Breadcrumbs List.
Health and medicine
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How a sister's fear of needles became a PhD success
7 May 2024
When Michael Hoffman's graduates with his PhD this month, he knows his research is part of a potential revolution in how we take blood from reluctant patients. But the story behind it is far more personal.
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The tough science behind locating breast tumours
3 May 2024
Breast tissue has an unnerving tendency to move around in complicated ways, making it hard to pinpoint breast tumours when it comes to surgery. A team at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute wants to change that.
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Preterm babies deserve better
1 May 2024
Opinion: Katie Groom on how the government-funded Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee has made a number of preterm birth recommendations over the last 15 years, but we still aren't following them.
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AI’s huge potential to improve healthcare
29 April 2024
Opinion: Dr Reza Shahamiri describes some of the ways AI is transforming healthcare services to be more accessible and affordable, and how it's going to get even better.
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Waiting for mums' milk safer than thought for preterm babies
26 April 2024
A new study into feeding moderately premature babies finds giving them costly intravenous proteins and extra milk doesn’t get them out of hospital sooner than simply waiting until a mother’s milk has come in.
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Fifty years on follow-up finds landmark steroid study remains safe
23 April 2024
50-year follow up finds no adverse heart health risk from landmark steroid study to reduce illness and death for pre-term babies
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Time to give your heart (and wallet) an oil change
21 April 2024
Opinion: Drs Kathryn Bradbury and Helen Eyles provide a guide to cheaper and healthy alternatives to the increasingly costly olive oil, for drizzling, baking and frying.
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Excessive screen-time bad for kids' health
15 April 2024
Kiwi kids spend the most time on the internet in class in the world, with a new study finding multiple health harms.
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George Laking: a lifetime of revelations
3 April 2024
When a cancer specialist develops a rare form of cancer and considers it a learning experience, that’s dedication to research. George Laking says his time in hospital also proved his point.
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Shining a light on Pacific health outcomes
31 March 2024
Opinion: Dr Simone Watkins captures what it's like, as an Afakasi Samoan doctor, to experience Pacific health statistics, up close and very personally
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Landmark dementia study focuses on ethnic diversity
25 March 2024
A new study into dementia starts with the shocking premise that we don’t really know how many Kiwis are affected, or their cultural background.
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Vision for whānau health inspires graduate
21 March 2024
Merophy Brown wants her masters research to help all whānau to have positive experiences in Whangārei Hospital.