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A world-first study by Massey University researchers is investigating how poor sleep affects body size.

Researchers from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute have accurately mapped the patterns of abnormal gastric electrical activity that occurs during gastroparesis.

Request for Proposals | Pre-notification. Read more in the HRC Special Update.

Approval has been granted for an anticancer "stealth" drug invented in New Zealand to move forward to human clinical trials.

New Zealand researchers aim to shed light on what underlies obesity.

The HRC, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research recently signed a trilateral letter of intent to improve research capacity in Indigenous peoples’ health.

The persistent use of cannabis before age 18 has been linked to lasting harm to intelligence, according to the latest research from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Study.

Four projects have been offered HRC funding for research that will improve health delivery in New Zealand.