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,
A large study of six communities affected by the 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes has found that marae have played – and continue to play – a leadership role in the rebuild and recovery of th
A new Request for Proposals (RFP) will be released this month to fund a piece of research that will investigate pertussis (whooping cough) booster immunisation in pregnancy.