The HRC, the Breast Cancer Research Trust and the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation have formed a joint research initiative to fund innovative research into breast cancer in New Zealand.
In this month's issue of Ethics Notes, Dr Nicola Atwool from Otago University discusses how ethical research allows children to participate not just as data providers but also as social actors capable of influencing how adults think.
An HRC-funded study led by University of Auckland Professor Ian Reid suggests that the widespread use of vitamin D to prevent osteoporosis in healthy adults is unneccessary.
University of Auckland PhD student Tom Lintern has built anatomical computer models of a baby’s head that can simulate the different motions generated from shaking associated with child abuse.
Congratulations to Dr Conroy Wong who has won the $20,000 Value of Medicines Award for his HRC-funded research into bronchiectasis, a debilitating lung disorder with very few effective treatments.
The HRC has awarded more than $750,000 for four research partnership projects that will help improve New Zealand's health care services in the short term.
A cheap and easy-to-administer dextrose gel should be used to treat low blood sugars in newborns, according to New Zealand research just published in the international medical journal,