Excellent news out of the UK. Abrysvo, a vaccine for RSV administered to pregnant women, reduces infant hospitalisation by 80%.  From the BB...

A closing of some of the tabs First, a set from closing a pile of the week's accumulated stories from the Stuff papers. I wonder whether...

The tabs! “ Is it unfair on everybody else that has paid for that road and doesn't use it? I mean, this equity stuff's bollocks, thi...

Either New Zealand has no shortage of nurses, or New Zealand is a fundamentally silly country.  Look on, ye voters, and despair.  A new nurs...

If a drug or medical device has already gone through the regulatory gauntlet at the FDA and Australia, or in the UK and Canada, or the EU an...

The tabs... Earthquake strengthening costs on one Wellington performance venue have increased from $90m to $182m and now to $329m ( Dom , He...

The morning's worthies: NZ alcohol policy basically gives a veto over licensing to the Medical Officer of Health and to the Police. Suck...

The tabs do pile up. A few days out at the NZAE meetings, a couple days leave, and then digging out from under the pile... If the government...

The worthies, on the closing of the browser tabs I still have great difficulty understanding why it is worse to draw up to 5000 cubic meters...

It's been a while since last posting. The tabs... Gita Gopinath on Covid's lessons for inflation and central banking Long-Covi...

Oh the tabs.  Chris Quin is CE of Foodstuffs North Island. His chat with Morning Report on what they've been doing to get groceries thro...

Easing back into the office after a summer break and already the tabs have multiplied. Today's worthies: Alex Penk on the value of free ...

Another 'everything is stupid and broken' compilation from the closing of the browser tabs. Pharmac's comms team lied, repeatedl...

The closing of the tabs: Environmental review laws have long been used for NIMBY purposes. This is a new one . The best that could come of t...

There's a literature on everything, so I expect someone's already done this. I'd be keen to see the result if someone has. There...

A closing of some of the browser tabs: Eli Dourado on NEPA - America's equivalent to the RMA . Superb seeming primer on how it all works...

I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.  We had fun anywa...

Let's get these browser tabs back under control Shutting down a late-night food-truck because it's too popular and reducing options ...

Monday's column hit on regulatory barriers to entry in medicine that really look like cartel-enforcement mechanisms. Westpac had this n...

James Hogan makes an excellent point on the doctor cartel. I'll quote it below, mildly edited to put the links in: In this link, Specia...