Breadcrumbs List.
Future of health and wellbeing
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Can viewing art reduce stress?
29 September 2021
There's evidence that looking at paintings can reduce stress and anxiety. A researcher wants to know if this phenomenon can help surgery patients heal.
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The 150-year-old mystery disease killing two New Zealanders a week
29 April 2021
New Zealand has one of the world’s worst rates of a fatal brain disease. Now, scientists hunting rogue genes hope to unravel the 150-year-old mystery of what triggers the disease and how to find a cure.
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Who should get to be a doctor?
28 October 2020
Professor Papaarangi Reid on why targeted admission schemes to medical schools are a matter of life and death.
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Rural home for cutting edge research centre
17 September 2020
Regional New Zealand is home to a leading medical imaging research centre tackling health inequities.
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The first 1,000 days of dinner
25 May 2020
Researchers have produced a snapshot of what our infants are eating. The research holds clues to how Aotearoa’s children have become the second most obese in the world and what we might do about it.
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Real life tricorder screens skin cancers
21 April 2020
More New Zealanders die from skin cancers each year than on our roads. A real 'tricorder' aims to cut that death toll.
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'Crazy' idea leads to brain disease breakthrough
21 April 2020
How a hunch led to a new way to grow human brain cells to investigate an array of challenging disorders.
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Faster recovery from cancer surgery
21 April 2020
A clever device invented here is reducing the recovery time for people who have had surgery for bowel cancer. This saves millions of dollars but more importantly patients are in much better shape to resume their lives.
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Can you trust a robot?
21 April 2020
Robot caregivers can help maintain independence as we age, but the trick is getting humans to trust them.
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Psychedelics on trip back from fringe
21 April 2020
LSD and ketamine are illegal drugs. They also hold new hope for people with serious depression and addictions resistant to current therapy.