Trude R Balstad,1,2 Asta Bye,3,4 Cathrine RS Jenssen,1 Tora S Solheim,1,2 Lene Thoresen,2,5 Kari Sand1,2,6 1Department of Clinical and Molecular ...

Abhilash D Pandya,1 Eliézer Jäger,2 Shahla Bagheri Fam,3 Anita Höcherl,2 Alessandro Jäger,2 Vladimir Sincari,2 Bo Nyström,4 Petr Štěpánek,2 Tore Skotland ...

Journal of Refractive Surgery | PURPOSE:To evaluate the outcomes of transepithelial, topography-guided, epithelial mapping–assisted ablation in the treatment ...

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Exploring geographical differences in the incidence of colorectal cancer in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study: a population-based prospective study.

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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels predict cancer survival: a prospective cohort with measurements prior to and at the time of cancer diagnosis.

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Mindfulness and self-efficacy in pain perception, stress and academic performance. The influence of mindfulness on cognitive processes.

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Previously, researchers at Nofima, an applied research institute for fisheries, aquaculture and food in Norway, reported that salmon skin is strengthened if there ...

Got a stomach ache? Gas? Bloating? New research shows gluten might not be the culprit after all and it could be related to fructan in your diet.

Investigators pooled older and new data from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database, tracking outcomes for different mutations across age and gender ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Design practice Snøhetta has created a series of secluded wooden shelters for Norway's largest hospitals.

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.

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.

Triplet Judit Minda was shocked when she found out she was pregnant with triplets. The natural triplet naturally conceived triplets of her own.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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.

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The pain in Susan Hahla's feet started as pins and needles, then progressed to flickering fires. Each month, Hahla found herself in a different doctor's office, ...

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

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

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 ...

Solrun Brenk Rønning,1 Stål Bjørkly1,2 1Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Care, Molde University College, Molde, Norway; 2Centre for Research and ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

A woman who is a triplet herself is sharing her journey of becoming a mom to triplets of her own. Judit Agota Minda and her fiance, Glenn Undheim welcomed ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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

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Three years after a radical prostatectomy, men with the personality trait of neuroticism scored worse on urinary, bowel, sexual, and hormonal domains.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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Chicago, IL (UroToday.com) Two PET/CT imaging tests for detection and localization of prostate cancer tumor sites in patients with biochemical recurrence have ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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