Press Release – Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind

As if gorgeous puppies weren’t sweet enough, this year’s Red Puppy Appeal has added a further touch of sweetness with the release of the Red Puppy Cookie Cutter. Read more »

Press Release – Green Party

The Ministry of Health’s media around the Public Health Mapua Report is an attempt to whitewash a very serious situation, the Green Party said today. Read more »

Press Release – University of Auckland

A special “gym” designed by University of Auckland student Casey Jowers to exercise human bone cells in the laboratory could help to develop better drug therapies for osteoporosis and other bone diseases. Read more »

Press Release – ING Medical Properties Trust

ING Medical Properties Limited (IMPL), the Manager of ING Medical Properties Trust (NZSX ticker: IMP) today announced the unconditional sale of the Central Hawkes Bay Health Centre in Waipukurau for $4.3 million. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

Feb. 26 (BusinessWire) – Ebos Group Ltd. has $100 million to spend on acquisitions and is attracted to companies in the scientific products distribution space in Australia, said chief executive Mark Waller. Read more »

Press Release – Janssen-Cilag

Janssen-Cilag announced that PRILIGY® (dapoxetine) is now approved and available for use in New Zealand for the treatment of premature ejaculation (PE) in men 18-64 years of age. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

Feb. 24 (BusinessWire) – Comvita Ltd. the medicinal honey products developer whose shares have doubled in 12 months, said it completed a global licensing and manufacturing deal with Nasdaq-listed Derma Science Inc. for its Medihoney wound-care line. Read more »

Press Release – ShareLife

The latest Organ Transplant Scorecard released by ShareLife today and based on data provided by ANZOD, reveals a disappointing decline in Australian transplant numbers. This is despite the $151.1 million transplant reform package launched in July 2008 … Read more »

Press Release – Statistics New Zealand

New Zealand’s life expectancy at birth has increased by 0.2 years for both males and females since 2006–08, Statistics New Zealand said today. Read more »

Press Release – Natural Products NZ

Natural Products New Zealand welcomes the changes to the Dietary Supplements Regulations Act 1985, whereby food type dietary supplements will now be regulated by the New Zealand Food (Supplemented Food) Standard 2010. Read more »

Press Release – Oral B

We may like to think of ourselves as a nation that keeps its environment clean but when it comes to our own personal hygiene Kiwis are downright dirty according to new research. Read more »

Press Release – Medical Technology Association of New Zealand

An increasing number of DHBs and non-pharmaceutical medical suppliers are taking advantage of the substantial savings they can achieve through a specially developed industry-wide e-trading gateway. Read more »

Article – Businesswire

Feb. 17 (BusinessWire) – ING Medical Properties Trust, the country’s only listed commercial landlord specialising in healthcare properties, took a swipe at the government’s proposal to eliminate tax write-offs for depreciating buildings. It posted a 15% … Read more »

Press Release – Medical Technology Association of New Zealand

Export revenues from New Zealand’s medical technology products could potentially rival those of the more high profile NZ wine sector in three to five years, according to the Emerging Medical Technology Group. Read more »

Press Release – Pharmacy Guild

The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) welcomes the establishment of the Quality & Safety Improvement Commission and strongly recommends the Minister of Health appoints a community pharmacist as a member. Read more »

Press Release – Living Cell Technologies

Cell implant company Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT; OTCQX: LVCLY) today announced that it has been awarded a grant of NZ$4.04 million from the New Zealand government’s Foundation for Research Science & Technology. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Government

The Government is investing over $4 million in ground-breaking Type 1 diabetes research, Minister of Research, Science and Technology Wayne Mapp announced today. Read more »

Press Release – University of Waikato

It’s called the invisible injury, but traumatic brain injury (TBI) is very common and can happen to anyone at any time – in a car crash or while playing sports, as well as through assaults and falls. Read more »

Press Release – Science Media Centre

Are millions of us wasting our time trying to get fit? An article in the New Zealand Herald yesterday certainly suggests this is the case. Read more »

Press Release – Science Media Centre

The move by London-based medical journal The Lancet to retract a ten year old paper that suggested a potential link between the MMR vaccine and autism in children effectively ends one of the longest running medical controversies of recent decades. The retraction … Read more »