Nine To Noon for Monday 30 July 2018 Nine To Noon

Calls to beef up reporting of adverse drug side effects

health

9:08 AM.Research has shown that throughout the world, the side effects of medications are significantly under reported. In New Zealand the monitoring system relies on voluntary reports by GPs or patients to… Read more Audio
Dogs a 'psychological anchor' for younger people with dementia

health

9:36 AM.An Australian trial study has shown specially trained dogs can help younger people suffering from dementia as their world becomes increasingly confusing. Read more Audio
Spotlight on South America

9:50 AM.South America correspondent, Daniel Schweimler on the perils on being an environmental activist in Brazil. 57 were killed last year. Audio
Boy bands and fangirls

music arts

10:09 AM.From The Beatles to One Direction, millions of young girls and women over the decades have fallen in love with boy bands and some have taken their obsessions to the extreme. Australian film Producer… Read more Video, Audio
Book review - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

books

10:34 AM.Charlotte Graham-McLay reviews Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, published by Granta. Audio
Political commentators - Stephen Mills and Matthew Hooton

politics

11:07 AM.Simon Bridges' first National Party conference as leader, education at the forefront. Matthew Hooton is the managing director of the PR and lobbying firm, Exceltium. Stephen Mills is the executive… Read more Audio
The vegetable soup your gut will thank you for

food health

11:31 AM.The food we eat affects our gut health – which in turn affects our digestion, says scientist Amber Milan. Do your guts a favour with her (prebiotic and probiotic) kumara and leek soup. Read more Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

environment

11:47 AM.An eclectic mix of interesting things with Outdoorsman Kennedy Warne - stressed fish, silent reefs, the inspiration for The Lorax and the joy of mountain bivouacs. Audio

09:05 Calls to beef up reporting of adverse drug side effects

Variety of medicine bottles behind pills spilling from fallen bottle.

Photo: feverpitched/123RF

Research has shown that throughout the world, the side effects of medications are significantly under reported. In New Zealand the monitoring system relies on voluntary reports by GPs or patients to the Centre for Adverse Monitoring .But with the rapidly advancing field of new drugs, and drug formulations - health experts are highlighting a need for more active pharmacovigilance. Meanwhile the Ministry of Health has confirmed that overall reports received by CARM have dropped in the last few years and is looking at ways to improve this. Kathryn Ryan talks to the Victoria University's Professor Kevin Dew who has done studies in this area and Dr Kate Baddock a GP and chair of the New Zealand Medical Association.

Some of the reporting tools used currently, include:

- Online reporting forms, paper forms and information sheets on reporting

- A mobile app, information videos and social media

- 0800 number for reporting (466678)

- Data from the BPAC Medtech reporting tool

09:20 Special assistance dogs for younger onset dementia

Edie and Assistance Dog Melvin

Graeme and Assistance Dog Barrett

Grant and Assistance Dog Buttons

An Australian trial is looking into how specially trained assistance dogs can help people with younger onset dementia stay independent longer. University of Melbourne Professor of Disability and Social Inclusion, Keith McVilly says the dogs are already improving the lives of people taking part in the trial.

09:45 Spotlight on South America

South America correspondent, Daniel Schweimler on the perils on being an environmental activist in Brazil. 57 were killed last year.

10:05 Boy bands and fangirls

One Direction on stage in 2013 Photo: Wikipedia

From The Beatles to One Direction, millions of young girls and women over the decades have fallen in love with boy bands and some have taken their obsessions to the extreme. Australian film Producer Rita Walsh and her friend, director Jessica Leski have made a feature documentary following a group of women - from a teenager to a women in her late 60s - whose lives have changed by the boy bands they've loved. I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story is screening as part of the International Film Festival. Rita tells Kathryn about the project, filmed over four years.

10:35 Book review - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Charlotte Graham-McLay reviews Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, published by Granta.

10:45 The Reading

Resistance by Rebecca Barnes: The government wants to implant electronic chips in the brains of all the NZ populace but small pockets of resistance are forming around the country (1 of 15)

RNZ Production.

11:05 Political commentators

Photo: RNZ / Jane Patterson

Simon Bridges' first National Party conference as leader, education at the forefront.

Matthew Hooton is the managing director of the PR and lobbying firm, Exceltium. Stephen Mills is the executive director of UMR Research and former political adviser to two Labour governments.

11:30 When the food you love doesn't love you back

Photo: www.liggins.auckland.ac.nz

Bread, milk, cream, yoghurt, cheese, foods that you'd love to love - but they don't always feel the same way. Amber Milan is a research fellow from the Liggins Institute who has been examining milk intolerance, and how scientists can help find better ways to diagnose and manage intolerances. Amber shares a recipe for pre and pro-biotic kumara and leek soup.

Amber Milan is one of the speakers at Auckland University's Raising the Bar event which features 20 talks by leading academics at 10 inner-city Auckland bars on Tuesday 28th August 2018.

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

An eclectic mix of interesting things with adventurer, Kennedy Warne - stressed fish, silent reefs, the inspiration for The Lorax and the joy of mountain bivouacs.