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Charlotte Martin: Change your diet to fit your jeans and genes
Today, we know that lifestyle and environment interact with diet to affect our health, writes Charlotte Martin.
![Gluten free: Against the grain](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Gluten free: Against the grain
There’s no reliable test for it, yet the number of people with gluten intolerance is apparently on the rise in New Zealand. Greg Dixon tries to get to the bottom of the disorder.
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Tech Universe: Friday 22 March
Bored of an evening? You could always create an Algae Biofuel Lab as one 17 year old student in the US did to win a $100,000 science prize.
![Collapse of antibiotics 'colossal threat'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Collapse of antibiotics 'colossal threat'
Minor surgery could be life-threatening in the future, warn experts in Britain and New Zealand.
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More jabs in store for Kiwi babies
Kiwi babies look likely to get free vaccinations against chickenpox and rotavirus later this year - up to six years after Australia.
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Stink over dung beetles in NZ
At a secret location just north of Auckland, an experiment has started which might alter the face of New Zealand's $12 billion dairy industry.
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Fears about new beetles
The planned release of vast numbers of imported dung beetles could spread nasty gut diseases, Auckland's top public health doctor has warned.
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New strain behind norovirus illnesses
A new and deadly strain was behind most of the norovirus illnesses that affected dozens of people throughout New Zealand late last year.
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Kiwis warned about deadly norovirus
Kiwis are being urged to take health precautions to prevent infection from a deadly strain of norovirus, which has already reached New Zealand.
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NZ braces for deadly flu
Medical experts in New Zealand are bracing themselves for the arrival of a deadly flu that is sweeping the US which has already killed 20 children.
![Surprise for overweight in death study](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Surprise for overweight in death study
Overweight people have surprisingly beaten out your normal Joe Average on the mortality scale, a statistical survey of medical studies has shown.
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Kiwi dies before trip for stem cell tests
A woman with a very rare debilitating disease was planning a trip to the United States for tests with stem cells before her death.
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Taleban kill six in polio programme
Health experts have condemned a "devastating" assault by the Pakistan Taleban in which five female polio vaccinators were shot dead in co-ordinated attacks across two cities.
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Study: Swine flu pandemic cost $31m
The 2009 swine flu pandemic cost New Zealand hospitals about $31 million, a new university study shows.
![Gluten drug could allow normal diet](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Gluten drug could allow normal diet
A new vaccine that could be the world's first cure for coeliac disease is being tested in New Zealand.
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Parkinson's trial approved
New Zealand scientists have been approved to test a treatment for "the saddest of diseases" which involves injecting cells from a pig's brain into a patient.