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All the latest news and media releases from the Health Research Council.
  • Dr Don Mackie to join the HRC on secondment

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    We are pleased to announce that Dr Don Mackie is joining the HRC from 25 July 2016, on a twelve month secondment.

  • Record $60m to support research projects

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    The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) today announced funding for a record 52 projects worth a combined total of $60 million – a 74 per cent dollar increase from last year.

  • Programme targets health of Māori women and their babies

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    Associate Professor Beverley Lawton has received one of nine new HRC programme research grants to help young pregnant Māori women and their children get the best care possible to improve their health and wellbeing.
  • HRC honours top Otago health researchers

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    The HRC has presented four researchers from Otago University with awards for an outstanding contribution to health research excellence, leadership, and impact.
  • New fund to support research into medicines usage in NZ

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    The new research partnership between PHARMAC and the HRC looks to answer questions that might not otherwise be asked, such as why don't some people get the full benefits of the medicines they take?
  • Kiwi researcher hits 1000 citation mark

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    Biomedical research published by Wellington-based researcher Professor Mike Berridge and his colleague An Tan has achieved the equivalent of a gold medal in scientific circles – it has been cited,

  • Trans-Tasman investment in ICU trials a huge success

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    The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group is estimated to have saved the New Zealand health care system well over $150 million per year over the past 10 years, and the lives of hundreds of New Zealanders.
  • Tūranga: new ways to reduce smoking

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    It will take radical, fresh ideas and new technology to break some New Zealanders of their smoking habit and for smoking prevalence to be less than the Government’s goal of five per cent in New Zealand by 2025.