It's a cold snowy winter's day in Norway, but the Skogen Tangeraas family sitting around a bonfire in some woodland don't seem to care. They're too busy ...

A new study in the Journal of Public Health finds that women in Norway from immigrant backgrounds are more likely to be overweight during pregnancy.

Monica Aas is the Principal investigator (PI) on the project “Stress Under Skin” (SUS). NORMENT, Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and ...

Scientists have found that men with high neuroticism -- between a quarter and a fifth of men in developed countries -- are significantly more likely to suffer from ...

The theme "Advancements and New Outlook in Hematology.” Format: keynote presentations, oral talks, poster presentation, and exhibition. The conference ...

Gluten intake is not associated with islet autoimmunity or progression to type 1 diabetes in high-risk older infants and toddlers, according to results from the ...

Someone has tried to poison Norway's largest wolf pack, known as Kynnareviret, which roams in an area between Våler and Åsnes in Hedmark County. Police ...

Norway's Crown Prince Haakon has undergone surgery for a condition known commonly as Surfers' Ear, followin...

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncoinvent is pleased to announce that the Oslo University Hospital and Oncoinvent have each been awarded ...

Benign biopsy rates are reduced, while the number of cancers detected remains the same, if digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is used, according to a UK study.

Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the economic costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of ...

Lowering your blood pressure takes more than just limiting salt. These foods can help you lower high blood pressure without medication.

Oslo University Hospital is working with defense, research and meteorological groups on establishing safe, aerial deliveries of biological samples.

Even though it looks like it's buried deep in the Norwegian forest, the outdoor care center is only 650 feet from the Oslo University Hospital.

Two matching elevated cabins have been nestled into a woodland by Snøhetta, to improve the treatment of patients at two of Norway's largest hospitals by ...

The project, based in Norway, brings patients into nature for physical and psychological healing.

Patients at two of Norway's largest hospitals can now find respite in Snøhetta's newly unveiled Outdoor Care Retreats. Designed for the Friluftssykehuset ...

Low fitness levels have long been tied to higher risk for heart problems. Now researchers say men's cardiorespiratory fitness is tied to their risk for stroke, as well.

Snøhetta has recently finished work on a pair of cabins for healing in the Norwegian woods. The Outdoor Care Retreats, as the structures are known, are ...

We hear a lot about the healing benefits of nature. Recently a team has opened an outdoor healing center in a forest in Norway so patients at Oslo University ...

"We feel included": education and inclusion of health care staff with minority language in elder care Kariann Krohne,1,2 Betty Døble,1,2 Aud Johannessen,1,3 ...

Researchers have now found out what happens when normal cells develop into breast cancer. This finding can lead to more individualized treatment: the right ...

Women who took part in a supervised exercise program during adjuvant treatment for breast cancer had better cardiovascular function than women who did not ...

A survey of 61 psychiatric departments in 2017 shows that Norway's health care system has difficulty helping patients with very serious self-harming behaviour.

Fecal microbiota profiles in treatment-naive pediatric inflammatory bowel disease - associations with disease phenotype, treatment, and outcome.

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This article was originally published on Apollon - Research magazine from The University of Oslo. Read the original article.

Adults with long-lasting juvenile idiopathic arthritis have altered arterial properties related to cardiovascular risk, such as arterial stiffness, mainly linked to daily ...

In an important contribution to improving health in Norway, a new drone delivery project is being undertaken by the Oslo University Hospital (OUS). The Defense ...

Exercise capacity in COPD patients with exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension Ingunn Skjørten,1,2 Janne Mykland Hilde,3 Morten Nissen Melsom,1 Jonny ...

Just days after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced a Peace Prize that boosts awareness of sexual violence, comes news that rape remains a major ...

The treatment for extended care patients in some of Norway?s most important hospitals includes spending time in the woods in contact with nature but in the.

GutHeart Trial will examine relationship between gut microbiome and inflammatory pathways in the heart.

(Reuters Health) - Low fitness levels have long been tied to higher risk for heart problems. Now researchers say men's cardiorespiratory fitness is tied to their risk ...

