News archive for Faculty of Medicine

PhD Candidate Phyllis Awor is part of a research group working on improving quality of care at drug shops in Uganda.

The University of Bergen’s (UiB’s) Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) 2015 is being held 15-27 June. The faculty team leading this summer’s programme are largely based at UiB’s Centre for International Health (CIH).

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.