AI’s utility in clinical dentistry receives recognition in New Zealand

US-based Pearl, developing artificial intelligent (AI) solutions for efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in dental car...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ discovers first brain marker for anxiety disorder

A University of Otago researcher has discovered a brain signal that will help improve the diagnosis and treatment of anx...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
NZ targets right atrium to fix irregularly beating hearts

A team of researchers at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) is advancing the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation ...

September 29, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Experts at NZ call for better mask guidelines to stop COVID-19

A new rapid evidence brief, Improving mask use to stop COVID-19 transmission, from Koi Tū: The Centre for Inf...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
NZ to develop ‘electroceutical’ for treating heart diseases

Researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand (NZ) have been awarded over $1 million by MBIE’s Endeavou...

September 10, 2021 | Friday | News
NZ raises alertness on myocarditis and pericarditis symptoms post-vaccination

The COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board (CV-ISMB) has advised the Ministry of Health in New Zealand to ...

August 30, 2021 | Monday | News
Health Ministry in NZ studies COVID-19 impact on local population

Victoria University of Wellington has been awarded a contract for one of its health research centres to carry out a stud...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
New Zealand’s to fund novel innovations to assist more mental health initiatives

New Zealand Health Ministery has set up a one-off defined mental health innovation fund to further expand the suppo...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ links chronic lung diseases with heart attacks

People using two different inhalers for common chronic lung diseases are more than 50 per cent more likely to have a hea...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
New Zealand unveils 12 health system indicator framework to reform health services

New Zealand's reform of the health system has unveiled a system to ensure the deliv...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ tech firm creates AI prototype app to diagnoses pneumonia

A prototype app using artificial intelligence to diagnose pneumonia has won the developer an international award in Ne...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ takes next step for largest health infrastructure project

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand (NZ) is now in talks for next planning and design stage in the New Dunedin Hospita...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ to establish new communicable diseases research centre

New Zealand (NZ)- based University of Otago’s Global Health Institute and Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ brings technology to detect early signs of foot complications in diabetics

Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) in New Zealand (NZ) have received Health Research Council (HR...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
NZ develops device to detect 'lazy eye' or amblyopia

A novel device designed by researchers at the New Zealand-based Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) to test the eyes...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ pledges more openness on use of animals in research

The University of Auckland has signed up to a New Zealand (NZ) agreement pledging openness on the use of animals in rese...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ lays focus on combined screening of stomach and bowel cancer

Dr Stephen Inns and his team from the University of Otago, in New Zealand (NZ) have secured almost $250,000 from the Hea...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ identifies unmet need for antenatal mental health support

The first-ever study to look at anti-depressant use and symptoms of depression in pregnant New Zealand (NZ) women has id...

July 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News