Stabilising blood sugar levels in newborns with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, appears to prevent brain damage, according to the first study of its kind.
Our Explorer Grants provide seed support for transformative research ideas at an early stage, before an application for greater investment through standard funding mechanisms.
The largest clinical trial ever conducted exclusively in New Zealand intensive care units has not found any safety concerns with using saline as fluid therapy for intensive care patients.
University of Otago researchers have published the first direct evidence that kisspeptin neurons generate the hormone pulses which are crucial to normal reproductive functioning.
Government changes announced today to the International Relationships Fund are designed to better support high-quality international science collaborations.
Today we mark our 25th anniversary – and what a 25 years it has been. New Zealand has every reason to be proud of its health research, and its health researchers.
Two HRC-funded studies published in The British Medical Journal this week conclude that increasing calcium intake is unlikely to improve bone health or prevent fractures in older people.