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All the latest news and media releases from the Health Research Council.
  • Funding outcomes for 2012/2013

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    Over the course of a year, the HRC typically offers in excess of 30 different funding opportunities, including sporadically released Requests for Proposals.

  • Geneva gene researcher back for Massey graduation

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    Auckland scientist and HRC Māori Health Research PhD recipient, Dr Chris Rodley, travelled a long way to pick up his PhD at the first of six Massey University graduation ceremonies in Tak

  • Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership announced

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    A Request for Proposals has been released for a joint initiative that will fund a number of research projects investigating rheumatic fever in New Zealand.
  • Viagra clinical trial for at-risk pregnant mums

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    The world's first clinical trial treating pregnant mums carrying babies struggling to grow in the womb with Sildenafil (Viagra) will soon get underway with funding from the HRC and Gravida.
  • Supporting whānau bereaved by suicide

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    Drs Tepora Emery and Candy Cookson Cox have delved into Te Arawa’s ancestral history to help develop a suicide ‘postvention’ tool that can support whānau who have lost loved ones to suicide.
  • New partnership projects tackle major health challenges

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    The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) has offered more than $650,000 in funding for four research partnership projects that will benefit New Zealand’s health care services in the sh

  • Low-cost home alterations prevent falls

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    Falls in the home could be reduced by a quarter according to the results of a new HRC-funded study just published online in top international medical journal The Lancet.

  • Coalition to identify potential vaccines for rheumatic fever

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    The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) has announced the funding of a trans-Tasman research coalition to accelerate the development of a vaccine against Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infect