News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Household cleaning can be as bad as smoking for lung function (16.02.2018)

Cleaners who have regularly used cleaning sprays over 20 years were found to have reduced lung function equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day over the same period, a UiB-study shows.

Nordic Proteomics Conference (15.02.2018)

The Proteomics Unit of the University of Bergen, PROBE, and the Norwegian Proteomics Society organize this edition of the Nordic Proteomics Conference NPC 2018

Midwifery in Rural Afghanistan (15.02.2018)

Two researchers from Bergen were involved in a project evaluating women´s perception, utilization and experience of a professional midwifery service in rural Afghanistan in the time around childbirth.

Collage of photos from the 10th Cancer Crosslink, different speakers on the stage.

Cancer Crosslinks for the 10th time (14.02.2018)

This year, Cancer Crosslink was organized for the 10th time, and top-notch international speakers attended the meeting entitled “Precision Treatment: Exploiting Recent Advances – Fast and Furious?”. CCBIO postdoc and gynecologist Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen chaired the meeting together with Christian Kersten, oncologist at Center for Cancer Treatment, Sørlandet Hospital, Kristiansand.

14th MIC Confocal Microscopy Course (05.02.2018)

Open for registration, deadline 23rd of February.

Brochure: CIH’s Global Health Master Degree (01.02.2018)

The Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen offers a Master Degree in Global Health.