30 Mar 2022
The price of keeping kids warm at night
The cost of heating a child’s bedroom through the night in a Wellington winter w...
18 Mar 2022
BBC shines spotlight on housing research
The work of housing and health researchers at the University of Otago, Wellingto...
09 Mar 2022
Alcohol Dependence Significantly Increases Suicide Risk – Otago Study
There are calls for changes to New Zealand’s national suicide prevention strateg...
04 Mar 2022
Nitrate levels in drinking water and bowel cancer
The formation of cancer-causing chemicals in the gut could be at the heart of un...
25 Feb 2022
Vaccination programme failing those with mental health and addiction issues
New Zealand’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out is failing to reach those with mental he...
03 Feb 2022
3 February 2022 Long-term cannabis use damages lungs, but in a different way from tobacco
Smoking cannabis leads to lung damage, but in a different way from tobacco, new...
01 Feb 2022
Urgent investment needed in deadly disease
Researchers are calling for urgent investment in the prevention of a devastating...
27 Jan 2022
Reimagining school uniforms
School uniforms need a radical redesign to better meet the needs of students, pa...
21 Jan 2022
Addressing inequities in cancer care
Three Otago researchers have secured significant grants for research aimed at ad...
13 Jan 2022
Call to report bottled water quality results on labels
Bottled water is often perceived as clean and free of contaminants compared to t...
21 Dec 2021
Discrimination placing LGBTIQ+ people at risk of homelessness
Discrimination in the housing market, as well as structural issues such as pover...
20 Dec 2021
‘Breakthrough’ Otago research confirms skin infections as a cause of rheumatic fever
University of Otago researchers have made a major breakthrough in further unders...