by bronwen | Wednesday, 15 February, 2017 | Firstcheck on the road, New Zealand
Firstcheck teamed up with Dr Tom Mulholland and took a recent ‘mission’ to the Chatham Islands as part of its drive to improve access to skin specialists for all New Zealanders and Australians. Taking Firstcheck to far-flung corners “Being 800 kilometres off the...
by bronwen | Thursday, 19 January, 2017 | New Zealand, Skin cancer facts
Skin checks? Nah, she’ll be right mate In a country with the highest rate of melanoma in the world, the seemingly cavalier Kiwi approach to skin checks is of real concern when it comes to skin cancer. Whether it’s a symptom of our busy lifestyles, a ‘won’t happen to...
by bronwen | Monday, 27 June, 2016 | New Zealand, Skin cancer facts
Put frankly, this is the sort of table you don’t want to be top of. New Zealand now tops the world table for the highest rate of melanoma. Australian research, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology in 2016, has found New Zealand rates are high...
