News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Research presentation from 2015 (20.01.2016)

Bergen Postgraduate School in Clinical medicine would like to invite you to the upcomming event "Research presentations from 2015".

Supplemental folic acid in pregnancy and risk of maternal and childhood cancer (19.01.2016)

A new study from IGS shows no association between folic acid use before and during pregnancy and the risk of maternal and childhood cancer. The study included more than 430,000 women and 690,000 children in the period 1999-2010, and 3,780 women and 800 children developed cancer. Information on supplement use was obtained from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway.

K.G Jebsen partner participates in a JPND funded research grant (14.01.2016)

The challenge of neurodegenerative disease focusing on Alzheimer’s is the topic in the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND), and also the largest effort of its kind. Clive Bramham has as a partner in a currently funded project received support to study the role of two key molecular players (BDNF and Arc) in neurodegenerative disease.

Access to surgical services in rural Ethiopia - balancing health, finance and equity (04.01.2016)

Surgical disease cause a high disease burden and there is limited access to surgical services in low- and middle-income countries. In a new article published in Health Policy and Planning , a DCP-Ethiopia and Priorities2020 team examined how policies to expand access to surgery in rural Ethiopia would impact health, impoverishment and equity.