News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Doctoral thesis defense (12.12.2016)

Tissue Engineering group member Sushma Bartaula-Brevik successfully defended her PhD thesis "Vascularization and Host Response in Bone Tissue Engineering" on 07.12.16.

The Norwegian student introductory week: who takes part, and is participation associated with better social integration and satisfaction among students? (09.12.2016)

In this study we found that more than 70% of students were satisfied with the introductory week and the opportunity it provided for getting to know other students.

Lung function decline in menopausal women (05.12.2016)

Menopausal women appear to experience a decline in lung function, comparable to smoking 20 cigarettes a day for 10 years.

Prevention of cardiovascular disease in Tanzania is cost-effective (01.12.2016)

Today Frida Ngalesoni defended her highly impressive and important dissertation “Economics of non-communicable diseases prevention. Cost-effectiveness and equity impact of primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in Tanzania.” The research group warmly congratulate!

People attending a workshop, sitting around a conference table, talking

'Small Fish and Food Security' workshop (01.12.2016)

For the first time the potential of small fish to reach the sustainable development goals was discussed across disciplines, with a case focus on Ghana.