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The core research groups at CIH have both received the grade “Excellent” by an international expert panel which has evaluated the medicine and health research in Norway.
The 6th Conference on Global Health and Vaccination Research, “Contributions to Global Health Research, Capacity Building and Governance”, will take place in Oslo 12 -13 September 2011.
From Monday 31 October to Thursday 3 November the Bergen Resource Centre for International Development will host a wide range of lectures, discussions and even a book launch.
Small cell lung cancer is an aggressive cancer that is associated with early metastases, smoking, good initial response of chemotherapy, high risk of relapse and high mortality. The paper is the first complete case-story of a small cell lung cancer in a pediatric patient. The article was published in Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
For many patients is walking on a treadmill with body weight support (BWSTT) a new and challenging task.The researchers investigated if patients post-stroke stabilise their walking pattern during familiarisation and found that 5-min was sufficient to achieve relatively stable walking during BWSTT.