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One of America’s leading universities, New York University (NYU), will utilise Kiwi MoleMap technology to advance skin cancer research and help find new ways to detect melanoma earlier.
The Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit, a teaching hospital at NYU’s Langone Medical Center will now have access to 1000’s of Kiwi and Australian melanoma case [...]

A Wellington IT company is focused on the healthcare and insurance sectors in the United States for future growth.
Business intelligence software firm Futrix provides web-based software that provides companies with simple and fast access to the information they hold.
Asia Pacific head Anthony Bishop says the recession has helped in some ways, as its software can [...]

Canterbury milk processor Synlait will launch a share offer to the public this month.
Synlait will also seek to list the company on the New Zealand sharemarket where there are no dairy businesses, making it first off the block. Others such as Timaru’s Allan Hubbard are considering selling in whole or in part corporate dairy [...]

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has selected ten companies as finalists in its Focus on Health Challenge business development competition.
The finalists range from software to medical devices and wound care therapies, and include virtual reality training systems, hospital management software, anticoagulant management and monitoring, a wound care tissue supplement, a bacterial water checking device and [...]

Ten companies with outstanding examples of some of the potentially world-leading health solutions being developed in this country, have been selected as finalists in New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s Focus on Health Challenge business development competition.
Ranging from software solutions to medical devices and wound care therapies, the top 10 entries include virtual reality training systems, [...]

Nov. 10 (BusinessWire) – AFT Pharmaceuticals, a closely held drug development company, is claiming a world first with its Maxigesic pain relief tablet that combines paracetamol and ibuprofen.
The Auckland-based company launched the tablet last month after beginning trials in 2004 and the kiwi firm hopes to crack into the US$20 billion global market for analgesics. [...]

Auckland District Health Board, Gen-i and Alcatel-Lucent Announce First Mobile Telehealth Trial in New Zealand
Twenty heart failure patients in Auckland are to trial a New Zealand first – using mobile technology to transmit their daily health readings without having to step foot into a hospital.
The Auckland District Health Board (ADHB), Gen-i and Alcatel-Lucent have partnered [...]

Wellington, Sept 18 NZPA - New Zealand is among nine well-off countries who have agreed to share extra swine flu vaccine with less-developed countries.
The United States today pledged 10 percent of its vaccine supply, joining Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and Britain.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been working to persuade well-off [...]

Auckland University scientists have made a breakthrough that could save the lives of thousands of heart patients worldwide and eventually offer an alternative to heart transplants.
Scientists from the university’s Bioengineering Institute, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Physiology have developed the technology to power a wireless heart pump.
Heart pumps keep sufferers of [...]

From Sept 2009, NZ and Australia bakers should ensure folic acid is present in their bread products as a joint decision by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ).

While folic acid is linked to preventing neural tube defects among foetuses and newborns and is mandatory in some baked products in countries such as [...]