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Winter 2016 [PDF230KB]
- Medical students creating asthma resources for whānau
- Bringing Māori history of Ōtautahi-Christchurch to life
- Christchurch educator: 'extraordinary Māori talent'
- Geneticist and keen sportsman to lead big research department
- Improving medicine safety from Christchurch
- Couple's generosity enables ongoing genetic research
- Longitudinal study funded to continue policy-informing work
- New leader for longitudinal study
Summer 2016 [PDF 288KB]
- Christchurch in NASA Mars project role
- Preparing for future disease epidemics
- Revolutionising heart disease diagnosis
- Contact between children monitored in world-first infection study
- Helping train young Pacific doctors
- Leading scientist celebrated
- First study of South Island Pasifika heart health
Spring 2015
- Christchurch teacher named best in the country
- Making sense of genetic information
- Tackling bowel cancer from screening to surgery
- Heart Foundation supports Christchurch research
- Taking medical students' learning high tech
- Medical students deliver safe sex messages to young inmates
- New treatment for painful osteoarthritis studied
- Christchurch academic in New York Times debate
Winter 2015
- Christchurch researchers take on global antibiotic-resistance threat
- Nurse studying health professionals' quake experiences
- Empowering sick children by asking their opinion
- Nurse helps families with disabled members look to the future
- Award-winning Māori curriculum adapted for nurses
- Helping people live better with chronic diseases
- Professor retiring from Christchurch Health and Development Study
Autumn 2015
- Freemasons researcher focuses on predicting future heart attacks
- Transforming orthopaedic surgery at Christchurch's medical technology hub
- Bioengineering students have big futures
- New head of Psychological Medicine
- Life-saving collaboration between medicine and engineering
- MARS project working on human-sized scanner
- Christchurch is a breast cancer research hub
- Christchurch Professor's long-standing relationship with Nepal
Summer 2015
- Summer student finds highest IBD rates in the world
- Cutting-edge Parkinson's disease research
- Christchurch campus' pivotal role in medical training
- Christchurch study improves Hep C treatment globally
- Self-destructing cells research could improve cancer treatment
- Minimising the impact of bipolar disease
Spring 2014
- Medical students educate on sexual health
- Cancer funding makes huge difference
- The breast cancer genetic puzzle
- Next generation joint replacements being developed
- Government backs world-first 3D scanner
- Veteran staff member retiring
- Health research funding for heart failure project
- Cantabrians lead the way in infectious disease research
Winter 2014
- Young doctor wants to contribute to advances in medicine
- Community's important role in earthquake resilience
- Christchurch geneticists get access to tiny, super DNA tester
- Crucial funding welcomed
- Technology aids health professionals' learning
- Exciting start for new Canterbury Medical Research Foundation boss
Autumn 2014
- Searching for ways to ease children's pain
- Christchurch heart disease test proven to save lives
- Clinical research centre celebrates milestone – and success, thanks to you
- Global partnership for ground-breaking research group
- Maori focus in Christchurch medical education
Summer 2014
- Orthopaedic Surgeon Tackling Weighty Issue
- New Heart Treatment Trialled
- Easing Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Bugs and Bowel Cancer
- New Head of Postgraduate Nursing Centre
Spring 2013
- Medical professionals act up – in a positive way
- More women injured in quakes
- Recovering from food addiction
- Public Health head practises health living
- Māori Institute's innovation awarded
- Legionnaires' disease more common than once thought
- Improving the treatment and experience for dialysis patients
- Chlorine bleach key in disease?
June 2013
- Teaching - Lecturer sings for his students
- People - A musician and medical educator
- Awards - Practical help for kidney patients
- Research - HRC funds practical Christchurch research
May 2011
- Awards - Heartening research into genes
- Research - Kiwifruit better than supplements
- Teaching - Students praised in quake wake
- People - Luthiery great stress relief
- People - New Chair in Public Health
December 2010
- Research - Study helps smokers stub it out
- Teaching - Professionalism critical part of medical education
- People - New Head of Department for Medicine
- Awards - Distinguished Research Medal
- Innovations - New X-Ray machine could save lives
September 2009
- Canterbury Study Into Health and Aging
- Grafton bridge Suicide Research Proves Barrier's Effectiveness
- New Findings on Serious Heart Disease
- Young Scientist Investigates Cause of Heart Disease and Diabetes
February 2009
- Defective Gene Puts Middle-aged Males at Risk
- Distinguished Research Medal Awarded to Christchurch Cardiologist
- Volunteers Keen to Learn About Research Studies
- How White Blood Cells Beat Bacterial Infection
August 2008
- Health Impacts of Winter Air Pollution
- Thick Melanoma: The Problem Continues
- Progress in Developing New and Faster TB Breath Test
February 2008
- Needle in a Haystack. Tracking Down Rare Conditions.
- Young Adults in Denial About Alcohol Abuse
- Record Grants for Health Research
- Top International Research Ratings
August 2007
- International Collaboration Benefits Cancer Research
- Caesarians and Post-natal Depression
- Dr Rebecca Roberts: Distinguished Research Scientist
- Beating Bowel Cancer by Computer
February 2007
- Drink and depression: Is simultaneous therapy the answer?
- Resistin, obesity and surviving heart attack
- Investigating the role bleach plays in combating infections.
August 2006
- Participants Needed for NZ's Biggest MS Study
- Testing Breath for Severe Lung Infections
- Unravelling the Role of Hormones in Heart Failure
- Compounds from Vegetables Attack Cancer Cells
February 2006
- Suicide Prevention is Working
- How Should Doctors Dress?
- Domestic Violence and Mental Health
- The Net of Discovery
August 2005
- Investigating Links between Genes and Medication
- Health Research Open Day
- Researching the Impact of Free Radicals and Disease
- New Results on Antibiotic Resistance in the Community
January 2005
- New Questions about Virus Risk and Breast Cancer
- Funding Boost from Canterbury Medical Research Foundation
- Eye Movements Help Understanding of Brain Injury
- Youth Depression and Bipolar Disorder
June 2004
- A Career in Medicial Research
- New Complementary and Alternative Medicine Website
- Children's Cancer Research
- Improving Treatment for Breast Cancer
August 2003
- Medical Research and the Christchurch Community
- Open Day at the School .... Latest Research
- How Genetics Help Determine the Best Medication
- The Changing Face of Medical Research
December 2003
- Volunteers Wanted
- New Professor will benefit Mothers and Unborn Babies
- Health Research Council Boost Medical Research
- Researching our Most Common Cancer