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The fertility puzzle: what NZ researchers now know
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 1:46 pm | Health Research Council
About 25 per cent of New Zealand couples who are wanting to conceive may experience infertility or seek medical help. But thanks to a series of discoveries funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, new light is being shed on the mechanisms ... More >>
Using VR & Neuroeconomics to Find Out What Makes Us Tick
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 10:01 am | Health Research Council
Entering a multi-sensory virtual reality environment that measures reactions such as heart rate and sweat, might be the key to developing more effective preventive healthcare measures for New Zealanders. More >>
Research helps unlock better immune response to vaccines
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 12:34 pm | Health Research Council
New Zealand researchers have developed a promising vaccine ‘adjuvant’ which could help the body mount a more effective immune response to vaccines, with potentially fewer side-effects. More >>
Embedding cultural practices into mental health services
Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 2:33 pm | Health Research Council
Despite growing evidence for the role of culturally-centred programmes in addressing mental health needs, few programmes have been embedded into practice, says one researcher who hopes to change all that. More >>
NZ’s world-leading move in assessing chest pain
Monday, 20 November 2017, 12:57 pm | Health Research Council
A new study has found that protocols implemented across New Zealand’s emergency departments are helping rule out a heart attack in patients, a lot sooner. More >>
New Approach to Mental Health of Pasifika Youth Offenders
Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 8:28 am | Health Research Council
The mental health of Pasifika youth offenders is about to be uniquely examined from a Pasifika worldview, looking at associations with culture, family and spirituality, as well as links between mental health and reoffending. More >>
Threat of Antibiotic Resistance Worse for Māori
Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 8:25 am | Health Research Council
A University of Otago PhD student is doing his bit to curb antibiotic resistance and subsequently reduce the threat of infectious disease among Māori communities. More >>
Can 'Live Coaching' of Parents Help Behaviour Problems?
Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 8:23 am | Health Research Council
Can conduct problems in children be resolved with parents wearing an earpiece and being coached by an expert on what to say to their child? More >>
Programme to analyse Havelock North’s water gastro outbreak
Monday, 18 September 2017, 9:29 am | Health Research Council
A new programme will carry out an in-depth analysis of the unprecedented water supply outbreak in Havelock North last August where more than 5000 people were infected with the bacteria Campylobacter . More >>
$1m to help Pacific prediabetes epidemic
Thursday, 31 August 2017, 10:13 am | Health Research Council
A new study will help empower Pacific communities to tackle the alarmingly high rate of prediabetes in Pacific youth and adults as part of the government’s push to improve the management of long-term health conditions in New Zealand. Massey University ... More >>
New strategy firmly backs NZ’s health research workforce
Thursday, 22 June 2017, 11:58 am | Health Research Council
New Zealand’s first health research strategy will help nurture and grow a strong health research workforce that can provide solutions to New Zealand’s unique health challenges, says Dr Tania Pocock, Acting Chief Executive at the Health Research Council ... More >>
Sleep problems focus of new study on Kiwi kids with autism
Monday, 22 May 2017, 12:34 pm | Health Research Council
New research will look at developing effective treatments for sleep problems that affect the growing number of New Zealand children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). More >>
Sleep problems focus of new study on Kiwi kids with autism
Monday, 22 May 2017, 8:57 am | Health Research Council
New research will look at developing effective treatments for sleep problems that affect the growing number of New Zealand children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). More >>
$2m for Māori and Pacific youth mental health research
Monday, 24 April 2017, 11:05 am | Health Research Council
New Zealand has joined an alliance of the world’s biggest public research funding agencies to provide new research opportunities that target chronic diseases, starting with mental health. More >>
Study to develop faster detection of antibiotic resistance
Monday, 10 April 2017, 9:07 am | Health Research Council
New Zealand researchers are about to develop a radical new way of helping doctors detect antibiotic resistance faster that could save patients’ lives and change the way antibiotics are used around the world. More >>
Study improves prediction of movement recovery
Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 1:24 pm | Health Research Council
Kiwi researchers have developed a new and simple process that is helping therapists accurately predict how well their patients will regain the use of their hands and arms after a stroke. Associate Professor Cathy Stinear and her team at the University ... More >>
$1.6 million study to validate new diabetes programme
Wednesday, 15 March 2017, 4:04 pm | Health Research Council
The New Zealand Health Research Council (NZHRC) has injected $1.6 million into a research project to study an innovative self-management programme for people with pre-diabetes and diabetes. More >>
Fewer deaths in ED when length of stay reduced
Monday, 21 November 2016, 9:43 am | Health Research Council
New Zealand’s six-hour target for the time people stay in hospital emergency departments has been associated with hundreds fewer patients dying, according to new research. More >>
Neighbourhoods could hold key to getting kids more active
Monday, 31 October 2016, 10:36 am | Health Research Council
Prising children away from the couch and their electronic devices is an all too common challenge for many parents. But a new study aims to find out if certain changes to our neighbourhoods could encourage children to be more physically active – and ... More >>
Study to examine traditional Māori herbal medicines
Monday, 31 October 2016, 10:34 am | Health Research Council
Plant and food biologist Dr Jonni Koia (Tainui, Ngati Whawhākia) is returning to New Zealand after many years across the ditch to investigate the potential of traditional Māori herbal medicines to help combat type-2 diabetes. More >>
