News archive for Faculty of Medicine

– When a product is labeled with a keyhole, it does not mean that the product is healty, but that it is healthier than similar products, says nutrition experts Cathrine Horn and Vegard Lysne.

Placing stools from healthy people in the stomach improved both the symptoms and bacterial flora in the intestines of persons with a variety of irritable bowel syndrome.

This is the first volume to connect philosophical discussions on the harm of death with discussions on population health, adjusting the ways in which death is evaluated. Edited by post doc in the GHP Research Group Carl Tollef Solberg and associated member of the group Espen Gamlund (professor in philosophy). Foreword by professor of Moral Philosophy Jeff McMahan.

The University of Bergen has just implemented the Hyperion Imaging System, next generation immunohistochemistry where researchers can explore tissue biology with 35 antibodies simultaneously. This instrument is the only of its kind in Northern Europe, and is open for booking for all researchers on equal terms.

The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia renews its commitment to actions towards universal health coverage (UHC). The re-definition of the Essential Health Service Packages (EHSP), which the Global Health Priorities Research Group is involved in, is defined as one of the most important steps forward.

Four PhD-candidates from the Centre for Nutrition participated at the RStudio conference in Austin last week.

Summarising 2018 and looking ahead to 2019 at IGS

The Research Council of Norway has announced that 11 out of 87 received applications have been selected for funding in their programme called "High-quality and Reliable Diagnostics, Treatment and Rehabilitation (BEHANDLING)”. The project “Enhanced cryoimmunotherapy against urogenital cancers” by project leader Karl-Henning Kalland, CCBIO PI, was among the 11 selected projects and was one of two... Read more