New Zealand to design risk-prediction tool to help patients predict asthma attacks

A project to develop a real-time risk-prediction tool that takes information from the environment and smart devices and ...

June 6, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand lays focus on predicting effects of traumatic brain injury

Researchers at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) in New Zealand have received $150,000 from the Health Researc...

May 30, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand announces funding worth $40.7 M for development of novel mRNA vaccines, therapies

The University of Auckland in New Zealand has received budget funding of $40.7 million for development of novel mRNA vac...

May 24, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Biopharma Helico raises seed funding for producing edible medicines

New Zealand based startup Biopharma Helico has completed an AUD $1.8 million seed funding round, attracting internationa...

May 18, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Long COVID could cast decades-long shadow: Symposium in NZ

The shadow of lasting illness could be with us for decades once the acute phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic has passed, t...

May 18, 2022 | Wednesday | News
NZ reports decline in number of people diagnosed with HIV

The number of people being diagnosed with Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in New Zealand (NZ) continues to ...

May 16, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand backs Parkinson's disease research with new grant

  A team of researchers- Professor Leigh Hale and Dr Paulo Henrique Silva Pelicioni, of the School of Physiotherap...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand puts focus on designing mRNA vaccine for Staphylococcus bug

A group of scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand are working towards developing an mRNA-based vaccine ...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand and WHO partner for healthier future

Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, Nanaia Mahuta recently met for the first time with Dr Tedros Adhan...

March 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand launches $1M fund to enhance healthcare workforce

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand has launched a $1 million fund to help former nurses return to the healthcare...

February 21, 2022 | Monday | News
New Zealand to hold trial of bionic pacemaker that can reverse heart failure

A revolutionary pacemaker that re-establishes the heart’s naturally irregular beat is set to be trialled in New Ze...

February 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Genetic research in NZ offers hope for preventing Parkinson’s disease

There’s new hope for treating Parkinson’s disease with the publication of groundbreaking genetic research fr...

February 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
NZ links paracetamol during pregnancy with childhood depression

New Zealand-based University of Auckland study shows a 'small but significant' statistical association. Profe...

February 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Cytiva fuels biotech development in Australia and New Zealand

Cytiva, a global life sciences leader, announces the winner of its first BioChallenge for the Australia and&nb...

February 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
New Zealand gives provisional nod to first protein-based COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Novavax, Inc. has announced that New Zealand's Medsafe has granted provisional approval of NVX-CoV237...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | News
NZ-based Formus Labs raises $5M to automate orthopaedic surgery planning

Founded from within Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand (NZ), Formus Labs has raised $5 million&n...

February 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
NZ discovers link between high blood pressure and diabetes

Scientists at the universities of Auckland and Bristol are preparing to test a novel medication on patients with a poten...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
NZ develops method to disinfect PPE for potential reuse

Scientists at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (NZ) have developed a shipping container-based unit to disinfect N...

January 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News