Monday, 19 April 2010The University of Otago has established a further professorial position to advance research aimed at improving health in under-resourced countries, thanks to a generous gift by a Dunedin couple. A function to celebrate the
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Efforts to reduce smoking in New Zealand have been undermined since 2001 by increased tobacco affordability due to increased average incomes and a failure to raise tobacco taxes above inflation, according to researchers from the University of Otago,
Tuesday, 15 June 2010Many people may have the wrong ethnicity recorded in their health records, according to a new study by Professor Pauline Norris, Dr Simon Horsburgh and students from the School of Pharmacy, University of Otago. The study found
Friday 16 April 2010 2:57pmThe KD Kirkby Trust, which is a long time benefactor of Cure Kids, has made a $45,000 grant to provide vital equipment for a world class zebrafish facility at the University of Otago, taking its support for medical
Tuesday 18 May 2010 2:57pmBy Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg Many universities around the world were deliberately established away from cities or other communities. The word “campus”, which was first used in its modern sense at Princeton,
Monday 18 October 2010 12:56pmLeading international scholar in medical law and ethics Associate Professor Colin Gavaghan will be the first New Zealand Law Foundation–sponsored Director in Emerging Technologies at the University of Otago Faculty of
Despite the passing of the Smoke-free Environments Act in 1990 restricting advertising and sponsorship of tobacco, tobacco companies are still targeting women with their marketing according to a team of researchers from the University of Otago,
An editorial in today’s New Zealand Medical Journal describes the recent Māori Affairs Select Committee report on tobacco as bold and visionary.
Professor Iain Lamont takes to ONE News about synthesising a living cell and implications of this research.
Friday, 11 June 2010The University of Otago's Centre for International Health is joining a major global trial studying the effectiveness of a new treatment for latent tuberculosis (TB) that could help to eliminate the disease worldwide. Centre