By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 20 December 2024 Nicholas Leigh is a senior lecturer and researcher in regenerative immunology. In Sweden, only a few research groups in the field study salamanders. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Nicholas Leigh came from the United States to Sweden and Lund University four years ago. In his research, he focuses on salamanders

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/seeking-shutdown-button-cancer - 2025-06-05

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 2 January 2025 In a recent study, eighty-eight per cent of the respondents said they were in favour of body checking. Sixty-four per cent said they did not think there would be more injuries. Photo: Istock/vencavolrab In 2022, Sweden became the first country in the world to allow body checking in women's ice hockey

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/swedish-female-ice-hockey-players-favour-body-checking - 2025-06-05

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 3 January 2025 Concerning concussion, both female and male hockey players who reported more concussions were more likely to report elevations in various psychiatric symptoms. Photo: iStock/Gilaxia Elite ice hockey players with a history of concussion report heightened mental health symptoms, according to a new stud

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/professional-ice-hockey-depressive-symptoms-and-burnout-linked-more-concussions - 2025-06-05

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 8 January 2025 Efraim Westholm and Lena Eliasson have measured levels of the protein IGFBP7 in beta cells from people with type 2 diabetes. Photo: Petra Olsson 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 lev

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/protein-affects-ability-secrete-insulin-type-2-diabetes - 2025-06-05

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 31 January 2025 Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm at Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg receives the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research for research on the adipose tissue. Photograph: Johan Wingborg This year's recipient of the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research maps out mechanis

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ingrid-wernstedt-asterholm-receives-leif-c-groop-award-research-adipose-tissue - 2025-06-05

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 5 February 2025 Pre-cancerous lesions, known as in situ cancers, were also more likely to be detected with AI – 51 per cent more such cases were found (68 people compared with 45). Photo: iStock New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2025-06-05

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 10 February 2025 In a large international study the researchers found that analysis by the AI led to 14 times fewer missed diagnoses of severe arrhythmias. Photo: Bild: iStock/alexaldo. In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-06-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 11 February 2025 Atopic eczema is one of the most common chronic skin diseases in Sweden and affects just over 25 per cent of all children and 10 per cent of all adults. More than half of sufferers contract the disease before the age of two. Photo: iStock Cold weather, dry air, an overactive immune system or our modern

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/atopic-eczema-widespread-disease - 2025-06-05

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 12 February 2025 Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain inj

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-06-05

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 14 February 2025 Elin Hård af Segerstad, dietitian specialised in pediatrics and researcher at Lund University. She works clinically at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. Photo: Tove Gilvad The results of an observational study from Lund University in Sweden are clear: up to the age of two, a more fibre-rich diet

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-track-higher-amounts-dietary-fibre-age-two-can-reduce-later-risk-coeliac-disease - 2025-06-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 18 February 2025 Assessing patients via chat functions is a means for healthcare centres to streamline care, but it requires an entirely new approach to medical evaluation. Photo: Ingemar Hultquist Assessing patients via chat functions is a means for healthcare centres to streamline care, but it requires an entirely ne

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/nurses-need-new-skills-digital-triage - 2025-06-05

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 11 March 2025 Filipe Pereira, professor at Lund University, together with Cristiana Pires and Fábio Rosa founded Asgard Therapeutics AB. Photo: Kennet Ruona Asgard Therapeutics, in partnership with Lund University and Herlev Hospital, has been awarded €2.5 million for an EIC Transition project from the European Innovation Coun

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/innovative-cancer-cell-therapy-project-lands-eu25-million-eic-funding - 2025-06-05

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 13 March 2025 The study is particularly relevant given the Swedish Work Environment Authority's recent proposal to lower the limit for exposure to hexavalent chromium from 5 to 1 microgram per cubic metre of air. Photo: iStock Unchanged since 1996, Sweden's hexavalent chromium exposure limit is higher than in several o

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cellular-changes-occur-even-below-hexavalent-chromium-limit - 2025-06-05

By anna [dot] hellgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Hellgren) - published 3 April 2025 Anna Falk, director of LU-ATMP, and Gisela Helenius, head of the ATMP center at Skåne University Hospital, want to develop the ATMP environment in Lund together with innovation players. Photo: Tove Smeds On April 9, Lund University's Pre-GMP Facility and Skåne University Hospital's ATMP Center - a joint rese

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/now-lunds-atmp-infrastructures-are-officially-open - 2025-06-05

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 21 February 2024 The Conversation is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists that in a decade has become the world’s leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. 25% of all articles from Lund University published in the Conversation in 2023 focused on the Middle East, generatin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/46000-reads-lund-university-articles-middle-east-conversation-2023 - 2025-06-05

Published 27 February 2024 CMES interns 2024: Lilljan Daoud, Jaara Chikfa, Boran Zhang, Marine Lambotte, Rupert von der Kammer, Irene Vanni, Fadi Azzo, Asma Ben Salam and Renee Nienhuis. Not pictured: Szebasztián Simic and Firat Berk Sivaslioğlu. Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren CMES is delighted to welcome 11 part-time project interns for the 2024 spring semester. The interns are all masters students

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-welcomes-new-interns - 2025-06-05

Published 28 February 2024 The workshop focused on the intersections between conflict, environment and policy to explore the politico-environmental dimensions of the war in Syria. There were also discussions on the broader relevance and application of project results beyond the context of Syria. On 20-21 February, CMES hosted the workshop “Just and Equitable Ecological Models in Contested and Conf

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-conflict-and-environment-kurdistan - 2025-06-05

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 28 February 2024 Lina Eklund is one of the researchers in the international team working to analyse satellite images of the destruction of Gaza. Photo: Johan Joelsson CMES researcher and physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be si

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2025-06-05

Published 28 February 2024 CMES PhD researcher Behshid Khodaei and researcher Hossein Hashemi have co-authored an article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The article "Can river flow prevent land subsidence in urban areas?" was co-authored by Alireza Sharifi (University of Oulu), Behshid Khodaei (CMES), Amirhossein Ahrari (University of Oulu), Hossein Hashemi (CMES) and A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/groundwater-depletion-and-land-subsidence-iran - 2025-06-05

Published 29 February 2024 CMES researcher Hebatalla Taha has written an article in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. The article, "Everyday nuclear histories and futures in the Middle East, 1945–1948", was published in December 2023.AbstractThis article examines nuclear imaginaries in the Arabic-speaking Middle East. It situates people from the Arab world into nuclear thought, lookin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nuclear-histories-middle-east - 2025-06-05