Today, the main focus is on lowering high cholesterol levels in adults in order to prevent atherosclerosis. Professor Kirsten Holvenat the Department of Nutrition at the University of Osloissues a clear warning: we start ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder. Worldwide, it affects about one in a hundred people in their lifetimes. No one knows exactly why some people develop schizophrenia, but it is known that a combination of biological ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Women know less about the so-called overdiagnosis of breast cancer compared to other aspects of mammogram screening. Despite this, there are few indications that women drop out of mammogram screening programs after receiving ...
Feb 15, 2022
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A new vaccine against tuberculosis may also be used as treatment. The vaccine is safe to give to people with tuberculosis disease and strengthens the immune system's ability to attack the bacteria that cause the disease, ...
Jan 28, 2022
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Different diseases have different methods for testing if a person has the disease or not. immuneML, a new open source machine learning platform, can potentially look for a lot of diseases in just one blood sample.
Jan 26, 2022
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Ground water is the main source of iodine to the Somali population, but the geographical variation is considerable. While earlier studies from the region have concluded the iodine intake to be excessive or that there is general ...
Jan 17, 2022
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One in six Norwegians over 80 is affected by Alzheimer's disease. Numbers are even higher worldwide, and there is still no cure available.
Jan 6, 2022
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The surface of our brain, the cortex, is folded into an intricate pattern of bumps (gyri) and grooves (sulci). While individual differences in this pattern have been linked to brain disorders and cognitive performance, very ...
Dec 21, 2021
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When a pandemic occurs, public confidence is at stake: both trust between people and the people's trust in the authorities, according to Øyvind Ihlen, media researcher at the University of Oslo.
Dec 6, 2021
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The liver is important for more than you think—including a good immune system, the regulation of blood sugar levels, the handling of waste products—and about 500 other necessary household tasks in the body. Some of the ...
Dec 3, 2021
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