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Professor Ross Tsuyuki
Expanding the scope of pharmacy practice – improving public health (17.02.2016)
At Centre for Pharmacy’s annual scientific event for students, Professor Ross T. Tsuyuki gave a lecture on pharmacists’ expanding role and how this can contribute to improved public health. Click through to access a recording of the full lecture.
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Joint PhD degree programme recruiting students (17.02.2016)
Recently, Hawassa University in South Ethiopia and the University of Bergen agreed on a joint PhD degree programme. The programme is now recruiting students.
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Losing weight can bring challenges! (15.02.2016)
Recent results from the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) show that bariatric surgery patients need more than just physical follow-up.
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A new proposal for priority setting in Norway: Open and Fair (10.02.2016)
A new article discusses the new, comprehensive framework for priority setting laid out by the third Norwegian Committee on Priority Setting in the Health Sector in November 2014. The authors also discuss the debate and work that followed in the wake of the Committee’s report.
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Winners of the Research Presentations from 2015 (01.02.2016)
The final day of the Research presentations from 2015 was ended with a ceremony at the Foyer, Sentralblokken, Haukeland University Hospital
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Every child everywhere benefits from breastfeeding (25.01.2016)
21st Century women – in rich and poor countries alike – do not receive the support they need to breastfeed.
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Visit to the Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation at Indiana University (21.01.2016)
14-15 January 2016, Roger Strand (SVT and CCBIO) took part in two events organized by the Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation at Indiana University in Bloomington, US.
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Research presentation from 2015 (20.01.2016)
Bergen Postgraduate School in Clinical medicine would like to invite you to the upcomming event "Research presentations from 2015".
Jan Helge Seglem Mortensen
Supplemental folic acid in pregnancy and risk of maternal and childhood cancer (19.01.2016)
A new study from IGS shows no association between folic acid use before and during pregnancy and the risk of maternal and childhood cancer. The study included more than 430,000 women and 690,000 children in the period 1999-2010, and 3,780 women and 800 children developed cancer. Information on supplement use was obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway.
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K.G Jebsen partner participates in a JPND funded research grant (14.01.2016)
The challenge of neurodegenerative disease focusing on Alzheimer’s is the topic in the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND), and also the largest effort of its kind. Clive Bramham has as a partner in a currently funded project received support to study the role of two key molecular players (BDNF and Arc) in neurodegenerative disease.
IGS Open Meeting 6.1.16
New Head of Department at IGS (11.01.2016)
Guri Rørtveit kicked off her leadership job at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) with an open meeting where she outlined her plans and ideas for the next 4-year period.
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Announcement of the 12th MIC confocal course (08.01.2016)
MIC is happy to announce the 12th course in confocal microscopy 1st - 4th of March 2016. Registration is now open and we encourage you to register as soon as possible as it tends to fill up quickly, deadline 12th of February. Max. 18 participants.
New funding to research infrastructure (07.01.2016)
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Access to surgical services in rural Ethiopia - balancing health, finance and equity (04.01.2016)
Surgical disease cause a high disease burden and there is limited access to surgical services in low- and middle-income countries. In a new article published in Health Policy and Planning , a DCP-Ethiopia and Priorities2020 team examined how policies to expand access to surgery in rural Ethiopia would impact health, impoverishment and equity.
Jan Haavik, professor ved Institutt for biomedisin, UiB.
EU-project for Jan Haavik (18.12.2015)
KGJN and the ADHD Project is starting a New Collaboration in EU!
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Decision-making in job attendance within health care (16.12.2015)
Kine Melfald Tveten and Tone Morken explored what makes nursing staff with musculoskeletal complaints choose work attendance or sick leave. The article has now been pusblished in Occupational Medicine.
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Pneumonia interventions can provide large health and financial benefits in Ethiopia (15.12.2015)
Vaccine and treatment interventions for children can bring large health and financial benefits to households in Ethiopia, most particularly among the poorest socio-economic groups.
New article: Disease-modifying treatments for multiple sclerosis - a review of approved medications. (07.12.2015)
A review of disease-modifying treatments for multiple sclerosis authored by Øivind Torkildsen and colleagues at the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre for MS Research was published in European Journal of Neurology.

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