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News: tagged with "disease"

• Beware algal blooms in Christchurch ponds and wetlands

  Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: pets, environment, water, safety, disease
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th November 2020 People and their pets are being urged to avoid stormwater ponds and wetlands in Christchurch as they could contain the potentially toxic algae - cyanobacteria

• Macular Degeneration Awareness Week: 2nd to 9th November 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: health, disease, awareness, older adults
  Macular Degeneration Awareness week is fast approaching and this campaign aims to highlight what New Zealanders risk losing if they don't take their eye health seriously

• Catch up on your free vaccination to avoid catching measles

  Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, young people, disease
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 6th October 2020 If you’re between 15 and 30 years old and haven’t had your MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, or you’re not sure, get your free immunisation now

• Getting Through Together Digest: 26th August 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, wellbeing, resilience, disease, care, lockdown
  Kia ora. You all right Aotearoa? These are truly extraordinary times. For everyone in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland, we appreciate all you're doing to keep Aotearoa safe - we know level 3 isn't easy

• Sign the petition: Fund treatments for Kiwis with severe Crohn’s disease and colitis

  Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: community engagement, disease, funding, medical, petition
  Crohn's & Colitis New Zealand Charitable Trust (CCNZ) is asking for your support of a petition to Parliament on behalf of the New Zealand community of over 20,000 patients who live with Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis (Crohn’s and Colitis) - in

• Selwyn Libraries supporting mask making

  Posted: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: safety, disease, prevention
  Selwyn District Council media release: 25th August 2020 The Selwyn Libraries are helping out now that people are encouraged to wear masks at COVID-19 Alert Level 2

• Friends of Ireland Wellbeing Service

  Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: migrants, support, services, resources, disease, Community Groups, wellbeing
  Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte. Health is better than wealth

• $1.2m funding boost for Parkinson's disease study

  Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: disease, research
  University of Canterbury media release: 30th June 2020 University of Canterbury-led research that could help Parkinson’s disease patients learn more about their risk of dementia has received a million-dollar funding boost

• Survey on how life is going for the disability community

  Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: survey, disabilities, disabled, lockdown, disease, emergencies
  The Office for Disability Services invites you to participate in a weekly survey on the issues and risks being experienced by disabled people in the COVID-19 environment

• COVID-19 info for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities

  Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, lockdown, disease, migrants, refugees
  The Community Languages Information Network Group (CLING) in Canterbury is collating COVID-19 information for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities

• Libraries boost home connections to low-cost online access

  Posted: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: technology, disease, accessibility, lockdown
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 31st March 2020 Christchurch City Libraries (CCL) is helping families and individuals get online at home

• Looking after mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19

  Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: mental health, mental wellbeing, disease, advice, lockdown
  Message from the Mental Health Foundation: 18th March 2020 Tēnā koe. It's a tense time for most of us. COVID-19 is scary and it's rapidly changing the way we work, socialise, travel, access healthcare, exercise, shop and live

• Stay calm and play your part to contain COVID-19

  Posted: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: prevention, disease, advice
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 10th March 2020 New Zealanders should try not to panic about COVID-19 and instead focus on ways they can limit its spread, advised Te Papa Hauora experts at the country’s first coronavirus public meeting

• Information on the novel coronavirus from the Ministry of Health

  Posted: Thursday, February 13, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, prevention, information, disease, advice
  There are currently outbreaks overseas of a new disease called COVID-19 (also known as novel coronavirus). The Ministry of Health is closely monitoring the situation and following guidance from the World Health Organization

• Community and Public Health providing advice on novel coronavirus to passengers

  Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: public health, information, disease, advice
  Canterbury District Health Board media release: 27th January 2020 Community and Public Health will have staff at Christchurch International Airport from today to provide information on novel coronavirus for passengers arriving on flights direct from Main