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Accountability key to implement agreements fighting antibiotic resistance (25.08.2015)
Post.doc. Trygve Ottersen has published an article as part of a special symposium in Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics on the global treath of antibiotic resistance.
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Conscientious objection by health care professionals - positive or problematic? (25.08.2015)
Health care professionals' refusals to provide certain medical goods and services that they consider morally objectionable is a well-known and often hotly debated phenomenon. In this review paper for Philosophy Compass, post doc and group member Gry Wester provides an introduction and overview of some of the key issues.
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Smoking can activate a wide range of cancer types (24.08.2015)
CCBIO’s Professor Helga Salvesen has been co-author of a study recently published in the renowned journal JAMA Oncology. The results of the study may indicate that cigarette smoke helps to activate an entire universal "cancer program" which are also present in cancer that are not usually associated with smoking, including breast and gynecological cancers.
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Thoughts on how to save humanity (21.08.2015)
Post.doc. and research group member Trygve Ottersen is contributing alongside prominant politicians and leaders like Margaret Chan, Bill Clinton and Jonas Gahr Støre in this new book from Oxford university Press.
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Open seminar on “Assessing Child Nutritional Status” (21.08.2015)
Should the 2006 recommended WHO Child Growth Standards be the global reference?
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When is a cough more than just a cough? (21.08.2015)
A timely diagnosis of TB can save lives – not only for the person with TB, but also by limiting further spreading of the disease.
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Five new susceptibility loci for cutaneous malignant melanoma discovered (07.08.2015)
Researchers have found five new genetic regions that make people more susceptible to malignant melanomas. CCBIO’s Lars Akslen is one of the Norwegian researchers who have been contributing to this international study.
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International Conference, “The tumor stroma- friend or foe?” (03.08.2015)
The Marie Curie ITN Network CAFFEIN, caffein.ku.dk, arranges its first international conference in Bergen October 22nd-23rd 2015.