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Lars Akslen and Marion Solheim speaking at a conference about communication.
Excellent communication at CCBIO (19.06.2015)
Centre Director Lars A. Akslen and Communications Adviser at CCBIO Marion Solheim were invited to the NUAS conference at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm to share how CCBIO communicate their research activities.
Kjell-Morten Myhr
New article: The Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Registry and Biobank (17.06.2015)
Kjell-Morten Myhr and co-authors associated with Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre for MS Research have recently published an article on The Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Registry and Biobank in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.
Nina Grytten
Review article: Time trends in the incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Norway during eight decades (17.06.2015)
Researchers at Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre for MS Research have recently published a reviewarticle on studies on incidence and prevalence of MS in Norway, in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.
Bridging Nordic Imaging
Brigding Nordic Imaging (17.06.2015)
A network seminar series to promote collaboration between Nordic countries in biological and medical imaging. 1st seminar in Turku 13th-14th of August 2015.
riding bicyckles in forest
How should we understand equality in health? (15.06.2015)
Is equality best understood as a distributive concern, or should it be viewed as a social and political ideal? The former view dominates in the justice and health literature, but in a new essay Gry Wester and Kristin Vogt explore the latter view.
Kjetil
New study. Level of education and the risk of multiple sclerosis after adjustment for known risk factors (04.06.2015)
Kjetil Bjørnevik (picture) and co-authors have recently published a new study on the association between level of education and the risk of multiple sclerosis in Multiple Sclerosis Journal. The objective of the study was to examine whether any of the established risk factors for the disease could explain the association.
Intensive care unit
Are rationing of ICU services too strict in Norway? (28.05.2015)
Estimates of the expected remaining lifetime of critically ill patients and expected life years gained from intensive care unit (ICU) admission could inform priority setting of intensive care.
Førsteforfatter Sara Ghaderi
Educational achievements among survivors of childhood cancer (27.05.2015)
A new study from IGS shows that an overall lower proportion of survivors of cancer diagnosed at young ages (<19 years) completed their education compared with the cancer-free population.
Professor Roger Strand i klasserommet
Challenging young researchers on life and death (26.05.2015)
A new course at the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers aims to support young cancer researchers to make good decisions in matters of life and death.
Helicopter rescue
Minutes are Critical (25.05.2015)
Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) have a number of theoretical advantages. After nearly 30 years in operation, how is the Norwegian HEMS doing in terms of flying times and primary mission rates?
The participants at the Centre for Cancer Biomarker's third annual symposium at Solstrand, south of Bergen, in May 2015.
World leading cancer researchers met at Solstrand (22.05.2015)
Many of the world's top cancer researchers presented the latest in cancer research when the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers invited to a two-day symposium at Solstrand.
GLOBVAC conference 2015, the Bergen team
Did you miss the 2015 GLOBVAC conference? Presentations now available online. (18.05.2015)
Videos, pictures and presentations from all key notes and symposia speakers are now available on the GLOBVAC conference website.
GROWNUT project meeting
Important Meeting on Nutrition at University of Kishasha (12.05.2015)
Friday May 8, the Minster for Higher Education and Universities in DR Congo, Dr Théophile Mbemba Fundu, invited to an awareness-raising of GROWNUT.
african child
Rotavirus vaccination increases effect of diarrhoeal treatment in Ethiopia (07.05.2015)
Deaths due to diarrhoea is one of the main killers of children in Sub Saharan Africa. In a new paper published in BMJ open Solomon Tessema Memire and Kjell Arne Johansson together with US examine the impact of universal public financing of rotavirus vaccination and diarrhoeal treatment in Ethiopia.
Marianna Cortese
New study. Vitamin D exposure and MS risk- timing seems to matter (07.05.2015)
Researchers at The National Multiple Sclerosis Competence Centre published an article about the timing of vitamin D exposure and MS risk in May 2015 in Multiple Sclerosis Journal.
Unfair health inequalities
Unexplained health inequality - is it unfair? (07.05.2015)
Identifying unfair health inequality is important in order to make correct priorities in health. But only a portion of observed health inequality can be explaind empircaly. A new paper explains why how we treat this unexplained inequality is not only a methodological question, but also an ethical one.
COST-Action (TD1005) International researchers
Pain in Dementia - Future Directions (30.04.2015)
The 7th International Congress of Pain in Dementia gathered leading researchers on dementia in Bergen, Norway. The goal was to share knowledge, raise awareness and find solutions to challenges related to pain in people with dementia.
man walking
Walking speed relates to life expectancy (30.04.2015)
Mona Kristin Aaslund is a post doc in the Physiotherapy Research Group at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen. She has together with several Norwegian colleagues written a chronicle about research that is demonstrating that a person’s walking speed may indicate something of that person’s health status and life expectancy.

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