New-Zealand installs the world’s most advanced AI supercomputer

New Zealand’s most powerful supercomputer for artificial intelligence applications has been installed at the Unive...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ seeks additional Janssen COVID-19 vaccine data

New Zealand's medicines regulator, Medsafe has requested additional information from Janssen, ahead of making a decision...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
New Zealand joins hands with WHO to eliminate health inequities

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand is joining the World Health Organization (WHO) as it calls for action to eliminate...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
NZ to start immunization programme for influenza in mid-April

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand (NZ) is confirming this year’s influenza immunisation programme will begin a...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Israel, NZ approve sale of SaNOtize’s anti-viral nasal spray

Canadian biotech company SaNOtize Research & Development Corp has announced that it has received interim approval to...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
NZ establishes knowledge-sharing network for mental wellbeing

The New Zealand government’s commitment to increase innovation and collaboration across mental wellbeing services ...

March 22, 2021 | Monday | News
New Zealand approves launch of Tilray’s medical cannabis products

Tilray, Inc, a global pioneer in cannabis research, cultivation, production, and distribution, has announced that it has...

March 12, 2021 | Friday | News
NZ unveils national platform for wound telehealth assessments

The US Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) is establishing New Zealand based ARANZ Medical's Silhouette solution as a V...

February 26, 2021 | Friday | News
New Zealand to launch 2021 health delivery funding opportunities

New Zealand Health Research Council's (HRC) Health Delivery Research Investment Round to fund research tha...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | News
New Zealand funds 3 R&D initiatives towards reducing breast cancer

The Health Research Council of New Zealand, Breast Cancer Cure and Breast Cancer Foundation NZ have funded three new res...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
New Zealand invests $0.45M in precision health studies

The Health Research Council of New Zealand and Precision Driven Health (PDH) have awarded two Postdoctoral Fellowsh...

February 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand develops early warning indicator for viral infection

Datamine, a New Zealand based AI company, has created ëlarm: a personal early warning indicator for viral...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
New Zeland to provide $75 M for Pacific and global COVID-19 vaccination support

New Zealand has announced $75 million of Official Development Assistance earmarked to support Pacific and global v...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
New Zealand secures AstraZeneca & Novavax COVID-19 vaccines

The New Zealand Government will purchase COVID-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax, me...

December 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
NZ takes action on face masks not meeting quality standards

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand (NZ) has advised District health boards (DHBs) to put on hold their stocks of...

December 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand invests $84.7M to support innovative research

The New Zeland Government is investing $84.7 million in innovative research projects including those focussed on health,...

November 30, 2020 | Monday | News
Koru Lifescience identifies drug compounds beneficial for COVID-19 trials

New Zealand's Koru Lifescience, drug discovery, and advanced formulation research laboratory in Auckland, has ident...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NZ study links mitochondrial targeted antioxidant with protecting genomic DNA

New Zealand's researchers discovered that healthy male participants who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targe...

November 20, 2020 | Friday | News