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27 Feb 2025
Researchers call for end to futile CPR
To reduce unnecessary harm, staff in aged residential care facilities should not be forced to provide chest compressions...
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 should be prohibited, a group of academic...
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 will provide clarity and further protection...
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 growing body of evidence that it has posi...
22 Nov 2021
Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022
Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of professor this year.
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 advancing the use of Māori frameworks f...
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 which pledges openness in animal research...
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 of regulatory failure” and is in urgent n...
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 imperative, University of Otago ethicist Dr El...
23 Jan 2020
Cat Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize
Caitlin Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize
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 cater for trans-athletes
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 moratorium on heritable genome editing from...