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New study: Reduced duration of breastfeeding is associated with a higher risk of multiple sclerosis (25.03.2015)
Researchers at the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Cebtre for MS Research have participated in a study on breastfeeding and risk og MS in Italy and Norway, published in Journal of Neurology in March.
Disease Control Priorities - Essential Priorities
Disease Control Priorities: Essential surgery (24.03.2015)
Improving access to surgical care could save 1.5 million lives per year in poor countries, according to findings released today by the Disease Control Priorities Network at University of Washington’s Department of Global Health.
Altered CEL protein accumulates inside the cells (yellow-green color). Cell nuclei are stained blue.
New fusion gene identified (18.03.2015)
Researchers at the University of Bergen have discovered a gene variant that increases the risk of chronic pancreatitis
Portrettfoto Maria W, Markhus
Disputation: Maria Wik Markhus (16.03.2015)
Date: 18.03.2015
New study: A 60- year follow up of the incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Hordaland County (10.03.2015)
Researchers at Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre for MS Research have in february 2015 published an article in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
One of the babies in the Indian study receives its Vitamin A dose.
Can Vitamin A supplements help improve child survival? (04.03.2015)
About 6.9 million children younger than 5 years die every year worldwide; 43% of these deaths occur within the first 4 weeks of life; the neonatal period. India is one of the countries that is worst off - a quarter of all neonatal deaths in the world occur in India alone.
Kesheni Senkoro
In memory of Kesheni Senkoro (03.03.2015)
We are very sad to inform that Kesheni Senkoro, a PhD student in the research group on Global Health Priorities, recently passed away during his data collection in Tanzania.