News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Global Health Challenges (10.11.2011)

From Monday 31 October to Thursday 3 November the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development will host a wide range of lectures, discussions and even a book launch.

Small cell lung cancer in a 14-year-old girl (08.11.2011)

Small cell lung cancer is an aggressive cancer that is associated with early metastases, smoking, good initial response of chemotherapy, high risk of relapse and high mortality. The paper is the first complete case-story of a small cell lung cancer in a pediatric patient. The article was published in Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

New publication: Familiarisation to body weight supported treadmill training for patients post-stroke (08.11.2011)

For many patients is walking on a treadmill with body weight support (BWSTT) a new and challenging task.The researchers investigated if patients post-stroke stabilise their walking pattern during familiarisation and found that 5-min was sufficient to achieve relatively stable walking during BWSTT.

The Physiotherapy Research group celebrated its 20th anniversary (31.10.2011)

It was 20 years ago when the masterprogram in physiotherapy sciences was established. On Friday 28th the jubilee was celebrated to commemorate the event and the history of the research group

The winner of the Sci-preneurship 2011 contest was "Fresh Meat", with Maite...

Biorecognition student wins international contest (26.10.2011)

Maite Bezem, a master’s student in the Biorecognition research group, was a member of the team that won the international Sci-preneurship Contest held in Brussels.

Tone Bjørge is professor at the Department of Public Health and Primary...

Metabolic risk factors and ovarian cancer in the Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer project (25.10.2011)

The Cell Sorting facility has moved (24.10.2011)

New Location: Gades Institute, Lab Building, 5th floor, "Forskningslaboratorier"

Research presentations from 2011 (13.10.2011)

Researchers from all three clinical departments (Clinical Medicine, Medicine, and Surgical sciences) are hereby invited to present their work to fellow researchers and the general audience. If you have presented a poster or had an oral presentation at a scientific meeting or a conference in 2011, you are welcome to submit your work. It is possible to submit several abstracts, but each abstract... Read more

Stefan De Vogel has published an article at the journal of Cancer, biomarkers & prevention where he shows that high plasma concentrations of methionine and betaine, and vitamins B2 and B6 may reduce risk of developing colorectal adenomas. In addition to B-vitamins, methyl group donors such as methionine and betaine may play a role in colorectal carcinogenesis.

Course in Small Animal MRI (06.10.2011)

Date: Oct 25th-27th, 2011. Organized by Tina Pavlin, MIC Bergen

Nordic Social Pharmacy and Health Services Research Conference (NSPC), June 15-16, 2011, Reykjavik (07.09.2011)

Several researchers from Bergen presented at the 5th Nordic Social Pharmacy and Health Services Research Conference. Dr. Linda Strand was one of the invited speakers, reflecting over 20 years of pharmaceutical care practice.