Breadcrumbs List.
Health and medicine
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Novel drug offers hope for heart failure patients
29 March 2023
A novel drug is showing promise for alleviating both heart failure and the sleep apnoea associated with it.
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Covid-19: Kiwi health workers felt ‘abandoned’
27 March 2023
Kiwi frontline health workers’ feedback from Covid-19 needs to inform solutions to the current workforce crisis, researchers say.
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The insidious politics of mental illness
24 March 2023
Questioning the mental health system and labels given to various conditions by psychiatrists is the focus of a special issue of New Zealand Sociology.
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$70M to ramp up research into RNA vaccines and other treatments
22 March 2023
Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington and Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, have been named as co-hosts of a government-funded Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Development Platform.
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Supermarket promotions cost less but our health pays
16 March 2023
Opinion: Magda Rosin and Cliona Ni Mhurchu argue that supermarkets should be regulated to promote health food choices, using the sort of tactics they use to promote unhealthy food choices.
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Tairāwhiti Study – World-first roadmap for imaging and modelling child physiology
14 March 2023
Using cutting-edge MRI and modelling technology to understand child health.
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Policy changes urged to ensure Aotearoa’s health workforce reflects society
14 March 2023
A new study shows policy changes are urgently needed to ensure the country's future health workforce reflects the community it serves.
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Breakthrough drug from Dame Margaret Brimble's lab
11 March 2023
Neurological drug discovered by University of Auckland scientist Dame Margaret Brimble wins FDA approval to treat Rett syndrome.
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Family violence is making Kiwis sick, research shows
8 March 2023
Half of New Zealand women have experienced domestic abuse, which triples their risk of chronic disease and almost doubles their risk of a diagnosed mental illness.
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Women aren’t exactly from Venus, but they are different
8 March 2023
Opinion: Women have made strides in almost all aspects of society, yet still discriminated against in healthcare, both in terms of access to life-saving medical products and the safety of drugs and devices.
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The idiosyncratic female diabetic heart
8 March 2023
Opinion: Sex and gender disparities still exist in healthcare, which is particularly evident in the increased risk of heart disease for women with diabetes, writes Maryam Rahmani
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How do you talk to a whole country about Covid-19? Use a GIF
2 March 2023
Award-winning science communicator Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles talks about working with illustrator Toby Morris in a guest editorial for Frontiers.