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Cancer - stacking the odds in your favour

16 July 2019

Opinion: Healthy living is not a guarantee against cancer – but it does stack the odds in your favour, writes Andrew Shelling, Mark Elwood and Clare Wall.
Sharp increase in stillbirth risk if baby quiet in evening

12 July 2019

Pregnant women who notice their baby is less active than usual in the evenings should call their lead maternity carer straight away, and not leave it to the morning, a midwife researcher says.
Julia Slark: All care, now responsibility

12 July 2019

If there was a medical instrument to measure passion for the nursing profession, Dr Julia Slark would be off the chart.
$6m for new Gisborne MRI research lab targeting concussion, heart disease

11 July 2019

University of Auckland's Dr Samantha Holdsworth heads up Mātai, a new not-for-profit medical imaging research and innovation centre in Tairāwhiti Gisborne.
Communities struggle against alcohol industry

11 July 2019

Opinion: New liquor laws were meant to give communities more input into licensing decisions, but councils have a battle with the alcohol industry, writes Nicki Jackson.
Inspiring future neuroscientists at the Centre for Brain Research

10 July 2019

Recently, the Centre for Brain Research hosted the North Island regional final of the NZ Brain Bee competition. It was a record year with 180 students selected to participate.
Māori working with and for Māori in health research, and for better vision

10 July 2019

Dr Jason Turuwhenua of the ABI has successfully led a trial that builds a new model of engagement for researchers working with Māori and Pacific communities.
Michael J Fox Foundation gives $221,000 to NZ hunt for new Parkinson’s drugs

6 July 2019

A $221,000 grant from The Michael J Fox Foundation will allow a team of researchers at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research to ramp up their hunt for new drugs that could potentially slow down Parkinson’s disease.
Peter Adams: 'We need to stop profiting from other people's misery'

5 July 2019

Professor Peter Adams says it's time for a change of mindset on what's an acceptable funding model for our community organisations.
How common is dementia, really?

5 July 2019

There are said to be more than 60,000 people living with dementia here in New Zealand. But did you know that this number is only an estimate, based on statistics from other countries?
What cars and tobacco have in common

3 July 2019

Opinion: Dr Kirsty Wild compares the harms of rising car use to those of smoking and puts forward some suggestions to reduce the time we spend behind the wheel.
Drastic change in our food systems needed

3 July 2019

Opinion: We need to transform how we grow, market, consume and dispose of our food, and fast.

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