News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Students and employees at the KGJN recently met for a scientific symposium at the Hotel Terminus. It was a successful meeting with many participants, interesting science and fun socializing.

Being better able to identify the most seriously ill infants is of great importance in terms of being best able to prioritise health resources, particularly is developing countries where such resources are limited. Two researchers from the Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) were part of a study that has identified predictors of recovery time in infants with... Read more

The study will examine links between adolescent pregnancies and different approaches to empower adolescent girls in Zambia.

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.