News archive for Faculty of Medicine

How to scale-up neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia (28.10.2015)

A contextualized cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia could advise authorities to prioritize between treatments. Epilepsy treatment is most cost-effective, while treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder avert fewer DALYs.

Parental age and risk of cleft lip (28.10.2015)

When both parents are old, the risk of cleft palate in the offspring is increased, but not if only one parent is older than 31 years (mothers) or 34 years (fathers).

Association between maternal preeclampsia and congenital heart defect in the offspring. (27.10.2015)

The prevalence of severe congenital heart defects is increased among newborns of mothers who experienced preeclampsia during pregnancy, especially if the preeclampsia was early onset.

Researchers K1, K2 and Helse-Bergen are hereby invited to present their work to fellow researchers and the general audience

IGSIN course participants at Mount Ulriken

The First Course in the MiND H2020 Research Training Network Completed (26.10.2015)

From September 28-October 9th 2015, KGJN hosted the first research training course in the new H2020-funded project “MiND" on ADHD and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Resource scarcity requires difficult choices in Ethiopia (15.10.2015)

Nine out of ten physicians have regretted their choice of profession due to lack of resources and difficult rationing dilemmas.

Review article. Exploring the potential of public proteomics data (14.10.2015)

Researchers associated with KGJ Centre for MS Research have recently published a review article on the potential of public proteomics data, in Proteomics.

Bilde fra prosjektet SeeTheChild - Uganda

Neurodevelopment and mental health of children (09.10.2015)

In early October the Research Group for Global Mental Health at CIH attended the 15th Congress of the International Federation for Psychiatric Epidemiology and hosted one of the symposia.