University of Otago

One Brazil nut a day is enough to raise the average New Zealander's selenium intake to internationally recommended levels and eating two could lead to added health benefits, according to University of Otago researchers.

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OTAGO — Health researchers from the University of Otago Christchurch are developing a unique breath test for tuberculosis (TB) – a disease that continues to kill more than two million people every year world-wide and is again becoming more prevalent in developed countries like New Zealand.

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OTAGO — Six of the University of Otago's brightest doctoral students have gained Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships to pursue their studies.

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OTAGO — Former Cabinet Minister Simon Upton is joining the University of Otago as a Visiting Fellow.

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DUNEDIN — The University of Otago is delighted by the news that the stadium project is to go ahead.

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OTAGO — A chance discovery of recurring mildly low blood platelets in a local family has led University of Otago researchers on a fascinating international collaborative journey to unlock genetic secrets that could prove vital in the battle against major diseases.

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DUNEDIN — The University of Otago today reiterated its commitment as a partner in the Carisbrook Stadium project.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has awarded its 2008 Research Award to Associate Professor Annette Beautrais from the University of Otago, Christchurch in recognition of her contributions to suicide research.

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WELLINGTON — Unleaded petrol became mandatory in New Zealand in 1996, but a newly published study led by the University of Otago, Wellington reveals there was a 20 year delay as a result of deliberate lobbying by the lead additives industry, poorly informed and vacillating politicians, and a bureaucracy which lacked technical expertise.

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OTAGO — Otago Innovation, the University of Otago's commercialisation arm, has secured Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST) funding worth nearly $3m over the next three years.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford says that adolescent self-harm is a significant and growing problem in many developed countries, with cases often never coming to the attention of clinicians and hospitals.

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The University of Otago's Public Health Department in Wellington is for the first time drawing together experts from New Zealand and overseas to discuss the impacts of leaky buildings on health in two workshops.

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WELLINGTON — A new Centre for Sustainable Cities is being launched at the University of Otago, Wellington bringing together experts from New Zealand and overseas on making our cities more sustainable.

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DUNEDIN — Construction of a major new environmentally friendly building for the University of Otago's Department of Psychology has been approved by the University Council.

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OTAGO — A gifted clinical epidemiologist has returned from frontline infectious disease research in Africa to head New Zealand's first Centre for International Health.

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A top visiting British Psychiatrist says that the treatment of mental illness is likely to rapidly progress in the next 15 to 20 years because of improved technology and knowledge of genetics .

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Central and local government agencies in New Zealand have fared better than their Australian counterparts in a University of Otago study of e-government responsiveness.

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DUNEDIN — New Zealand's first Centre dedicated to the communication of science is being launched at the University of Otago on Thursday (21 February).

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DUNEDIN — Many hours of testing and painstaking observation using the University of Otago's swimming flume have gone into the latest Olympic offering from international swimwear manufacturer Speedo.

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New clues to why Māori adults tend to have the earliest childhood memories of any culture studied so far are being revealed by University of Otago research.

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OTAGO — The calibre of applicants for the University of Otago's new Chair in Scottish Studies was such that the University has appointed two professors.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Researchers at the University of Otago, Christchurch have broken new scientific ground with discoveries regarding a previously little understood heart hormone, showing how it is crucial for bone development and growth after birth.

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OTAGO — Heavy cannabis smoking has been identified as a major cause of gum disease in a study involving researchers from the University of Otago, King's College in London, Duke University and the University of North Carolina in the USA.

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DUNEDIN — The University of Otago's Enterprise Office and partners are providing a forum for Dunedinites to lay their good business ideas bare, when it hosts its "Bear Baiting" competition on 26 March.

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DUNEDIN — Mosgiel author Bill O'Brien has been chosen as the University of Otago College of Education Writer in Residence for 2008.

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OTAGO — The University of Otago has been selected as a finalist in the Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards 2008.

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DUNEDIN — Greenhouse gas emissions generated by visitors' air travel to New Zealand are far greater than commonly quoted, according to new research by University of Otago scientists.

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DUNEDIN — Kids who participated in sports in childhood are more likely to participate as adolescents or adults, but the link is weaker than popularly believed, new University of Otago research has found.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The University of Otago Christchurch has received more than double last year's grants from the Lottery Grants Board for health research for 2008.

