Press Release – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Funding for heart and gut research at Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Research into heart and gut disease at Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has received a significant boost with recent funding from the New Zealand Health Research Council (HRC). Read more »
Press Release – Every Life Research Unit
Baroness Ilora Finlay and her colleague Robert Preston will debate Maryan Street, Lectretia Seales’ lawyer Andrew Butler, and Professor Andrew Geddis at an event in Parliament on Wednesday, 28 June. Read more »
Press Release – Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust
Assessing the health needs of Whānau in West Auckland
A report on the health needs of West Auckland has revealed Whānau Centre delivers services to a young, high needs population who are frequent users of hospital emergency departments and mental health services. Read more »
Press Release – Make Lemonade
Far North imoko health service honoured with award
June 27, 2017
One of New Zealand’s leading public health volunteer charity organisations, imoko, has been honoured for its services to the community. Read more »
Press Release – Auckland District Health Board
A+ TRUST LAUNCHES ‘MAKE A WILL’ WEEK
26 -29 June 2017
The A+ Trust, which is the official fundraising arm for Auckland DHB’s adult services, is encouraging people to write their will or if they already have one, to update it. Read more »
Press Release – University of Auckland
Study seeking to develop and protect Māori end-of-life care
A three-year study by the University of Auckland will seek to discover and strengthen Māori traditional end-of-life care practices to protect them for the future; this will have benefits for whānau carers, iwi and the health and palliative care sectors. Read more »
Press Release – Menstruation Matters
The event ‘Menstruation Matters’ has received well over 1,000 donated products. The public disgust may continue against the art piece “An Expensive Habit,” however, many people are still struggling to access menstruation products. Read more »
Press Release – Dementia Auckland
When 17-year-old Blake Nicholson was just six-years-old he lost his grandmother to dementia, something he did not fully understand at the time, but the sadness that surrounded his family is a memory he still carries with him today. Read more »
Press Release – Auckland District Health Board
Auckland DHB welcomes the inaugural New Zealand Health Research Strategy, which sets a vision of creating a world-leading health research and innovation system by 2027. Read more »
Press Release – Great Things
Music Therapy Week 2017: Finding Your Voice
1-9 July
Music Therapy New Zealand is shining a light on the life-changing impact of music therapy during our second annual Music Therapy Week, running from 1-9 July. As well as celebrating the work of our therapists around the country, we invite people to consider music therapy as a career. Read more »
Press Release – Head and Neck Cancer Survivors’ Support Network
New head and neck cancer initiative
Head and neck cancer is the “most unkindest cut of all” according to patients who have been through this disabling and disfiguring disease. And yet unlike breast and prostate cancer there has been no nationwide support for this cancer – until now. Read more »
Press Release – Medicines New Zealand
NZ rolls out red carpet for inventor of world’s first cancer vaccine.
Pioneering Australian researcher and 2006 Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer, is paying a short visit to New Zealand this week. Read more »
Press Release – Auckland University
A leading child health and obesity expert is warning babies are being weaned into a high sugar diet from as young as four months old – and the problem is being unheeded by health officials. Read more »
Press Release – DRC
DRC NZ Launches Sweet Friends – sweetfriends.co.nz
For sugar free alternatives using Xylitol that sweeten & protect your teeth
Auckland, June, 2017: DRC NZ is announcing the release of their new website Sweet Friends. Read more »
Press Release – Mental Health Foundation
15 June 2017
Youth project launches to help end mental illness discrimination in New Zealand
One year after Lucy McSweeney took part in the Mental Health Foundation’s social change programme, POD (Point of Difference), the 21-year-old was standing on the steps of Parliament to present her petition. Read more »
Press Release – Massey University
Two health researchers from Massey University’s College of Health have been awarded more than $6 million in the latest round of funding from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC), targeting occupational disease in New Zealand as well as international alcohol policy and its impact. Read more »
Press Release – Waitemata District Health Board
Supreme Court Decision – “a Win for Patient Health”
Waitemata District Health Board welcomes today’s decision in the Supreme Court to uphold its smokefree policy. Read more »
Press Release – Northland DHB
Second Chance At Life Thanks to Kidney Conversations
It is essential for people suffering kidney failure to talk to their whānau and spread awareness that they will need a kidney donated to them at some point.
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Press Release – University of Auckland
New University of Auckland research has found that women who go to sleep on their back in the last three months of pregnancy are almost four times more likely to experience a stillbirth. Read more »
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