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Community checkpoints are an important and lawful part of NZ’s Covid response

28 May 2020

Opinion: Contrary to claims, there is a sound legal foundation for community checkpoints organised by iwi, write legal scholars Max Harris and Professor Emeritus David V Williams.
Premature babies' risk of obesity from nutrition supplements low

28 May 2020

A review of research reassures parents of premature babies that the risk of obesity in later life from nutrition supplements is low.
Mana at heart of Pacific Rainbow health project

28 May 2020

A project which aims to redress the impact of stigma on the health and wellbeing of the Pacific Rainbow community in Aotearoa New Zealand has received Health Research Council funding.
First in-depth study of mental health issues in Cook Islands

27 May 2020

A study investigating mental health in the Cook Islands is the first of its kind and will provide better understanding of how the Islands are being impacted by mental health issues.
Massive effort to rehome furniture

27 May 2020

Nearly 80 tonnes of surplus furniture, the equivalent of 13 elephants, was rehomed by the University of Auckland just prior to lockdown.
How AI is being used to lighten the load on painful knees

26 May 2020

Surgeons are using AI-driven software developed by the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) to operate on the knees of young patients, and have shown that it could dramatically reduce the recovery time of patients receiving a high-tibial osteotomy.
ABI researchers to develop a more personalised approach to ventilator monitoring

25 May 2020

Ventilators save lives, but treating patients with mechanical ventilators is not without risk, a risk that Dr Haribalan Kumar, Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), plans to reduce with a technology that will allow for more precise and dynamic monitoring of lung function at the bedside of a patient being treated with a ventilator.
Your nose: the window to your brain

25 May 2020

Opinion: Sense of smell loss is linked to neurodegenerative diseases and to Covid-19. Research on the nose could help determine their cause, writes Maurice Curtis.
Call for coherent policy approach for tobacco, alcohol and cannabis

21 May 2020

The cannabis referendum could be the first step to an evidence-based policy approach to each of the psychoactive substances New Zealanders consume the most.
Actions to eliminate Covid-19 could work for HIV

15 May 2020

Opinion: As NZ adapts to measures to limit the Covid-19 pandemic, the time is right to test and treat those who have HIV but don't know it, says Peter Saxton.
$1.35m to University researchers tackling health issues

14 May 2020

Researchers will investigate superbugs, safer ventilators and better stroke rehabilitation.
Becoming a doctor during a pandemic

14 May 2020

Opinion: Emma Espiner starts her career as a doctor later this year, and she doesn't want to be reflecting years down the track on a post-Covid health system that continues to favour some ethnicities over others.

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