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18 Feb 2025
Nurses Need New Skills for Digital Triage
Assessing patients via chat functions is a means for healthcare centres to streamline care, but it requires an entirely new approach to medical evaluation. A study from Lund Univer...
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14 Feb 2025
New research track: higher amounts of dietary fibre before the age of two can reduce the later risk of coeliac disease
The results of an observational study from Lund University in Sweden are clear: up to the age of two, a more fibre-rich diet seems to reduce the risk of coeliac disease. A particul...
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12 Feb 2025
Cracking the Alzheimer’s Code: How Brain Trauma Triggers Disease
A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta — a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disea...
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11 Feb 2025
Atopic eczema – a widespread disease
Cold weather, dry air, an overactive immune system or our modern lifestyle. The causes may vary, but an increasing number of people are suffering from atopic eczema. In particular,...
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10 Feb 2025
AI is better than humans at analysing long-term ECG recordings
In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial fibrillation, many days of ECGs may be req...
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5 Feb 2025
AI-supported breast cancer screening – new results suggest even higher accuracy
New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent m...
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31 Jan 2025
Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm receives the Leif C. Groop award for research on adipose tissue
This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanisms in the adipose tissue, which has increased the understanding of why some peop...
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8 Jan 2025
Protein that affects the ability to secrete insulin in type 2 diabetes
In type 2 diabetes, the body's ability to release insulin is impaired, which leads to high blood glucose levels. Research led from Lund University shows how the levels of a particu...
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3 Jan 2025
Professional ice hockey: Depressive symptoms and burnout linked to more concussions
Elite ice hockey players with a history of concussion report heightened mental health symptoms, according to a new study from Lund University.
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2 Jan 2025
Swedish female ice hockey players in favour of body checking
A first study shows that almost nine out of ten players in the Swedish women's hockey league are in favour of body checking.