Tagged: chronic pain

How New Zealand media reports chronic pain - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 17, 2020 •

• chronic pain,
• journalism,
• media,
• pain

Hemakumar Devan Around three million New Zealanders access news media (both paper and online) every week. Yes, you heard that right! So, the potential for news media to shape public health beliefs is common sense. As chronic pain affects one in five New Zealanders, we wanted to find out how New Zealand’s news media have reported chronic pain by … Read More

New medicines hiding in New Zealand forests - Guest Work

John Kerr • Aug 19, 2016 •

• chronic pain,
• Diabetes,
• drug development,
• Medicines,
• native plants,
• new medicines,
• ongaonga,
• pain,
• Rongoa,
• Traditional medicine

“The world currently faces a critical shortage of therapeutic drugs to treat disorders such as bacterial infections and chronic pain”, says scientist Dr Eric Buenz. “The New Zealand bush may have the answers.” Eric has highlighted his search for new drugs in a video entered into Thinkable’s ‘180 Seconds of Science’ competition, sponsored by the Royal Society of New … Read More