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Reducing health risks on your daily commute
22 July 2019
Opinion: What are you getting out of your daily commute? Kim Dirks considers the implications of how we get from A to B and the effect our options have on well-being.
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Midlife career switch: reporter to researcher
22 July 2019
After nearly 25 years as a health journalist, Rajesh Kumar retrained as a public health researcher. He reflects on his experiences, and his master's thesis on barriers to becoming smokefree.
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Should pokies be funding your local kindy?
18 July 2019
Opinion: The community sector is being propped up by the proceeds of gambling. Professor Peter Adams says we need to find another way to fund our lifeblood organisations that's not profiting off people's misery.
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Will climate change create a more unjust world?
17 July 2019
As the Government shapes our climate policy, a University of Auckland researcher and paediatrician shares her hopes and fears with the NZ Herald.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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$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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
