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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.
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Jane Harding honoured for groundbreaking neonatal research
1 June 2020
World leading neonatologist Distinguished Professor Jane Harding has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours today.
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Tool lets people know their person 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
