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University of Otago honours Chemistry research leader
Thursday, 23 July 2015, 10:15 am | University of Otago
University of Otago honours Chemistry research leader Professor Sally Brooker, an internationally leading inorganic chemistry researcher who designs and creates innovative molecules that could underpin future technologies, is the latest recipient of the ... More >>
Researchers devise new way to monitor‘health of ice shelves
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 9:37 am | University of Otago
Tuesday 21 July 2015 Otago researchers devise new way to monitor ‘health’ of ice shelves More >>
How bacteria sweet-talk their way into plants
Thursday, 9 July 2015, 10:46 am | University of Otago
Thursday 9 July 2015 Researchers discover how bacteria sweet-talk their way into plants A University of Otago researcher is part of an international team of scientists that has discovered how legumes, which include important agricultural species such ... More >>
Rats that get regular exercise are more productive
Friday, 3 July 2015, 12:26 pm | University of Otago
Regular exercise may help keep you on top of your to-do list at work, latest University of Otago research suggests. More >>
Christchurch Māori health researcher on HRC board
Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 3:16 pm | University of Otago
Associate Professor Suzanne Pitama (Ngāti Kahungunu) from the University of Otago, Christchurch has been appointed to the Health Research Council’s Board and to the position of Chair on its Māori Health Committee, replacing Professor Linda Tuhiwai ... More >>
Long-acting reversible contraceptives for youths advocated
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 11:55 am | University of Otago
Tuesday 30 June 2015 Long-acting reversible contraceptives for adolescents advocated Senior lecturers in bioethics, and obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Otago have called for a free, universal LARC (long-acting reversible contraceptive) ... More >>
NZ children still suffer rickets from lack of Vitamin D
Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 9:30 am | University of Otago
Vitamin D deficiency continues to cause rickets in young New Zealanders, new University of Otago research has found. The researchers say that their finding suggests that at-risk mothers and children should be better targeted for Vitamin D supplementation. ... More >>
Chemicals and cancer
Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 4:23 pm | University of Otago
Mixtures of common chemicals used in our environment may act in concert with each other in the human body to cause the development of cancer. This is the overall finding of ground-breaking new research by an international task force that included New ... More >>
Self-management techniques helping suicidal people
Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 10:00 am | University of Otago
Self-management techniques need to be more widely acknowledged by mental health professionals as an option to help people who felt suicidal and better support provided to help them develop their own self-management strategies, according to new University of ... More >>
National Poisons Centre continues to deliver Poisonsline
Friday, 19 June 2015, 12:44 pm | University of Otago
National Poisons Centre continues to deliver Poisonsline Friday 19 June 2015 Staff at the National Poisons Centre based at the University of Otago are delighted to learn that the Ministry of Health has chosen Homecare Medical as the preferred provider ... More >>
Contraception needed for women at risk
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 10:33 am | University of Otago
Women with near-fatal illnesses during pregnancy have been leaving New Zealand hospitals without the contraception that could prevent future serious harm to their health, a study by University of Otago, Wellington, has found. More >>
Finding new ways to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Monday, 8 June 2015, 10:04 am | University of Otago
Christchurch-based scientists have been awarded $4.8 million in Health Research Council (HRC) funding to find new ways to diagnose and treat bacterial infections. More >>
Ganges river dolphin distant cousin of ancient NZ one
Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 3:50 pm | University of Otago
Tuesday 2 June 2015 Ganges river dolphin distant cousin of ancient New Zealand one A newly described ancient marine dolphin fossil from the Waitaki region is of the same superfamily as the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to University ... More >>
Interconnecting distant NZ windfarms could be boon for grid
Wednesday, 27 May 2015, 10:23 am | University of Otago
Wednesday 27 May 2015 Interconnecting distant NZ windfarms could be boon for grid Variable winds—even in New Zealand’s most blustery locations—make it difficult for windfarms to contribute more fully to the national grid, but now University of ... More >>
Christchurch doctor finds much-needed answers
Friday, 22 May 2015, 11:02 am | University of Otago
The first definitive summary of the best and safest treatments for kidney disease and diabetes patients has been compiled by Christchurch doctor and researcher Associate Professor Suetonia Palmer. More >>
Legal issues at stake in Lecretia Seales’ court case probed
Friday, 22 May 2015, 10:25 am | University of Otago
There is a very strong case that existing New Zealand law does not preclude a doctor providing a mentally competent, terminally ill patient with the means to achieve a peaceful death, according to a University of Otago law professor and a US lawyer ... More >>
Otago appoints first Professor of Earthquake Science
Wednesday, 20 May 2015, 12:27 pm | University of Otago
A leading New Zealand seismologist has been appointed as the University of Otago’s inaugural Professor of Earthquake Science. More >>
New Zealand’s maternity statistics should be better – expert
Wednesday, 20 May 2015, 9:42 am | University of Otago
New Zealand’s maternity statistics should be better – expert New Zealand should be one of the safest places in the world to give birth with maternity statistics that are as good as or better than most other countries, says Professor Stacie Geller, ... More >>
Otago key partner in Māori Centre of Research Excellence
Friday, 8 May 2015, 1:31 pm | University of Otago
riday 8 May 2015 Otago key partner in Māori Centre of Research Excellence University of Otago researchers are set to make key contributions to Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE), which has been selected ... More >>
High rate of harassment of our MPs, their staff and families
Friday, 8 May 2015, 9:49 am | University of Otago
Harassment of New Zealand politicians, their families and staff is ‘common and concerning’, according to new Otago University research. More >>
