Twenty five percent of teenagers in Sweden do not brush their teeth regularly and only 10% of Swedes know how to use toothpaste effectively, according to researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. Even though the majority of peop…
Children are nearly 50% more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life if their mothers are sensitive to wheat protein gluten, say researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. The study, publishe…
Researchers have found that severely obese children respond well to behavioral treatment, but not severely obese adolescents. The study, conducted by Dr. Pernilla Danielsson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, was presented at the 19th European …
In a study published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Mr. Sven Sandin, of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and King’s College London, researchers analyzed past studies to investiga…
A woman whose menopause arrives early has nearly double the risk of suffering form osteoporosis later on, compared to other females, researchers from SkÃ¥ne University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden, reported in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics …
New research findings show how it may be possible to render cancer tumours harmless without affecting the other cells and tissues in the body. The findings apply to cancers including breast, lung and bowel cancer. The study was carried out at Lund Univ…
Patients with Huntington’s disease have a considerably lower risk of developing cancer, researchers from Lund University, and SkÃ¥ne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden, reported in the journal Lancet Oncology. The same applies to other polyQ (poly…
Subjects in a cohort in Sweden, some of whom had been exposed to a community intervention program to prevent diabetes, were evaluated 8-10 years after baseline for the presence of diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose metabolism (“pre-diabetes”) in rel…
This conference is the only event looking directly at ongoing reforms regarding pricing, reimbursement and funding of drugs specifically for the Nordic countries. Payers and HTAs will discuss how they are appraising health technologies, defining value,…
Given that almost 70% of young adults with Asperger syndrome have suffered from depression, it is vital that psychiatric care staff are aware of this so that patients are given the right treatment, reveals research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the U…
