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NZ Herald: New ministry chief executives named
Extract: (click here to read in full) Research, Science and Technology Foundation chief executive Murray Bain will take over the […]
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A Ministry of Health advisory committee yesterday recommended the weight-loss drug sibutramine (marketed as Reductil) be withdrawn after a major […]
Continue readingPodcast: FarmsOnLine to aid biosecurity outbreak responses
Five years on from Operation Waiheke, the government’s response to a foot and mouth outbreak on Waiheke Island that turned […]
Continue readingElevated trans fats in dairy supply may be linked to health risk
New Zealand Herald’s Chris Barton investigates new evidence of palm kernel-derived trans fats in New Zealand dairy products and their […]
Continue readingAusSMC: Light drinking during pregnancy fails to affect child development – experts respond
AusSMC: UK research has found light drinking during pregnancy does not harm a young child’s behavioral or intellectual development. The […]
Continue readingIs light drinking during pregnancy okay? Experts respond
UPDATED 4PM: New research drawing on data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study, a large study tracking the long term […]
Continue readingLandmark ‘Census of Marine Life’ effort culminates today
The first-ever global Census of Marine Life will officially conclude today at a news conference in London, after a decade […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: IgNobels, Kiwi attitudes to science, SciBlogs anniversary
What do Kiwis think of science? Next week will see the launch of a study that looks at the public’s […]
Continue reading‘Dirty Weather’ Diaries of Reverend Davis — rescuing lost climate data from the past
ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING: THUR 30 September, 1:30 pm (NZT) — Weather data salvaged from Northland missionary diaries and Australian First […]
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