Dr Lester Levy, Chair of the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC), is very pleased to advise that psychiatrist and researcher Professor Catherine (Sunny) Collings has been appointed the new
World-renowned asthma researcher Professor Richard Beasley has tonight been awarded the HRC Beaven Medal for the huge impact he has had on treating and managing asthma.
A team of New Zealand researchers have been recognised for their groundbreaking paper that could help reduce the number of older women presenting with fractures by up to half.
For her outstanding leadership and contribution to Māori health, Dr Matire Harwood (Ngāpuhi) was tonight awarded the HRC Te Tohu Rapuora Award at the Royal Society Te Apārangi Honours ceremony.
New evidence from a large New Zealand vaping study suggests that hundreds of thousands more smokers worldwide could successfully quit the killer habit if they used nicotine-containing e-cigarettes (vapes) together with nicotine patches.
