Breadcrumbs List.
Health and medicine
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Why Uber Eats isn’t doing you any favours
22 November 2022
Opinion: Modern technologies have ushered in a new ‘digital food environment’, but it isn’t doing most of us any nutritional favours, says Nisha Mahawar.
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Flu jab protects against serious birth harms
16 November 2022
A large study of pregnant Kiwi women hospitalised with influenza shows those who are vaccinated have a reduced risk of serious birth outcomes.
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Dr Moxon wins Clinical Equity Teaching Award
15 November 2022
Dr Te Aro Moxon, paediatrician and senior lecturer in Child and Youth Health, has won the 2022 Te Tohu Hiranga Award from Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waikato.
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What you need to know about sunscreens
14 November 2022
Opinion: Amanda Oakley explains what you need to know when buying and using sunscreens, which are now regulated in New Zealand.
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Using subtle electrical signals to spot and stop brain injury
10 November 2022
Dr Hamid Abbasi has been presented with the Cooper Award by the Royal Society Te Apārangi for developing a method for automatically identifying biomarkers of hypoxic-ischemic brain injuries that can occur during childbirth.
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Medal for mahi improving whānau end-of-life care
10 November 2022
The HRC has awarded a medal to a team helping improve end-of-life care for whānau.
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Eye drops set to reduce surgery
8 November 2022
University spin-out aims to treat eye disease keratoconus non-invasively.
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Protein boost no advantage for tiny prem babies
3 November 2022
New University of Auckland research calls into question the idea more protein is better for preterm babies.
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Revealing mysteries of head and heart brings Marsden success for ABI
3 November 2022
Explorations of the ADHD brain and the mechanisms of heart rate variation win funding at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute
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Papaarangi Reid: 'Aotearoa is built on health inequities'
1 November 2022
Opinion: The state of Māori health is an outcome of deliberate policies to break down Māori people, lands, culture and relationships, writes Professor Papaarangi Reid.
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Cutting-edge brain technology takes out top Velocity prize
1 November 2022
A tool to improve precision and safety during neurosurgery is shining a new light on the old adage, measure twice and cut once.
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Andrew Chen: bringing a digital lens to research
1 November 2022
From 2020, Dr Andrew Chen was called on by many to explain the Covid-19 app. It helped that he had a genuine interest in its evolution.