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NZH: Polypill set to combat killer condition
An article in today’s New Zealand Herald looks at a five-pill trial involving Auckland University and New Zealand patients that […]
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If the Government’s multibillion dollar plan to deliver high-speed internet access 75 per cent of the population has been a […]
Continue readingBody mass index and mortality – the risks of being obese
A new study was published in The Lancet this month, which looked at body mass index (BMI) and cause-specific mortality […]
Continue readingNIWA seasonal climate outlook: April – June 2009
NIWA has published it’s climate outlook for the next three months: La Niña weakening, with a mild end to autumn […]
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Continue readingTea drinking and oesophageal cancer
A new study just published today in the British Medical Journal has found a link between drinking hot tea and […]
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A new report is published this month by the Obesity Action Coalition on Food Security for Pacific Peoples in New […]
Continue readingMIT’s open access push for scientific research
So what happens to the traditional cycle of publishing scientific research in journals when a major player like the Massachusetts […]
Continue readingNZH: Hand-held, hands-free – bad call
Tony Lambert, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Auckland and Charlene Hallett has recently submitted an MSc thesis […]
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