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What it’s really like to grow old – challenged, not threatened

4 June 2019

Enough talk about decline, disability, frailty and disease in advanced age – a new University of Auckland-led study suggests 85-plus New Zealanders view managing their own health as a matter of challenges and adaptation.
Cancer research leading to a treatment revolution

31 May 2019

In the past decade, cancer research undertaken at the University of Auckland has changed lives. Our top scientists say it has now entered the next frontier and there is hope that cancer could eventually be brought under control.
HRC funding success for FMHS staff

31 May 2019

Six staff members from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences have collectively been awarded over $1 million in research funding from the Health Research Council.
Cancer researcher Elizabeth Iorns now a fearless entrepreneur

31 May 2019

Elizabeth Iorns put her career as a cancer researcher on the backburner to help other scientists.
Dr Helen Murray: The best of both worlds

30 May 2019

Dr Helen Murray discusses her love for biomedical research and her current project investigating the loss of smell during Alzheimer's disease.
Advice, not probiotics, helps pregnant mums gain less weight

30 May 2019

Women gain less weight during pregnancy when given personalised healthy eating advice, but probiotics do not reduce health risks in pregnant women with obesity, a new study has found.
Knocking out proteins on the hunt for treatments

29 May 2019

In Professor Mike Dragunow’s lab they grow human brain cells – everything from star-shaped astrocytes and neurons, to the focus of his latest research paper, microglia – the brain’s “surveyors”.
Petition to tax sugary drinks can’t be ignored (again)

24 May 2019

University of Auckland academic Dr Gerhard Sundborn, on behalf of the New Zealand Beverage Guidance Panel, has launched another petition to the government to introduce a tax on sugary drinks.
Precision medicine on horizon for type 2 diabetes

22 May 2019

New Zealand researchers are bringing us closer to a future where people living with type 2 diabetes will be prescribed the best medications for them personalised to their genetics, body size, ethnicity, age and other characteristics.
First-year uni can add 4kg to your weight. Here’s how universities can scale that back

21 May 2019

Opinion: Students typically gain weight in their first year of university. Here are five things universities can do to help students eat better.
Teuila Percival: There’s more to being a doctor than medicine

17 May 2019

Opinion: It’s hard to be a paediatrician, Teuila Percival reckons, without feeling compelled to do more than just practise medicine.
The tide turns on HIV

16 May 2019

Opinion: The goal to virtually eliminate HIV transmission in NZ by 2025 suddenly looks attainable thanks to publicly-funded drug PrEP, explains Dr Peter Saxton.

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