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Image of person with head in their hands suffering from a migraine.

10 Jun 2025

No one-size-fits-all for migraine treatments - survey


About half of people with migraine disease turn to non-medication treatments in an attempt to ease their symptoms, new O...

Dr Pauline Dawson checks the heartbeat of Oranga Wahine Administrator Amy Wornin’s baby.

09 Jun 2025

Study to evaluate novel pop-up maternity clinic


The title of Dr Pauline Dawson’s study says it all – “How can I help?”

A 2009 excavation involving researchers from the University of Otago, at the SAC locality on Watom Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Photo credit: Dr Rebecca Kinaston

05 Jun 2025

Otago researchers help unlock ancient migration secrets


University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have helped bring clarity to the great migration of early Pacific...

30 May 2025

Wellington forum highlights Otago research impact


From health discoveries in space to the health of Hector’s dolphins, the Division of Health Sciences’ Research Innovatio...

30 May 2025

Genetics power breakthrough inflammatory arthritis study


The potential to prevent and treat a common type of inflammatory arthritis has been advanced thanks to a University of O...

An image of a woman taking a pill.

26 May 2025

Study reveals high rates of opioid use in NZ pregnancies


Aotearoa New Zealand has the third highest prevalence of prescribed opioid use during pregnancy in a new multi-national...

Joseph Balfe, who has been awarded a scholarship to study neuroscience at the University of Oxford, stands in the grounds of the University of Otago.

13 May 2025

Prestigious Oxford scholarship for Otago neuroscience graduate


Joseph Balfe has been awarded the prestigious Clarendon Scholarship to undertake his PhD in Psychiatry at the University...

Dr Solomon Gurmu Beka graduates today as Otago’s first Ethiopian Doctor of Aviation Medicine.

10 May 2025

Otago’s first Ethiopian Aviation Medicine PhD takes flight


After facing the realities of war and then being separated from his wife and young children, Dr Solomon Gurmu Beka gradu...

Sakiusa Baleivanualala working in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.

09 May 2025

Graduand fighting superbugs in the Pacific


Saki Baleivanualala didn’t just come to the University of Otago to study, he came here to learn, grow and give back.

A stock photo of a woman experiencing bowel pain.

08 May 2025

Global study charts growing health burden of IBD


A groundbreaking international study, with involvement from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has identified four d...

06 May 2025

Prime Minister’s prizes awarded to two Otago academics


Work on managing anxiety and managing viruses has resulted in two Otago academics receiving Prime Minister’s Science Pri...

30 Apr 2025

Links between height and health highlighted


Height is determined by thousands of signals in our genes. Three world experts on human growth, including Associate Prof...

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