News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Stakeholders give input to the minister for health (30.01.2018)

At the UiB, health minister Bent Høie met representatives of the health industry and health institutions to receive input for a new parliamentary report on the health industry.

Importance of Randomized Control Trials (29.01.2018)

Large-scale and long-term, RCTs can, in turn, generate further research projects and capacity-strengthening opportunities.

Towards universal health coverage for undocumented migrants? (23.01.2018)

Commentary by Andrea Melberg, Kristine Husøy Onarheim, Astrid Onarheim Spjeldnæs, Ingrid Miljeteig

The paradox of access - abortion law, policy and misoprostol (23.01.2018)

Commentary by Karen Marie Moland, Haldis Haukanes, Getnet Tadele, Astrid Blystad

Alumni of the month: Hope Corbin (19.01.2018)

Meeting a foreign culture can be challenging, but for our alumni of the month Hope Corbin, studying in Norway was a great experience. 'Get involved' and 'listen to others' is Corbin's advice to students. Today she is an Associate Professor at the Western Washington University, but has returned to Bergen as a guest to work with colleagues on the Refugee Resilience Network project and to create... Read more

A practical approch to STED-imaging (18.01.2018)

Virtual Mobility (17.01.2018)

The University of Bergen, Centre for International Health and two other partners in the educational network TropEd have been collaborating since 2016 to create an Erasmus plus project in Global Health Education that involves students being virtually mobile instead of physically so.

EU-millions to bone building-project (16.01.2018)

Professor Kamal Mustafa at Deparment of Clinical Dentistry leads the first clinical trials on stem cell bone building. The project can lead to new and faster treatment.

IGS General Assembly 10 Jan. 2018 (15.01.2018)

Summarizing 2017 at IGS

Power stations in cells may protect brain against Parkinson´s (12.01.2018)

A UiB-study shows that impairment in mitochondria may actually protect the brain in Parkinson’s disease.

NORHED Success Story! (11.01.2018)

The HI-TRAIN collaboration has established capacity-building courses in Health Information Technology in Kenya and Uganda that will continue after the project period.

Women with ADHD often develop anxiety and depression (04.01.2018)

Compared with adult men with ADHD, adult ADHD women have an increased risk of experiencing anxiety and depression, shows a new UiB study. Men with ADHD in contrast suffer more from substance abuse and schizophrenia.