Medicine
Born this way: How to improve the brain development of premature babies
Nearly 10 per cent of babies born in New Zealand will be premature, and while attention goes to their immediate medical needs - could they be missing out when it comes to crucial brain development… Audio
Dr Gavin Francis: To Transform is to be alive
GP and award-winning writer, Gavin Francis explores the incredible transformation humans undergo through the course of a lifetime. His latest book Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change considers… Audio
Silos and sexism: addiction services and mental health
Despite addiction often being tied up with other mental health problems, treatment tends to be separate and siloed - and aimed primarily at men - author, journalist and former addict Jenny Valentish… Audio
Criticism of new hospital rosters 'speculation' - Resident Doctors Union
A report into the new hospital rosters that were supposed to make things safer for both doctors and patients, says the new system is inflexible, has a negative effect on training, and reduces… Audio
Specialty trainee doctors criticise new rosters
Earlier we reported on a new junior doctors' union that says revised hospital rosters that thousands of doctors striked for have wrecked their training and may be unsafe for patients. Specialty… Audio
Māori medical students fed up with pathway ignorance
Māori students studying medicine at the University of Otago say they are fed up with the ignorance they face over the way they are selected into their second year of study. There are limited spaces in… Audio
NZ behind in funding modern medicine – Aus oncologist
Visiting Australian oncologist John Zalcberg says New Zealand cancer patients are missing out on access to new medicines, available in other countries, because Pharmac won't fund them. Video, Audio
NZ cancer drug funding the 'survival of the richest'
Cancer Society's Medical Director Chris Jackson has called the way some of his patients can afford better cancer drugs than others "survival of the richest", while oncologists throughout NZ call on… Video, Audio
PNG health workers want overhaul as medicine shelves run bare
Health workers in Papua New Guinea are calling for dramatic change as hospital shelves run bare. Audio
Andrew Leigh: 'More African-Americans are under criminal supervision now than there were slaves in 1850'
Australia's shadow assistant treasurer Dr Andrew Leigh is a proponent of evidence-based policy through the use of random trials. His book, Randomistas, reveals why data should be the basis for… Audio
Doug Wilson on ageing and longevity
If you want to live a long healthy life, exercise, socialise and eat a Mediterranean-style diet, says medical academic and author of Ageing for Beginners Doug Wilson. Audio
Dame Carol Robinson - Elemental medicine
Dame Carol Robinson is a chemist who has pioneered the application of mass spectrometry techniques to problems in chemical biology. Her groundbreaking research on the three-dimensional structure of… Audio
Could supercharged drugs fight the superbugs?
Antibiotic resistance could leave humanity returning to an age when simple infections were fatal and surgery was life threatening, the World Health Organisation says. Australian researchers say… Audio
Could a pill replace exercise?
Do you fancy living longer, having better sex, increasing your memory, and building muscle tone while burning fat?! With reputed benefits like these it's no wonder that the search is on for a… Audio
Mapping the gut
A flexible tool to measure electrical signals in our gut could detect serious medical conditions. Audio
Using noble metals to kill cancer
The winner of the 2017 Hill Tinsley Medal is developing anti-cancer drugs based on noble metals such as platinum and iridium. Audio
Drug discoverer recognised with a top science honour
The 2017 MacDiarmid Medal has been awarded to chemist Peter Tyler, for his work designing and creating new drugs to treat diseases such as cancer. Audio
Sex medicine: treating men and women differently
Heart disease is the biggest killer of women in NZ. Could part of the problem be that a woman's symptoms can be very different to a man's, and lots of heart attacks are missed and wrongly diagnosed? Audio
Why don't poisonous frogs poison themselves?
Dr Chris Smith of The Naked Scientists brings us the latest from the world of science news and research.This week the global pharmaceutical giant Novartis has just got USFDA approval for a new class… Audio
Govt wants school of rural medicine by 2020
The government has invited universities to bid for funding to set up a new medical school for rural GPs.