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CHRISTCHURCH — A high proportion of 25 year olds who experience problems with alcohol don't think that they need help according to new research from the University of Otago, Christchurch.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Associate Professor Philip Bagshaw has been named New Zealander of the Year by North and South Magazine.

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OTAGO — One of the University of Otago's most promising early career researchers has been awarded the University's Rowheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Medal for 2007.

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OTAGO — A large group of international marketing experts and researchers will gather in Dunedin next week for the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) conference.

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OTAGO — Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg today announced that four honorary degrees will be awarded during the University of Otago's December graduations.

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OTAGO — Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine at Oxford University, is warning that much more needs to be done to translate good health research into medical practice to avoid wasting millions of dollars on health care.

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WELLINGTON — Health researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington suggest that encouraging women to self-test can be used to control the increasingly common sexually transmitted infection Chlamydia.

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OTAGO — University of Otago researchers have gained major funding to develop technology that could significantly boost efforts to discover new drugs to treat disease.

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OTAGO — High rates of gout among Māori and Pacific Island men may have a genetic basis going back thousands of years to the time when Polynesia and Melanesia were being colonised from South East Asia.

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WELLINGTON — The University of Otago, Wellington has recently updated the New Zealand Index of Socio-economic Deprivation, based on data from the 2006 census.

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OTAGO — A recent study by medical students at the University of Otago, Wellington has shown there is considerable public support for smokefree parks, particularly where there are children's playgrounds.

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OTAGO — A squid-derived wound-healing gel invented by University of Otago scientists is attracting attention from international medical companies, due to its unique blend of properties.

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OTAGO — Studying New Zealanders from "cradle to grave" and using the findings to benefit society is the focus of a new nationwide research centre.

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OTAGO — University Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg today announced the University of Otago's 2008 Arts Fellows.

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OTAGO — Marked ethnic differences in the rates of extreme childhood obesity in New Zealand have emerged in a nationwide survey headed by University of Otago researchers.

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OTAGO — Breastfeeding can have a positive effect on the IQ of children when combined with the right genes, according to a ground-breaking University of Otago study.

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OTAGO — A University of Otago postgraduate physics student has gained a prestigious and highly competitive international award to undertake PhD study in the United States.

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OTAGO — Four eminent Otago academics recently achieved the distinction of being elected Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Latest analysis from the New Zealand Mental Health Survey by Dr Elisabeth Wells from the University of Otago Christchurch, clarifies ethnic differences in drug and alcohol use and disorder in NZ.

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WELLINGTON — Nutrition, tobacco control and equity in health will be the focus of New Zealand's first Health Promotion and Policy Research Unit to be launched on Friday November 2 at the University of Otago, Wellington.

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WELLINGTON — The World Cancer Research Fund report on the role of food, nutrition and physical activity on the prevention of cancer provides a timely challenge for the incoming Minister of Health, according to University of Otago Wellington researchers.

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OTAGO — Following hard on the heels of Otago's double Rhodes Scholarship successes, two more of the University's brightest students have scooped another prestigious scholarship for UK study.

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OTAGO — The new minimum standards for insulation in the Building Code are a welcome addition to environmental health and energy efficiency, according to University of Otago researcher Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Health researchers at the University of Otago, Christchurch have been awarded nearly $385,000 in project grants by the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation as part of its annual grant round for 2007.

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DUNEDIN — A lack of public awareness and understanding of the benefits genetic tests can bring to the health of individuals, families and communities has been highlighted in the latest report of the University of Otago-based Human Genome Research Project.

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AUCKLAND CITY — A National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies is to be established at the University of Otago, thanks to the vision of four prominent New Zealanders.

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OTAGO — The latest figures in New Zealand show biotechnology is on its way to becoming a billion dollar industry.

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OTAGO — Two of the three Rhodes Scholars announced last night are from the University of Otago, lifting the University’s tally of recipients of the prestigious scholarship to 54.

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OTAGO — All of New Zealand's recreational river users are being called on to take part in a major survey exploring river use and motivation for participation.

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OTAGO — The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Otago.

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OTAGO — A research team from the University of Otago is currently conducting a world-first study on relocation after parental separation.

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OTAGO — Car advertisements in New Zealand lack safety information, according to research just published by public health researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington.

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OTAGO — Four new honorary Fellows of the Hocken Library have been announced to help mark the centenary of the Hocken Collections.

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