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Steven Dakin: We need to focus on eye healthcare for everyone

2 June 2020

Professor Steven Dakin, Head of the University of Auckland's School of Optometry and Vision Science, says New Zealand has an issue with eye-health inequity.
Telephone or tech? Stay connected with older people

2 June 2020

New research looks at the influence of phone calls, texts, emails and video-calling has on the loneliness and isolation experienced by some older people.
Merryn Gott: seeking letters from lockdown to tell a story

2 June 2020

Professor Merryn Gott and a team of researchers are investigating how the lockdown affected older people, and would love them to write her letters.
One way our ‘remoteness’ could serve us

1 June 2020

Opinion: NZ has remote communities with good uptake of technology and lockdown has shown we could be leaders in remote healthcare, writes Grant Searchfield.
Tool lets people know their personal risk of catching Covid-19

29 May 2020

Researchers have launched an online tool that lets a person assess their individual risk of catching Covid-19.
NZ-Pacific bubble should come first

28 May 2020

Opinion: Quarantine-free travel between NZ and Pacific Islands should be our priority, ahead of plans to extend our bubble to Australia, writes Collin Tukuitonga.
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.
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.
The first 1,000 days of dinner

25 May 2020

Researchers have produced a snapshot of what our infants are eating. The research holds clues to how Aotearoa’s children have become the second most obese in the world and what we might do about it.
Contact tracing apps explained

25 May 2020

Opinion: Speed is of the essence when breaking any chains of transmission, explains Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles, and that’s where contact tracing apps come in.
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.

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