Traditional rat poison causes small rodents to die from internal bleeding within a few days. The active substances prevent the blood from clotting.

Margit Gausdal Strandenæs,1–3 Anne Lund,4 Anne Marie Mork Rokstad1,5 1Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, ...

Most often found in bone marrow sites, multiple myeloma is considered a chronic disease, although several new treatment options have increased the survival ...

M Sahba,1 AH Krog,1 EM Pettersen,2 T Wisløff,3,4 KG Rogne,5 JO Sundhagen,6 SSH Kazmi6,7 1Department of Vascular Surgery, Ostfold Central Hospital, ...

During the last week of June, there was a buzz online among Filipinos about a so-called “craft gin” that supposedly resulted in the poisoning of two people.

The 3-drug combination of encorafenib, binimetinib and cetuximab significantly improved overall survival (OS) in patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic ...

The primary aim was to determine the Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of 18F-fluciclovine PET to detect glioma in comparison to a histopathological truth ...

Published: Jun 25, 2019. Oslo, Norway, June 25, 2019 - Zelluna Immunotherapy, the biotechnology company specializing in T-cell receptor (TCR) ...

Vycellix Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board - read this article along with other careers information, tips and advice on BioSpace.

A new report shows that ensuring sufficient levels of zinc and long chain omega-3 fatty acids in salmon feed can help improve the gut and gill health of salmon ...

Patients at Oslo University hospital can escape the gruelling reality of medical treatment at a custom-built woodland retreat.

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 ...

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.

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

Vycellix founders awarded major Swedish grant to establish world-class research center for development of NK cell-based cancer immunotherapies.

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

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.

architecture firm snøhetta has built a pair of outdoor care retreats a short walking distance from two of norway's largest hospitals.

The Outdoor Care Retreats let nature give a valuable boost in creating a respite from the sterile and stringent hospital environment. We are fortunate to have ...

Completed in 2018 in Ris, Norway. Images by Ivar Kvaal. Leaning towards the lush forest and the trickling Sognsvann creek, the Outdoor Care Retreat is located ...

Norway's largest hospitals are now prescribing a little escape to nature for healing. Check out these serene forest cabins for hospital patients in Norway.

Mediation broke down during the night between hospital administrators and unions representing mostly non-medical hospital personnel who've been seeking ...

CHICAGO — Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal liver metastases nearly equaled or surpassed open surgery for almost all outcomes, according to results of the ...

Similar long-term rates of survival were seen in patients with colorectal cancer and liver metastases regardless of whether the patient underwent laparoscopic or ...

EDAP to Provide Live Demonstrations and Host Q&A with Interested Parties at Booth #2211. LYON, France, April 29, 2019 -- EDAP TMS SA (Nasdaq:EDAP), the ...

"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 ...

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

Regional Norwegian costumes known as a bunad have long been a symbol of national pride and identity, and worn on special or formal occasions. In recent ...

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 ...

Oslo (Norway), 2 May 2019 – PCI Biotech (OSE: PCIB), a cancer focused clinical-stage company developing innovative therapeutics that address significant ...

Heart failure patients who consume more dietary fiber tend to have healthier gut bacteria, which is associated with reduced risk of death or need of a heart ...

Data from the randomized OSLO-COMET trial were presented at ASCO 2019, revealing the survival of laparoscopic vs open surgery for liver metastases in ...

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

Sigbjørn Berentsen,1 Alexander Röth,2 Ulla Randen,3 Bernd Jilma,4 Geir E Tjønnfjord5–7 1Department of Research and Innovation, Haugesund Hospital, ...

After reading about the outdoor Norwegian hospitals, I'm really wishing we'd had our children in Norway.

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

Elevated levels of cortisol in the hair of adult patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder indicate a history of childhood trauma and poorer cognitive ...

Guri Hagberg,1,2 Brynjar Fure,3 Else Charlotte Sandset,4 Bente Thommessen,5 Håkon Ihle-Hansen,1,2 Anne Rita Øksengård,1 Ståle Nygård,6 Torgeir B Wyller ...

BMJ 2019; 364 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l231 (Published 13 February 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;364:l231. Linked Editorial. Searching for the missing ...

OSLO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- New research showed that 80 percent of those who had been injured in the terror attacks on July 22, 2011, in Norway had chronic ...

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

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.

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

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a comprehensive evaluation by Sykehusbygg HF Norway and regional health authorities, Varian ...

LISBON, Portugal — The regular application of an emollient on the skin of babies in their first year of life does not prevent eczema, according to results from two ...

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.

Mortality climbs for patients with severe aortic stenosis who don't get a valve replacement because they are asymptomatic, especially if their natriuretic peptides ...

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. VAR recently announced that it will exhibit its new ProBeam 360° proton therapy system from Jun 12 to Jun 15 in Manchester, the ...

Mediation was underway Thursday in the hopes of averting major strikes in the public sector that could affect police districts, health care services and schools in ...

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

DALLAS -- The tyrosine kinase inhibitor nintedanib (Ofev) appeared to slow the progression of systemic sclerosis–associated interstitial lung disease, the phase ...

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 ...

Despite the worldwide dissemination and acceptance of laparoscopic liver surgery, the long-term oncologic outcomes of laparoscopic and open liver surgery ...

Schizophrenia appears to be associated with increased interindividual differences in brain structure, suggesting that it is a highly heterogeneous disorder, ...

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.

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 ...

A new meta-analysis of six sham-controlled studies of renal sympathetic denervation has shown a significant reduction in blood pressure with the technique.

(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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Amsterdam, March 28, 2018 - Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) fail to detect half of the patients in need of ...

We present the results of a multicenter retrospective study of 35 difficult-to-treat patients with urinary tract infections associated with indwelling urinary catheters ...

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

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 new research paper launches critique of the current anti-doping system and calls the regulation under WADA 'arbitrary and too often not grounded in a solid ...

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 ...

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

When Najila Trindade told Neymar da Silva Santos Junior that she would like to see him but the flights to Paris were too expensive, he said not to worry.

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

The incidence of colon and rectal cancer in adults younger than 50 years has increased substantially over the latest available 10-year period in several ...

Recently, a quiet revolution has begun to change the way people think about their spaces, both at home and at work. It centers on the idea that the great indoors ...

Laparoscopy vs. open surgery for liver metastases, a more lenient approach to clinical trials, a novel new drug for urothelial cancer, and more cancer research ...

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 ...

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

The Scientist's Channel enables scientists to present their work and share innovations and expertise by broadcasting to a global audience through a fully ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Patients with juvenile mixed connective tissue disease had impaired left and right ventricular function compared with matched controls after a median of 15 years ...

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.

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

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,* ...

Published: Dec 19, 2018. Martinsried/Munich (pta/19.12.2018/21:41). - Topline-data from first half of treatment period (one year) - Very good feasibility of the ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Recently, a number of people -- of widely different ages and levels of education -- have contacted me for advice on whether or not pursuing a PhD in ...

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

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 ...

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.

Women who participated in a supervised exercise program while undergoing breast cancer treatment had better cardiovascular fitness than women who were ...