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27 May 2024
HRC awards $3.7 million to Otago researchers
Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate, causing global concern....
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04 Apr 2024
First pharmacy prescriber workshop a success
The inaugural ‘Pharmacist Prescriber Pathway Workshop’ has just been completed a...
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04 Mar 2024
Promising pharmacists’ rite of passage
Future pharmacists were warmly inducted at the annual School of Pharmacy ‘White...
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21 Feb 2024
First time dual winners of Premier Undergraduate Prize
For the first time, the Division of Health Sciences Premier Undergraduate Prize...
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02 Feb 2024
The case for cannabidiol inhalers
Professor Shyamal Das has secured funding to investigate how cannabidiol can be...
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24 Jan 2024
Making medicines and other pharmaceutical mysteries
In honour of this year’s International Day of Education (24 January), Dr Susan H...
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08 Dec 2023
Tohu makes the ‘grind’ worthwhile
Pounamu Keepa (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāti Ruanui, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Kahu) hopes...
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18 Aug 2023
PhD grad on new evidence for eye drops used in preterm infants
Lisa Kremer’s (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, and Waitaha) walk across the graduation sta...
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07 Aug 2023
Is Ozempic the miracle weight loss drug?
If Ozempic or similar medicines were funded for weight loss it would take consid...
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04 Jul 2023
HRC grants $51 million to Otago researchers
Otago researchers have received a significant $51 million funding boost from the...
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25 May 2023
Study will measure how much breast milk baby is actually getting
Mothers worry about an exhaustive list of things
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23 Feb 2023
Representing Aotearoa New Zealand at Synchronised Skating events in Europe
Competing against some of Europe’s top teams was an “incredible” experience and...