As the tiny Norwegian biotech gears up to put its first asset into the clinic, investors could use an ongoing trial to handicap its chances of success. Skyline of Oslo.

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oslo in Norway used DNA origami to demonstrate the most accurate distance between densely ...

A team of researchers performed experiments on blood-deprived cells that were subsequently exposed to blood serum. Remarkably, all the cells started to move ...

Poop transplants, also known as fecal transplants, may work as well as antibiotics in treating patients with diarrhea caused by C. difficile.

A new method of measuring distance using origami-inspired nanostructures could be the key to making antibodies more effective, a study says.

High mortality due to cutaneous melanoma in Norway: a study of prognostic factors in a nationwide cancer registry Trude Eid Robsahm,1,* Per Helsing,2,* ...

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, had its origins in Africa in chimpanzees. It was probably transmitted to people from bloody meat that hunters brought home to ...

The 2018 PRIO Annual Peace Address will be given by Debarati Guha-Sapir. She is the Director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters ...

Remaining fit throughout your lifetime may help lower the risk of stroke. Strokes are on the rise in younger adults, but maintaining a cardio fitness routine may ...

Higher-dose opioids impair driving performance to a minor degree, but patients still need to be advised of this risk so they can decide whether to steer clear of ...

LDL cholesterol and HbA1c levels in adults with type 1 diabetes may be associated with coronary artery disease, which is highly prevalent in older adults with ...

A new study finds that the influence of single analgesic doses of methadone and buprenorphine -- two different opioids -- on driving performance was mild and ...

Age Labs is pleased to announce that the Research Council of Norway has awarded €1 million in R&D funding to support Age Labs in developing a uniq.

A team of researchers have performed experiments on blood-deprived cells that were exposed to blood serum, revealing insights into wound healing.

A team of medical researchers are calling attention to the links between liver disease in sub-Saharan Africa and the role of chewing khat, the plant commonly.

The dynamics of self-care in the course of heart failure management: data from the IN TOUCH study Edita Lycholip,1,2 Ina Thon Aamodt,3,4 Irene Lie,3 Toma ...

Norway can become the third country in the world that bans solariums, as a new strategy to reduce the number of skin cancer cases in the country. Skin cancer is ...

The risks of driving with treatment-level doses of opioids in your system appear to be quite low but it's still best to be cautious, Norwegian research suggests.

Scandinavian women are waiting longer to have children. Last year in Norway, 138 women over age 45 had children – twice as many as ten years earlier, ...

Researchers in Oslo have been working for years on turning 2D medical imagery into 3D but now they've used Microsoft's HoloLens to give surgeons more ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Starting this weekend, Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease will provide live coverage from The Liver Meeting 2018.The meeting will ...

A structured exercise program during treatment helps preserve cardiovascular function in breast cancer patients at both 6 and 12 months compared with ...

The Norwegian government is providing three EpiShuttles to the World Health Organization (WHO). The EpiShuttle single-patient units have been developed in ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union's (EU's) new data privacy law, aims to strike a balance between an individual's rights to ...

A Great Britain man's BMW 323 was incorrectly designated as abandoned in a hospital lot by the Flintshire, Wales city council as he was having ankle surgery.

Disease-associated polymorphisms can give insight into protein function, particularly for receptors whose ligands are unknown or controversial. Polymorphisms ...

Women's bodies are different from men's. We need to understand women's health better, says medical doctor and professor Johanne Sundby. Keywords: ...

Type 2 diabetes is one of the major chronic diseases and the patient group has increased year upon year, "therefore, it is great to see the decline in the number ...

Thorbjørn Harr was holding his one-day-old daughter when the wounded began to arrive. The Norwegian actor and his wife were in the maternity ward at Oslo ...

Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has been diagnosed with a lung disease at the age of 45. The Royal Court of Norway revealed the royal's chronic pulmonary ...

Norway's crown princess is suffering from a rare chronic lung disease, the country's royal family has confirmed. Princess Mette-Marit, who married Crown Prince ...

In their Comment, Sandro Vento and colleagues (October, 2018). Vento S; Dzudzor B; Cainelli F; Tachi K. Liver cirrhosis in sub-Saharan Africa: neglected, yet ...

