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In many fields New Zealand research teams are among world leaders. Some of the achievements of research funded by the HRC include:
- Discovering that certain steroids given to mothers in premature labour prevent the death of their babies from breathing problems, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
- Developing new treatments to improve outcomes following strokes.
- Designing more effective anti-cancer drugs.
- Discovering how new brain cells migrate through the brain, a finding which opens the way for new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
- Significantly reducing the rate of cot death by encouraging parents to put babies to sleep on their backs.
- Understanding the causes of youth suicide and developing effective prevention strategies.
- Developing ways to reduce child pedestrian injuries and motorcycle crashes.
- Reducing asthma deaths, identifying causes and improving asthma management.
Follow the link to HRC fact sheets, to find out more about some of the research projects funded by the HRC.
HRC fact sheets
Last Updated : 09 April 2008 12:34:03.
