Congratulations to Professor Ed Mitchell who has received the Howard Williams Medal from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians for his contributions to paediatrics and child health.
HRC-funded researcher Dr Lynette Sadleir from the University of Otago, Wellington, is part of an international team that have discovered a link between mutations to a single gene and a rare seizure and speech disorder.
HRC-funded researcher Associate Professor Chris Pemberton has won a University of Otago Innovation Proof of Concept grant to further develop his world-first test for predicting those at imminent risk of a heart attack.
Emerging Māori health researcher Jodi Porter has developed an iwi-specific framework to help gauge the wellbeing of one of her iwi, Ngai Tai in Tōrere.
As part of an HRC-funded project, local environmental group Te Roopu Taiao o Utakura has gathered important baseline data about the relationship between the health of local Māori and the water quality of Lake Ōmāpere and its only outlet the Utakura River.
The first results from the HRC funded BOOST-NZ study (Benefits of Oxygen Saturation Targeting) are in and they suggest that switching from lower to higher oxygen levels could help more extremely pr
Professor Garth Cooper and his diabetes research group at The University of Auckland have developed a new copper treatment that can restore diabetic patients' damaged hearts and other organs back to normal.
A new class of compound that acts on the kappa opioid receptors in the brain is offering hope as Wellington researchers look for anti-addiction drugs with fewer side effects.