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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Tribute to Barry Smith
Monday, 11 March 2019 8:20am
Tribute to Barry Smith
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.
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.
Alysha Mckeeman wins ANZCCART 2018 essay prize
Tuesday, 20 November 2018 11:04am
Alysha Mckeeman wins ANZCCART 2018 essay competition.
DSM's palliative care education in the spotlight
Tuesday, 3 July 2018 2:48pm
Lis Latta
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.
