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By performing a few simple physical exercises daily, and receiving information about their disease regularly, 500 osteoarthritis patients were able to on average halve their pain in 6 months - and improve their physical function. The participants in the study from Lund University in Sweden used a newly developed mobile app to help them keep track. “We expected patients to see an improvement, but t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/app-helps-reduce-osteoarthritis-pain - 2025-12-15

An international research team from Sweden and Hungary have discovered an entirely new sense in dogs: using their cold, wet nose tips, dogs can sense the heat from other animals or a human. “It has taken a rather long time to discover this, given that dog and man have lived side by side for 15,000 years, and we have remained unaware of this ability”, says Ronald Kröger, professor at Lund Universit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dogs-can-detect-heat-noses-study-finds - 2025-12-15

Lund University is following the Government and Public Health Authority’s new recommendations regarding measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The University has therefore decided that education and examinations should be conducted using online alternatives (distance education) from 18 March. University facilities will remain open. On 17 March, the Government recommended that universiti

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/university-makes-transition-distance-education - 2025-12-15

The University’s main priority in these difficult times is the safety and well-being of our students, our staff and the community around us. As a centre of education and research in Sweden for more than 350 years, the University has stood through many major events in world history and by working together in solidarity, we will endure through these challenging times as well. At the end of February

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-and-coronavirus-covid-19 - 2025-12-15

Medical and nursing students will now be able to join the fight against the coronavirus. The Faculty of Medicine and Region Skåne have reached an agreement that means students can be employed at hospitals and health care facilities in the region. This will also apply to clinically active staff at the faculty. Initially, the deal applies to medical and nursing students in the later stages of their

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-and-staff-support-health-care-system - 2025-12-15

To understand what happens in the brain when Alzheimer's disease develops, researchers need to be able to study the molecular structures in the neurons affected by Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have tested a new imaging method for this purpose. The research is published in the journal Advanced Science. In Alzheimer's disease, so-called beta-amyloid plaques are forme

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-imaging-method-sheds-light-alzheimers-disease - 2025-12-15

In the current extraordinary situation, voluntary initiatives and ideas have taken off at Lund University, at several different faculties. Everyone is helping where they can. In times of significant pressures on society, many people want to contribute to ensure the functioning of healthcare and education.  When it became apparent that the paediatric emergency department in Lund, among others, had

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/maths-tutoring-visors-and-disinfection-volunteer-initiatives-continue-lund-university - 2025-12-15

Skåne University Hospital’s 3D Printing Centre normally produces surgical equipment and anatomical models used in health care. However, they are now producing protective visors instead, as there is a shortage at hospitals in the region. The centre, run by Region Skåne and linked to Lund University, hopes to do even more, and serve as a hub for 3D-printing in healthcare given the current situation.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/3d-printing-centre-helping-fight-against-coronavirus - 2025-12-15

We find ourselves in trying times. Much of what we know and take for granted is being turned on its head. Around the world, we see the spread of the coronavirus affecting country after country. As an international student, you are far away from your loved ones at a time when your studies, mobility, travel and socialising are being severely tested. Many are also observing that Sweden’s government a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/message-vice-chancellor-lund-university-students - 2025-12-15

‘With age comes wisdom’ is an old proverb well suited to Björn Jonson, professor emeritus in clinical physiology who is about to turn 80. He is working day and night to develop a ventilator specifically adapted to the treatment of those suffering the most from COVID 19. Björn Jonson has worked as a researcher in pulmonary physiology since the beginning of the 1960s. Quite early on in his research,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/rapid-development-ventilator-covid-19 - 2025-12-15

The frustration with not being able to contribute to the difficult situation surrounding the covid-19 pandemic led researchers at LUPOP to launch a matchmaking initiative. Their idea is to help researchers with clinical background, now needed in healthcare, by supporting their research and application work. As COVID-19 spreads throughout the world, public interest in epidemiology has increased sig

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/covid-19-mitigating-impact-research-through-matchmaking - 2025-12-15

This article was written by Paul W Franks, Professor in Genetic Epidemiology at Lund University, and Peter Nilsson, Professor of Epidemiology at Lund University for The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/uk). It was published on March 27th 2020. A growing number of Swedish doctors and scientists are raising alarm over the Swedish government’s approach to COVID-19. Unlike its Nordic neighbou

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sweden-under-fire-relaxed-coronavirus-approach-heres-science-behind-it - 2025-12-15

Two Lund researchers have received the prestigious European Research Council’s (ERC) Advanced Grant of approximately SEK 25 million each: Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and Olle Melander, professor of Internal Medicine and consultant at Skåne University Hospital. The grants are for research on atomic physics and quantum mechanics, and diabetes and cardiovascular disease respectively.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-erc-advanced-grants-awarded-lund-university-researchers - 2025-12-15

Many of the patients who become seriously ill with COVID-19 suffer from respiratory failure. Therefore, Lund University will train nurses within Region Skåne in advanced care for respiratory failure starting Wednesday. For healthcare, a big challenge is finding staff with the right skill set to treat COVID-19 patients. Many patients suffer from respiratory failure, and have difficulty oxygenating

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-fast-tracks-courses-nurses - 2025-12-15

Better than expected, but not without its challenges, especially socially. That’s how a couple of our students and staff tell the story of how we went from campus education to distance learning methods in a matter of days. Wednesday 18 March. The campus is still open to students and staff, but from now on very few, if any, lectures and group assessments are to be held here. Not today, and not duri

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/students-and-teachers-share-their-stories-distance-learning-due-covid-19 - 2025-12-15

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in restoring mobility and sensation of touch in stroke-afflicted rats by reprogramming human skin cells to become nerve cells, which were then transplanted into the rats’ brains. The study has now been published in the research journal PNAS. “Six months after the transplantation, we could see how the new cells had repaired the damage that a s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-successfully-repair-stroke-damaged-rat-brains - 2025-12-15

In recent years, RNA molecules, with the ability to affect or turn off pathogenic genes, have become promising drug candidates in several areas. However, it has been a challenge to develop techniques to deliver the RNA molecules into the cells where they have an effect. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now developed a sensitive technique that makes it possible to study the delivery in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/rna-drugs-one-step-closer-be-being-used-cancer-treatment - 2025-12-15

Currently, all around the world, urgent research initiatives are underway in the fight against Covid-19 to find both better treatments as well as a vaccine that creates immunity. At Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, researchers have quickly launched two dedicated SARS-Cov2 labs, which are now conducting research on samples from coronavirus patients. The Division of Infection Medicine at the De

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sars-cov2-labs-operation-lund-university - 2025-12-15

The earthy smell in spring when the fields are ploughed and the garden soil in flower beds is dug over has a previously unknown purpose. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and other institutions have examined the soil smell and were able to show that it is linked to intricate interplay between millimetre-long insect-like organisms that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/story-behind-earthy-smell-spring - 2025-12-15

Patients who have been so ill they have needed intensive care often have a long recovery ahead of them – both physically and mentally. The problems that can develop include unpleasant memories of nightmares and hallucinations. Previous favourite foods can suddenly taste awful. Many intensive care patients recover well on their own; however, some patients need ongoing care to feel well. Lund resear

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/after-covid-19-important-intensive-care-patients-are-followed - 2025-12-15