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'Polypill' could save more people from heart attacks and strokes
20 September 2019
More people would take their heart medications if their pills were combined into a single ‘polypill’, potentially saving hundreds more New Zealanders from heart attacks and strokes.
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Making better food choices with mindfulness
19 September 2019
Mindfulness has been touted as the antidote to stress and the path to serenity. But can it also help us make better food choices?
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Dementia doesn’t care what age you are
19 September 2019
Opinion: In World Alzheimer’s Month Brigid Ryan from the Centre for Brain Research explains that dementia isn’t just for the elderly, it affects people of all ages.
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Mental health support for Pacific climate change migrants
18 September 2019
New Zealand could become a relocation destination for many Pacific peoples displaced by rising sea levels and other climate-change related disasters.
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Funding shows breadth of research at University of Auckland
17 September 2019
Funding of almost $27 million has been awarded to the University of Auckland for a wide range of research projects affecting the physical and environmental health of New Zealanders.
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Daily aspirin – yes or no?
17 September 2019
A world-first personalised, 'benefit-harm' calculator developed in Aotearoa New Zealand will help people decide, with their doctors, if they should take a daily aspirin as a preventative against heart disease and stroke.
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Vegetarians and vegans: lower heart disease risk but higher stroke risk?
13 September 2019
Vegetarian (including vegan) and pescatarian diets may be linked to a lower risk of coronary heart disease than diets that include meat, a large new study suggests.
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Steroids help preterm babies and mums
13 September 2019
Two common forms of a life-saving steroid treatment for preterm babies have been shown to be equally effective and safe in a large New Zealand-Australian clinical trial – though the cheaper one may have a slight advantage.
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It’s not the economy, stupid, it’s the suicide rate
10 September 2019
Opinion: Professor Robert MacCulloch discusses New Zealand’s happiness paradox.
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Calls to regulate fast food in ‘Heart Attack Alley’
10 September 2019
Opinion: The fast food density of a West Auckland road is a barrier to young people making healthy eating choices. Sarah Gerritsen and Michele Eickstaedt explain.
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Vaping helps smokers quit
10 September 2019
New evidence from a large New Zealand vaping study suggests that hundreds of thousands more smokers worldwide could successfully quit the killer habit if they used nicotine-containing e-cigarettes (vapes) together with nicotine patches.
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Protecting the bones and muscles of children with cerebral palsy
9 September 2019
Researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) talk about their potentially life-changing research into cerebral palsy.
