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A NEW ZEALAND FIRST: USING VR TO GIVE PREGNANT WOMEN A BETTER BIRTHING EXPERIENCE
Giving birth can involve pain, anxiety and fear for women, it can lengthen labour, putting both women and baby under more stress, and...
Sep 24, 20243 min read


USING FEEDBACK AND AI TO IMPROVE MĀORI PRIMARY HEALTH SERVICES
The National Hauora Coalition is a Māori-led primary health care and social services provider. The NHC evidently does things differently...
Aug 28, 20242 min read


TO MAKE A PORTABLE MRI, YOU START SMALL
Looking at the Axana portable MRI for head/stroke patients, you might ask why no one has thought of this before. There have been...
Aug 28, 20243 min read

RAP STAGE II FUNDING OCTOBER ROUND NOW OPEN
Applications are now invited for the next Research Acceleration Programme (RAP) Stage II RfP round (October 2024). The current...
Aug 6, 20241 min read


NZ HEALTH TECH TRANSFORMS GLOBAL HEALTHCARE
New Zealand is no stranger to health tech innovation – from co-discovering the molecular structure of DNA to inventing the disposable...
Jul 26, 20241 min read

IMPROVING HEALTH EQUITY FOR PEOPLE OF LARGER SIZE
People living with obesity (PlwO) face many challenges, not the least of which is equity in health services. Researchers Caz Hales and...
Jul 16, 20242 min read


THE VISION OF SIR PETER HUNTER
Sir Peter Hunter, founder of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, makes the work sound easy: “We use physics and maths to try to...
Jul 16, 20243 min read


FUNDING LIFELINE THROWN TO TWO SUCCESSFUL HEALTHTECH INITIATIVES
Article source: Fiona Rotherham, NBR The government has found money in its tightly-held coffers for on-going funding for two initiatives...
Jul 9, 20241 min read


NZ'S MEDTECH TRANSLATOR: BRIDGING RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION
Article source: GFCC New Zealand's MedTech Translator In 2012, Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Hunter and Dr. Diana Siew (pictured...
Jul 9, 20242 min read


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