Breadcrumbs List.
Health and medicine
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Vaccine race just not the same for children
21 August 2020
Opinion: Healthy adults are being tested in trials for Covid-19 vaccines. Only when proved safe will any new vaccine be given to children, writes Helen Petousis-Harris.
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Outbreak brings Covid reality to Pacific communities
20 August 2020
Opinion: Despite misinformation, South Auckland’s Pacific community will match respond and overcome the latest Covid outbreak promptly, writes Collin Tukuitonga.
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Learning to live with Covid is not a viable option
18 August 2020
Professor Rod Jackson sets the record straight on calls to let Covid-19 into Aotearoa.
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Promising tool to tackle autism
18 August 2020
Scientists at the University of Auckland have discovered a supplement could hold the key to reducing autism.
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Reckless and unsafe: Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine
14 August 2020
Opinion: Russia claims it has a Covid-19 vaccine and is recklessly and unethically moving to distribute it. Helen Petousis-Harris explains why that's so wrong.
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One quarter of high school students report depression
13 August 2020
The Youth19 Rangitahi Smart Survey has found the rate of depression reported by high school students has almost doubled since 2012.
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GPs frustrated over testing in lead-up to lockdown
13 August 2020
GPs say mixed messages before lockdown limited testing opportunities.
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Auckland teaching excellence acknowledged in national awards
13 August 2020
A third of the nine academics recognised in this year's New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards are from the University of Auckland.
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Chatbot as therapy for tinnitus – study launch
11 August 2020
Chatbot technology that offers therapy for tinnitus sufferers via a mobile device such as a smartphone will be trialled at the University of Auckland.
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Covid-19 no ‘great equaliser’
11 August 2020
Opinion: Those most impacted by Covid-19 are those who can least afford to weather it, write Professor Merryn Gott and Dr Jackie Robinson.
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What universities bring to the Covid recovery
5 August 2020
Opinion: The Government cannot address alone issues of the magnitude of Covid-19. Dawn Freshwater looks at where universities fit into our country's recovery.
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Period poverty eased by donations to student well-being fund
3 August 2020
Free sanitary products are available at the University of Auckland in Semester Two, funded by donations from the ‘Staff for Students: Well-being Fund’.