A survey of all the health-related research published by New Zealand researchers between 2005 and 2009 shows that New Zealand research is punching above its weight.
Christchurch doctor and researcher Associate Professor Suetonia Palmer has compiled the first definitive summary of the best and safest treatments for kidney disease and diabetes patients.
Pacific PhD student Alana McCambridge’s HRC-funded research into a novel brain stimulation technique shows promise for helping rehabilitate patients with impaired arm co-ordination and control following a stroke.
Otago pharmacist Dr Shakila Rizwan is one of nine up-in-coming researchers to receive an Emerging Researcher First Grant in the HRC’s 2015 funding round. Read about her plans to develop nose-to-brain drug delivery for epilepsy patients.
A new feasbility study announced today will determine if a weight management programme delivered throughout New Zealand rugby clubs could help to curb the nation’s growing obesity problem.
The HRC recently co-hosted a Joint Commission workshop in Auckland for the New Zealand–China Strategic Research Alliance, with non-communicable diseases hot on the agenda.