Breadcrumbs List.
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
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Website’s digital stories highlight care of dying Māori kaumātua
29 March 2021
Te Ipu Aronui: A new website that focuses on Māori end-of-life experiences showcases whānau care of kaumātua approaching death.
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Ocular surgery researcher has her eye on the prize
26 March 2021
Doctoral candidate Judith Glasson has been taking her research to conferences around the country—and brought back prizes for her posters and presentations.
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Women report more economic abuse, controlling behaviour by partners
25 March 2021
New Zealand women in relationships with men are reporting increased levels of economic abuse and controlling behaviour by those partners, University of Auckland research shows.
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New Zealand’s abortion anomaly
24 March 2021
Opinion: On the first anniversary of changes to abortion legislation, Rachel Simon-Kumar and Janine Paynter compare NZ to other nations on sex-selective terminations.
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A side of knowledge with your beer?
23 March 2021
Aucklanders wanting to make the most of Aotearoa New Zealand’s freedom to socialise and to keep abreast of the latest thinking from some of this country’s leading academics have their chance on 20 April.
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The great Covid bin lid mystery – solved
22 March 2021
In late September 2020, there was a new mystery cluster. But how did the people involved catch Covid? It all comes down to adjacent hotel rooms and a domestic flight, explains Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles.
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The trouble with bubbles: When will we get quarantine-free travel in the Pacific?
22 March 2021
Opinion: Much of the Pacific is Covid-free, so our island neighbours need to negotiate opening up travel with New Zealand and other countries carefully. Dr Collin Tukuitonga explains the factors at play.
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Reducing organ failure in acute critical illness including Covid-19
16 March 2021
Acute critical illness can result from many different initiating causes such as severe infection, trauma or inflammation states like acute pancreatitis.
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Auckland scientist helps unravel mystery of Covid-19 brain effects
11 March 2021
Neuroscientist Helen Murray’s expertise with a tiny part of the brain has given her a role in unravelling the mysteries of Covid-19’s neurological effects.
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Researchers and scholars at top of their fields elected as Fellows
11 March 2021
Six University of Auckland researchers are among the 27 new Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows and Ngā Ahurei Honore a Te Apārangi Honorary Fellows recently elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Women can’t be excluded from vaccine trials
8 March 2021
Opinion: On International Women’s Day, Nikki Turner, Immunisation Advisory Centre director, talks about vaccine clinical trials and why women should never be excluded.
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Brands leverage Covid-19 lockdown to market unhealthy food
8 March 2021
Companies selling snacks and fast food leveraged Aotearoa’s first pandemic lockdown to market unhealthy products.