Today the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) announced $1.5 million in funding to emerging Māori health researchers as part of its 2014 Career Development Awards programme.
Professor Brian Darlow of the University of Otago, Christchurch, has found that although people born weighing less than 1500gm tend to be more socially isolated and achieve less academically, they are as happy with their quality of life as peers.
HRC Board member Suzanne Snively has won the 2013 Wellingtonian of the Year Award from a strong list of category winners at The Dominion Post-sponsored awards.
A new study on the socioeconomic outcomes for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) has found those not covered by ACC had their income drop by 45 per cent 30 months after the injury, whereas t
The HRC extends its warmest congratulatons to Professor Shanthi Ameratunga, the 2013 recipient of the Injury Prevention Network Te Manaia Leadership Award.
Former HRC Board member, Distinguished Professor Jane Harding from The University of Auckland, is to be awarded the Howard Williams Medal for 2014 at the Royal College of Physicians Congress in Auckland next May.
Nearly a third of pregnant Māori and non-Māori women report sleeping less than six hours in late stages of pregnancy, an HRC-funded study by Massey University sleep scientists has concluded.