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New Zealand’s Missing Data Feature In Global Report On Eye Health
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 1:55 pm | University of Auckland
New Zealand needs more investment in eye health, a global report from The Lancet Global Health shows One of the report’s recommendations is for countries to collect data on eye health from national surveys to inform planning. New Zealand is among ... More >>
Scientists Retool Weight-loss Drug For Lifesaving Treatments In University Of Auckland Study
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 8:45 am | University of Auckland
A weight-loss drug used in New Zealand and around the world could be repurposed to prevent organ failure in patients in intensive care, research from the University of Auckland and Monash University in Australia shows. Orlistat, marketed in New Zealand ... More >>
Food Hardship Prevalent In Kiwi Kids’ Early Years
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 6:08 am | University of Auckland
The first New Zealand study to look at the effects of food hardship on pre-schoolers’ nutrition has found that nearly half of families struggle to access healthy food in their child’s first year of life and this can have a negative downstream impact ... More >>
Lessons From Lockdown: What Could We Do Better?
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 1:09 pm | University of Auckland
The 49 days of national lockdown in 2020 created stressful dilemmas between public compliance and personal responsibilities, a new study has found. People did pay attention to public health concerns but had to navigate competing moral imperatives and risk ... More >>
Helping Hand For The Class Of 2020
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 11:50 am | University of Auckland
Newly qualified teachers whose classroom experience was cut short because of last year’s Covid lockdowns can now apply for extra mentoring support. All first-year registered teachers employed in a teaching role in 2021 who weren’t able to complete ... More >>
Cutting Unneeded CT Scans, Radiation For Kids With Head Injuries
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 6:29 am | University of Auckland
New medical guidelines may reduce unnecessary CT scans, and the associated radiation, for children with head injuries. That’s according to Professor Stuart Dalziel, who’s the Cure Kids Chair of Child Health Research at the University of Auckland, ... More >>
Sugar Treatment Cuts Risks For Newborn Babies In NZ-Australia Trial
Friday, 29 January 2021, 9:33 am | University of Auckland
Rubbing sugar gel inside the mouths of newborn babies at risk of hypoglycaemia reduced their odds of developing the disorder, a four-year trial conducted in maternity hospitals across New Zealand and Australia has found. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2101/afcc09edb4c9d7c2bfc7.jpeg" ... More >>
Fireworks Dangerous In More Ways Than One
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 9:09 am | University of Auckland
Playing with a fireworks sparkler for just eight minutes is the equivalent of breathing a day’s air pollution and breaches safe levels, new research shows. Scientists measure air quality by the amount of particulate matter, known as PM10, in the air ... More >>
Pest-free Goal Won’t Be Achieved Without New And Better Tools
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 9:32 am | University of Auckland
New Zealand’s goal to become predator free by 2050 will remain an unrealised dream unless new technologies and advances in social engagement continue to be developed, researchers who first promoted it say. A team from the University of Auckland has ... More >>
Male Praying Mantis Fights To Avoid Being Eaten
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 12:59 pm | University of Auckland
Sexual reproduction in the insect world is often a risky business and never more so than when the risk of being eaten is high. But a new study on South African - or Springbok - praying mantids, commonly found in New Zealand after first being identified ... More >>
Pregnant Mums' Sleeping Position Can Cut Oxygen Flow To Her Unborn Child, Research Shows
Friday, 15 January 2021, 10:20 am | University of Auckland
Women who go to sleep on their back in late pregnancy are more likely to have stillbirths. Now, research from a University of Auckland-U.K. collaboration helps to explain why, showing a decreased supply of oxygen to the fetus. “Sleep on side when baby’s ... More >>
Manage Mental Health Early For Better Overall Health And Longer Life: Study
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 1:44 pm | University of Auckland
Poor mental health earlier in life leads to poor physical health in later life, according to a new study. A collaboration between the University of Auckland, the University of Michigan and Duke University in the US, the study investigated 50 years ... More >>
Child Poverty And Hospitalisation Study Gets Surprising Result
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 10:27 am | University of Auckland
Changes in income and movement in and out of poverty over time are only weakly associated with higher rates of child hospitalisation in New Zealand, according to a new University of Auckland study. Published today in PLOS ONE, the collaborative study led by Dr ... More >>
A Century Of Sexual Abuse Of New Zealand Women Analysed In Study
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 10:02 am | University of Auckland
A century of sexual abuse of women in New Zealand is analysed in a University of Auckland study. The newly-published research looks back as far as 1922 by analysing interviews with thousands of women about their lifetime experiences. The study indicates ... More >>
Biggest-ever Animal Has Special New Zealand Link, New Research Shows
Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 11:08 am | University of Auckland
New Zealand waters provide an important migratory route for the biggest animal to ever exist, the Antarctic blue whale, according to a study led by a University of Auckland scientist. Hydrophones, or underwater microphones, anchored at the bottom ... More >>
Auckland Scientist Models How Giant Dinosaurs Dispersed Seeds
Wednesday, 6 January 2021, 12:12 pm | University of Auckland
It’s an insight into ecosystems that existed more than 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. A new study from the University of Auckland looks at the animals’ roles in moving seeds from one place to another. Evidence from fossils ... More >>
World-first Research Uses Gut Bacteria To Improve Health Of Obese Teenagers
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 8:50 am | University of Auckland
New Zealand research has shown how gut bacteria from healthy, lean people can be used to improve the health of teenagers who are clinically obese. Obese Auckland teenagers who swallowed capsules of the gut bacteria of healthy peers reduced a condition ... More >>
University Of Auckland Study Centres Provide Opportunities For International Students
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 5:06 pm | University of Auckland
As part of its response to the Covid pandemic, which has left thousands of international students unable to enter Aotearoa New Zealand for study, the University of Auckland is launching a number of International Study Centres (ISC) around the world. These ... More >>
Almost 80% Of Drinks In Supermarkets Are Sugary, Fuelling Health Risks
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 3:27 pm | University of Auckland
Almost 80 percent of drinks in New Zealand supermarkets are sugary, swelling the nation’s health risks and indicating that industry self-regulation is failing, according to University of Auckland researchers. The study tracked drinks on New ... More >>
Whales May Be Struggling As Climate Change Impacts Feeding Grounds
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 9:25 am | University of Auckland
A new study has found that even a change in eating habits may not be enough for southern right whales to keep up their population recovery from whaling. Researchers from the Universities of Auckland and of Pretoria, South Africa, carried out research ... More >>
