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03 Oct 2023
Call for single gender hospital rooms to protect human rights
The practice of men and women sharing hospital rooms violates human rights and s...
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21 Jul 2023
Updated informed consent statement to be introduced by Aotearoa’s two medical schools
A new informed consent statement for medical students in clinical placements wil...
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29 May 2023
Study results prompt call for medicinal cannabis policy evaluation
A New Zealand study into the therapeutic benefits of cannabis has added to the g...
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22 Nov 2021
Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022
Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of...
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05 Nov 2021
5 November 2021 New postgraduate research opportunity – Māori frameworks for responsible innovation
AgResearch is offering a scholarship for a postgraduate student to contribute to...
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27 Jul 2021
27 July 2021, Otago proud to pledge to openness in animal research
The University of Otago is proud to be an inaugural signatory of an agreement wh...
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25 Feb 2021
Time to break barriers to human embryo research – Otago academic
The law surrounding human embryo research in New Zealand is a “classic example o...
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01 Apr 2020
1 April 2020, PPE an ‘ethical imperative’ for front-line health workers – Otago ethicist
Personal protective equipment for front-line health workers is an ethical impera...
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23 Jan 2020
Cat Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize
Caitlin Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize
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17 Jul 2019
Otago researchers call for gender binary in elite sports to be abandoned to cater for trans-athletes
Otago researchers call for gender binary in elite sports to be abandoned to cate...
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14 Mar 2019
Otago bioethicist adds voice to global plea for moratorium on heritable genome editing
A University of Otago bioethicist has added his voice to a global plea for a mor...
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11 Mar 2019
Tribute to Barry Smith
Tribute to Barry Smith