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Study results prompt call for medicinal cannabis policy evaluation

Monday, 29 May 2023 1:45pm

A New Zealand study into the therapeutic benefits of cannabis has added to the growing body of evidence that it has positive effects on pain, sleeplessness and anxiety, researchers say.

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Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022

Monday, 22 November 2021 10:28am

Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of professor this year.

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New postgraduate research opportunity – Māori frameworks for responsible innovation

Friday, 5 November 2021 10:49am

AgResearch is offering a scholarship for a postgraduate student to contribute to advancing the use of Māori frameworks for ethical research.

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Otago proud to pledge to openness in animal research

Tuesday, 27 July 2021 8:31am

The University of Otago is proud to be an inaugural signatory of an agreement which pledges openness in animal research and teaching.

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Time to break barriers to human embryo research – Otago academic

Thursday, 25 February 2021 10:40am

The law surrounding human embryo research in New Zealand is a “classic example of regulatory failure” and is in urgent need of reform, a University of Otago academic argues.

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PPE an ‘ethical imperative’ for front-line health workers – Otago ethicist

Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:48am

Personal protective equipment for front-line health workers is an ethical imperative, University of Otago ethicist Dr Elizabeth Fenton says.

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Caitlin Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize

Thursday, 23 January 2020 4:44pm

Caitlin Morton-Burns from the University of Canterbury has won the ANZCCART 2019 essay prize

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Otago researchers call for gender binary in elite sports to be abandoned to cater for trans-athletes

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 10:50am

Existing gender categories in sport should perhaps be abandoned in favour of a more 'nuanced' approach in the new transgender era, University of Otago researchers say.

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Otago bioethicist adds voice to global plea for moratorium on heritable genome editing

Thursday, 14 March 2019 9:24am

A University of Otago bioethicist has added his voice to a global plea for a moratorium on heritable genome editing from a group of international scientists and ethicists in the wake of the recent Chinese experiment aiming to produce HIV immune children.

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Tribute to Barry Smith

Monday, 11 March 2019 8:20am

Tribute to Barry Smith

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Neil Picking interviewed on the philosophy of psychiatry and mental health

Monday, 11 February 2019 3:37pm

Neil Picking interviewed on the philosophy of psychiatry and mental health, by John Sadler.

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Otago bioethicists call for more robust system of ethical governance in human gene-editing

Monday, 28 January 2019 3:20pm

University of Otago bioethicists are calling for a more robust system of ethical governance in human gene-editing in the wake of the Chinese experiment aiming to produce HIV immune children.

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Alysha Mckeeman wins ANZCCART 2018 essay prize

Tuesday, 20 November 2018 11:04am

Alysha Mckeeman wins ANZCCART 2018 essay competition.

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DSM's palliative care education in the spotlight

Tuesday, 3 July 2018 2:48pm

Lis Latta

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A citizens' jury on euthanasia

Friday, 25 May 2018 3:21pm

A citizens’ jury on whether or not to legalise euthanasia and assisted dying in New Zealand resulted in two thirds of jurors supporting and one third opposing a law change.