The Government has decided to provide NOK 10 million to the World Health Organization's (WHO) response to the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic ...

The bacterium Clostridium difficile's name gives you a hint of how hard this intestinal organism can be on the body — and how extremely difficult it can be to ...

The long-term effects of sigmoidoscopy screening on colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in women and men are unclear. Objective: To determine ...

MUNICH, Germany—It's a credit to the curious minds drawn to the field of cardiology that this specialty enjoys a depth and breadth of clinical research not seen ...

The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo are drawing nearer with every passing month, and Hosei University is planning ahead with drone-centric tests to ...

Myeloid cells, such as dendritic cells and macrophages, in the central nervous system (CNS) play critical roles in the initiation and exacerbation of multiple ...

Investigators compared the use of multiple simultaneous vs single sequential microelectrode records to examine the efficacy of subthalamic DBS.

MUNICH, Germany (UPDATED)—Aspirin reduces serious vascular events when used for primary CV prevention in patients with diabetes, but the cost in terms of ...

Three Oral and Four Poster Presentations Covering Product Pipeline Accepted for Presentation. Company to Host Investor Event at ASH on November 30.

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-led research team has demonstrated, for the first time, how solid stress - the physical forces exerted by the solid ...

The Norwegian Royal Court has released two new pictures to celebrate the 13th birthday of Prince Sverre Magnus. One of the photos shows him sharing a hug ...

Oslo Police announced that the furniture maker who is prosecuted for human trafficking have brought an additional six Filipinos to Norway in addition to the three ...

In the late 1970s, a man with an unexplained high hemoglobin level (Hb) was referred to Namsos Hospital north of Trondheim, Norway. It turned out that four ...

Internationally known, knee ligament researcher, Lars Engebretsen, M.D., Ph.D., will be inducted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine ...

Distinct pain profiles in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Signe B Bentsen,1 Christine Miaskowski,2 Bruce A Cooper,3 Vivi L Christensen,4,5 ...

PRINCESS METTE-MARIT, the Crown Princess of Norway, was all smiles as she stepped out with her husband, Crown Prince Haakon, in Oslo, Norway tonight.

Heart failure is just that – a condition when the heart is no longer doing its job properly.

Three ambitious Indian men in their early to mid-twenties have launched an aerial delivery startup called Air Aid, with its “Bloodstream” project aimed at ...

The Norwegian government plans to develop a comprehensive strategy for using Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to Digitisation Minister Nikolai Astrup.

This summer I had the distinct privilege of touring one of the most forward-thinking EMS systems on the globe. The Oslo University Hospital in Norway runs a ...

Nature talks to co-production expert Tina Coldham about how involving the public in decision-making can help scientists to broaden their reach and improve ...

THIS IS the stunning blonde dating ex-Premier League referee Bobby Madley.

Referee Bobby Madley has spoken for the first time about the police protection his family received after threats following his dismissal from the Premier League ...

Munich, Germany, 22 October 2018 - Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab improves survival in patients with head and neck cancer that has recurred or ...

Ibuprofen, given instead of antibiotics to women with uncomplicated urinary tract infection (cystitis), leads to longer duration of symptoms and more serious ...

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Misconceptions have hampered efforts to prevent fatalities from methanol poisoning that recently killed 60 people in West Java.

In near future computers will learn to recognize cancer. To achieve this they will need huge amounts of patient data. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer ...

The genomes of ancient humans can reveal patterns of early human migration (see the Perspective by Achilli et al.). Iceland has a genetically distinct population, ...

If you experience frequent or intense heartburn, it might be gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Here's what you can do to stop the pain.

Its installation at Oslo University Hospital may have sparked a movement within hospitals around Europe, but bringing the concept for the first 4K over IP.

Norway's 80-year-old King Harald was released from hospital on Monday after being treated for three days for an infection, and is in "fine form", the palace said.

Intensive blood pressure (BP) reduction in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis reduces intracranial bleeding, but does not ...

Some brain networks become more densely connected during adolescence while others become less so, according to a new analysis published in eNeuro of ...