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Intake of sugars not related to obesity levels
Friday, 16 May 2008, 1:44 pm | University of Otago
New research shows that New Zealanders’ current intake of sugars is not associated with being overweight or obese. More >>
Platypus genome mapping boon for researchers
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 9:53 am | University of Otago
In decoding the genome of the platypus, a team of researchers from the United States, Australia, England, Germany, Israel, Japan, Spain and New Zealand has revealed important information that will enhance our understanding of other mammals and may lead to ... More >>
Vehicle ads fail to provide pollution data
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 10:03 am | University of Otago
A study of vehicle advertisements in New Zealand magazines has found that they failed to provide adequate information about greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. This is despite public concern about global climate change and air pollution from ... More >>
Higher cancer mortality in Maori, Pacific people
Monday, 28 April 2008, 1:01 pm | University of Otago
Indigenous people from New Zealand and Hawaii have higher mortality rates for many cancers than Europeans in those countries according to a publication from the University of Otago, Christchurch. Culturally appropriate education on screening programmes, ... More >>
“People Power” focus for Foreign Policy School
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 4:51 pm | University of Otago
How much say should a nation’s citizens have on foreign policy issues such as wars waged in their name and trade agreements signed on their behalf? That’s a key question to be tackled at the upcoming 43rd Otago Foreign Policy School, titled “Power to ... More >>
Hydrogen sulphide study launched in Rotorua
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 9:56 am | University of Otago
Researchers from the University of Otago, Wellington, the University of California and Stanford University have started recruiting participants in Rotorua for the largest ever international study of the possible health effects of hydrogen sulphide gas. ... More >>
Otago success in inaugural funding round
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 5:09 pm | University of Otago
The University of Otago is delighted by its success in the inaugural round of the Encouraging and Supporting Innovation Fund, with at least six proposals involving Otago to receive funding. More >>
African ‘sniffer’ rats used to develop TB test
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 12:28 am | University of Otago
Health researchers from the University of Otago Christchurch are developing a unique breath test for tuberculosis (TB) – a disease that continues to kill more than two million people every year world-wide and is again becoming more prevalent in ... More >>
International award for suicide researcher
Monday, 10 March 2008, 10:32 am | University of Otago
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has awarded its 2008 Research Award to Associate Professor Annette Beautrais from the University of Otago, Christchurch in recognition of her contributions to suicide research. It will be presented at ... More >>
Otago Innovation succeeds with PreSeed
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 11:30 am | University of Otago
Otago Innovation, the University of Otago’s commercialisation arm, has secured Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST) funding worth nearly $3m over the next three years. More >>
The delayed introduction of unleaded petrol
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 10:19 am | University of Otago
Unleaded petrol became mandatory in New Zealand in 1996, but a newly published study led by the University of Otago, Wellington reveals there was a 20 year delay as a result of deliberate lobbying by the lead additives industry, poorly informed and ... More >>
Deliberate self harm higher in female adolescents
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 1:44 pm | University of Otago
The Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford says that adolescent self-harm is a significant and growing problem in many developed countries, with cases often never coming to the attention of clinicians and hospitals. More >>
Leaky buildings: the health effects?
Monday, 25 February 2008, 2:15 pm | University of Otago
The University of Otago’s Public Health Department in Wellington is for the first time drawing together experts from New Zealand and overseas to discuss the impacts of leaky buildings on health in two workshops. More >>
Otago appoints international health research head
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 3:02 pm | University of Otago
A gifted clinical epidemiologist has returned from frontline infectious disease research in Africa to head New Zealand’s first Centre for International Health. Philip Hill has been appointed as the University of Otago’s inaugural McAuley Professor of ... More >>
NZ heads Australia in e-govt responsiveness
Monday, 18 February 2008, 11:38 am | University of Otago
Central and local government agencies in New Zealand have fared better than their Australian counterparts in a University of Otago study of e-government responsiveness. More >>
New ways of treating mental illness
Monday, 18 February 2008, 9:35 am | University of Otago
A top visiting British Psychiatrist says that the treatment of mental illness is likely to rapidly progress in the next 15 to 20 years because of improved technology and knowledge of genetics . Professor David Nutt, University of Bristol, has recently ... More >>
Launch of NZ’s first Science Communication Centre
Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:43 am | University of Otago
New Zealand’s first Centre dedicated to the communication of science is being launched at the University of Otago on Thursday (21 February). More >>
Heart hormone crucial for skeletal growth
Friday, 8 February 2008, 9:55 am | University of Otago
Researchers at the University of Otago, Christchurch have broken new scientific ground with discoveries regarding a previously little understood heart hormone, showing how it is crucial for bone development and growth after birth. More >>
New insights into Māori early memory advantage
Friday, 8 February 2008, 12:52 am | University of Otago
New clues to why Māori adults tend to have the earliest childhood memories of any culture studied so far are being revealed by University of Otago research. More >>
Smoking gums implicate cannabis
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 9:17 am | University of Otago
Heavy cannabis smoking has been identified as a major cause of gum disease in a study involving researchers from the University of Otago, King’s College in London, Duke University and the University of North Carolina in the USA. More >>
