their faces for men’s health
EARLIER in the year, there were rumours Movember was cancelled – but not so, says Mo Bro and New Zealand organiser Jim Slattery. He’s delighted with how well the month went, with more than $700,000 in...
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KIWI men are yet again ditching their razors for Movember to support prostate cancer sufferers. Every year 600 out of the 3000 Kiwi men diagnosed with prostate cancer die. The money raised this...
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Youth quizzed on mental health discrimination
A GROUP of young people is researching mental health and discrimination issues facing Wellington youth. The researchers are members of a youth advisory group working with the Mental Health Foundation,...
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“Ex-psychiatric patient” tag for Studylink client
WHEN a Studylink client recently visited the Willis Street branch, little did he expect to see a note on his file labelling him an “ex-psychiatric patient”. It has left him shocked and uncertain about...
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First he beat cancer, now he’s knocked off Mt Fuji
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Mr White reached both the summit of Fuji and his fundraising target. IMAGE: Maree Werder AFTER receiving life-saving surgery for head and neck cancer in 2009, Mt Victoria resident...
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