Using the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months. The tool has been developed by a research group at Uppsala University ...
Feb 12, 2024
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Upper secondary school students were less likely to seek help for ill mental health when they were forced to study at home during the pandemic. A similar decrease was not seen for secondary school students aged 14–16 who ...
Feb 5, 2024
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Whether infants at 5 months of age look mostly at faces or non-social objects such as cars or mobile phones is largely determined by genes. This has now been demonstrated by researchers at Uppsala University and Karolinska ...
Nov 27, 2023
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The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 led to the spread of radioactivity across Sweden and Europe. In a long-term study now published in Environmental Epidemiology, researchers have used new, more specific calculation ...
Nov 13, 2023
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Researchers have identified a new neural circuit in the brain which produces a strong sense of discomfort when activated. The discovery also allows them to show for the first time that the subthalamic nucleus, a structure ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Young children are able to talk in detail about their feelings and how things are at home. They are also good at reading their parents and their emotions by describing their behaviors, facial expressions and tone of voice. ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Women with a high genetic predisposition for blood clots are six times more likely to develop a blood clot during the first two years of using contraceptive pills according to a new study from Uppsala University. The results ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Survival rates for men with metastatic prostate cancer have increased by an average of six months, something which coincides with the gradual introduction of "dual treatment" since 2016. This is according to a register study ...
Oct 2, 2023
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There was a significant difference in the speed with which different groups were vaccinated against COVID-19. One explanation could be that people absorb information and make decisions in different ways. A new study shows ...
Sep 7, 2023
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Researchers at Uppsala university have developed a new method to find mutations in brain tumors in children. They also showed that the mutations change how cancer cells respond to a cancer drug. These findings could lead ...
Aug 7, 2023
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