Media Release Archive
- 2006
Postgraduate
students celebrate success in health sciences
14 December 2006
This academic year nearly 200 postgraduate students from the Christchurch School of
Medicine and Health Sciences have received a Certificate, Diploma, Masters or PhD in
Health Sciences from the University of Otago, taking a further step in their careers
as health professionals.
Don't plague me now. I have the gout sir!
11 December 2006
It may be thought that gout is generally an affliction of the past. Not so according
to Rheumatologist, Dr Lisa Stamp at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health
Sciences. Gout still strikes thousands of New Zealanders of all ages, but particularly
Maori and Pacific Islanders who have rates as high as 14%.
Cancer kids calendar
helps launch child cancer research lab
5 December 2006
The raising of nearly $50 thousand dollars through a calendar featuring children
who have been treated for cancer has been vital in helping to establish a new
laboratory at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago
University, dedicated to research into child cancer.
Grants
awarded for research into arthritis and depression
5 December 2006
The University of Otago’s Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences has
received an additional $2.3 million dollars for research into medication used in the
treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, and the effectiveness of anti-depressants when used
in primary health care.
Leading
heart researchers plan national group
17 October 2006
Leading scientists and clinicians engaged in cardiac research in NZ are gathering in
Christchurch on Wednesday October 18 to discuss the setting up of a national collaborative
heart research group. The all day seminar involving 45 researchers is at The Chateau on the
Park, Deans Avenue, Christchurch.
To cure sometimes,
to relieve often, to comfort always
27 September 2006
More than a century has passed since TB physician Dr Edward Trudeau used these words to
guide his practice. Yet they are still central to the philosophy of addiction specialist,
Professor Doug Sellman from Otago University’s Christchurch School of Medicine and
Health Sciences, who will deliver his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on Thursday September 28.
Compounds from vegetables
attack cancer cell
15 September 2006
One of the most complex medical challenges is to find the right mix of drugs to kill cancer
tumour cells. A research team at the Christchurch School of,Medicine and Health Sciences,
University of Otago, has now discovered that,compounds from cruciferous vegetables such as
broccoli, brussels sprouts and,watercress help to kill cancer cells which are resistant to
other treatments.
Big increase of sex workers
a myth: latest research
12 September 2006
The number of sex workers on the street since the passing of the Prostitution Reform Act
has not increased according to latest research by Otago University’s Christchurch
School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The early results of a wider study indicates that
the number of sex workers on the street is much the same as before the Act came into force
in 2003.
World Suicide Prevention Day
08 September 2006
At a media conference on September 8, 2006 at the World Health Organization United Nations
Offices in New York, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), in
collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation for Mental
Health (WFMH) announced the Fourth World Suicide Prevention Day to be held on September 10, 2006.
World Suicide Prevention
Day Canterbury seminar
08 September 2006
Associate Professor Annette Beautrais of the Canterbury Suicide Project at the Christchurch
School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Otago, will present a three-hour
community seminar on suicide on Wednesday 20 September 2006 in Rangiora.
Otago researchers gain major
Marsden funding
08 September 2006
University of Otago researchers have gained nearly $11 million to undertake ideas-driven
research in the Government's latest Marsden funding round announced today.
New Dean appointed to
Otago’s Christchurch school
23 August 2006
The University of Otago today announced the appointment of Professor Peter Joyce as Dean
of the Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
International
prize to Christchurch cancer researcher
14 August 2006
Health research scientist Logan Walker from the University of Otago’s Christchurch
School of Medicine and Health Sciences has won a prestigious prize ($2500) at the
International Congress of Human Genetics held last week in Brisbane.
Participants needed
for NZ’s biggest MS study
2 August 2006
Researchers at the University of Otago’s Christchurch School of Medicine and Health
Sciences,and Christchurch Hospital, have launched the most definitive study on Multiple
Sclerosis (MS) ever attempted in this country. No one knows exactly how many people have
MS, although it is expected there are between 3000 and 4000 with this neurological condition.
Heart research wins
major grants
27 June 2006
Research into heart disease at the University of Otago’s Christchurch School of
Medicine and Health Sciences will benefit from major funding in the 2006 Health Research
Council grants just announced.
Improving drug treatment
by understanding genetic make-up
27 June 2006
Researchers from around the country are converging on Christchurch (Wed. June 28) for a
scientific symposium on pharmacogenomics, an emerging area of innovative health research
that seeks to understand how differences in genetic makeup can affect an individual's
response to drugs.
Boost for child cancer research
01 June 2006
The Child Cancer Research Group at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences
has been given a big boost to its research effort after receiving a significant grant from
the Child Cancer Foundation.
New appointment to Chair of Public Health
11 May 2006
Professor Ann Richardson has recently been appointed to the Chair in Public
Health at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Patient satisfaction
survey needs improving
14 March 2006
Survey methods checking satisfaction of hospital in-patients could be improved according to
recent research by the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago.
Illicit drug use starts
with cannabis
14 March 2006
Latest research from the long-running Christchurch Health and Development Study at the
Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences examines the relationship between the
use of cannabis and other illicit drugs in a sample of 1000 Christchurch born young people
between the ages of 15 – 25. The research results have just been released in the
international journal ‘Addiction’.
New fellowship on
Bi-polar Disorder announced
27 February 2006
The interaction between families and sufferers of bipolar disorder will be studied through
a new Fellowship announced by the University of Otago today.
Tighter licensing laws
have reduced suicides using guns
22 February 2006
Research by the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago,
confirms that changes to legislation increasing the control of the licensing of firearms
in 1992 have resulted in a significant reduction of suicides using guns.
Science in
the summer
09 February 2006
Every summer students from the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago
University, and other tertiary institutions, have the opportunity to carry out a particular
research project, supported by a variety of sponsors with an educational grant of $4000 for
each student. This is a chance for many students to experience health research under the
supervision of a clinician or scientist.
Domestic violence and mental
health
08 February 2006
Latest research from the long-running Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS) at
the University of Otago’s Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, calls
into question conventional thinking about domestic violence between partners, and its
effects on mental health.
How should doctors dress.
26 January 2006
Once the white coat in hospitals or surgery was de rigeur for doctors; not forgetting of
course the stethoscope slung casually around the neck. Not any more it seems according to
latest research recently published in the British Medical Journal.
Health lecture series 2006
24 January 2006
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