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Major Health Research Funding Boost
Thursday, 3 June 2004, 9:04 am | University of Otago
Health research has been given a boost at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, with the funding of two research programmes and four projects by teams of researchers and clinicians. The results of the 2003 Health Research Council ... More >>
Turning Medical ‘Brain Drain’ To ‘Brain Gain’
Wednesday, 26 May 2004, 10:15 am | University of Otago
A University of Otago fellowship is helping to reverse the brain drain by offering incentives to attract medical graduates back to New Zealand following postgraduate overseas study. More >>
Alarming rates of chlamydia infection
Friday, 21 May 2004, 12:46 am | University of Otago
Alarming rates of chlamydia infection among pregnant NZ women Researchers call for routine testing of pregnant women More >>
First National Seminar On Issue Of Smacking
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 2:23 pm | University of Otago
The physical punishment of children is the focus of a seminar to be hosted by the University of Otago’s Children’s Issues Centre in Wellington next month. More >>
Otago Awards Honorary Doctorate To Vice-Chancellor
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 10:58 am | University of Otago
The University of Otago will this Saturday award the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws to Vice-Chancellor Dr Graeme Fogelberg in recognition of more than a decade of outstanding service to the University. More >>
NZ And Australian Perspectives On Depression
Monday, 10 May 2004, 12:33 am | University of Otago
More than 300 people attended a recent public lecture on depression at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago. Many more had to be turned away. This level of interest reflects a recent WHO report demonstrating that ... More >>
Outstanding Success For Health Sciences
Friday, 23 April 2004, 3:34 pm | University of Otago
Today's announcement of the Performance-Based Research Funding results provides a ringing endorsement of the outstanding international quality of Otago University's leading medical and biomedical researchers. More >>
Otago Wins PBRF Money Round
Friday, 23 April 2004, 3:31 pm | University of Otago
The University of Otago has been “resoundingly successful” in gaining more research funding through the Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF) scheme, an outcome that “reflects the true range of research excellence at Otago”, says University Vice-Chancellor ... More >>
Exploring Post-Lunch Dip Psychological Phenomena
Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 9:14 am | University of Otago
A wealth of topics ranging from why we have more road accidents after lunch to how we identify our potential reproductive partners will be explored during next week’s Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) at the University of Otago ... More >>
Advances In Understanding ‘Difficult’ Pregnancies
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 3:40 pm | University of Otago
Before the 1960’s knowledge of the intrauterine environment was like a black box, limiting clinical understanding, and monitoring of the fetus during pregnancy. Little was known about the fetus until after birth happened. More >>
Hepatitis C…A Sleeping Dragon
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 10:23 am | University of Otago
More than 25,000 people in New Zealand have hepatitis C and that figure is escalating by 1300 new infections a year. Dr Cheryl Brunton from the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, warns that there are going to be ... More >>
Second-Hand Smoking Increases Risk Of Adult Death
Monday, 5 April 2004, 11:09 am | University of Otago
Adults who have never smoked and who live with smokers have a 15 per cent higher risk of death than those living in a smoke-free household, says Dr Sarah Hill, lead author of a study conducted by the University of Otago’s Wellington School of Medicine ... More >>
Depression Are We Simply Medicalising Unhappiness?
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 9:53 am | University of Otago
It is estimated that 10% of New Zealanders will at some stage in their lives suffer an episode of depression. But Professor Roger Mulder from the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences is concerned that some of these people may be seeking ... More >>
Ethnic Gaps In Life Expectancy Closing
Tuesday, 30 March 2004, 3:36 pm | University of Otago
The latest life expectancy estimates released today by Statistics New Zealand suggest that Mäori life expectancy has started to increase again – after two decades of little or no improvement. More >>
Respected Academic Appointed To Senior Position
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 2:52 pm | University of Otago
Professor Geoff White, former Head of the Department of Psychology and an internationally-regarded researcher, has been named as Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Enterprise, at the University of Otago. He replaces Dr Ian Smith who steps down on 16 May. More >>
Parkinson’s DiseasesTo Grow As Population Ages
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 3:14 pm | University of Otago
The recently appointed chair of Parkinson’s Diseases at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, Professor Tim Anderson, says that with 80 new cases a year in Canterbury, and 1000 in total, the numbers with this ... More >>
Adding Iron To Oceans Not Effective - Study
Friday, 19 March 2004, 12:43 am | University of Otago
Iron fertilisation of microscopic plants in the surface ocean may not be the answer to removing excess “greenhouse gas” carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a paper published by Nature and released on-line yesterday. More >>
Biggest Ever Solar Flare Just Got Bigger
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 10:13 am | University of Otago
University of Otago physicists have shown that November's record-breaking solar explosion was much larger than its official estimate, thanks to innovative research using the upper atmosphere as a gigantic X-ray detector. Their findings have been accepted ... More >>
New Research Into Kidney Failure In Intensive Care
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 11:06 am | University of Otago
Kidney failure in intensive care units is a complex medical problem with up to 40% of patients in ICUs exposed to this life threatening condition, which has a mortality rate of at least 50%. More >>
Income & Ethnicity Both Critical In Health Funding
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 5:15 pm | University of Otago
Income And Ethnicity Both Critical In Health Funding: Study New research shows Mäori still dying younger -- regardless of income levels More >>
