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“How are you, what seems to be the problem?” asks Ahmed, who is playing Doctor Ali. “Well, I have had a stomach ache for a few days”, says 26 year-old Sadeq who is playing the patient, 50 year-old Bengt. “Can you describe your symptoms?” asks Ahmed/Doctor Ali, and Sadeq/Bengt explains about pain, nausea and vomiting. At Locus Medicus in Malmö. Sadeq al-Ghaffari from Irak with a red jacket, and Ahm

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/recent-arrivals-practise-their-swedish-medics-language-cafe - 2025-10-03

Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social anthropologist Tova Höjdestrand. She sees patterns that might explain other right-w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2025-10-03

A new interdisciplinary research environment for human rights will soon be launched in Lund. “Interdisciplinarity and innovative thinking are required if our work on human rights is to remain relevant to society”, writes Morten Kjaerum, director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Morten Kjaerum, director and adjunct professor Raoul Wallenberg Institute. The head of the human rights office at the C

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chronicle-human-rights-are-become-interdisciplinary - 2025-10-03

For two years, the LU350 Office has been working hard to coordinate all the University initiatives into a jubilee programme. The jubilee starts on Monday 19 December – exactly 350 years after the document to establish Lund University was signed. “After all the planning, we have finally reached the implementation phase”, says Louise Pierce, one of the three members of the LU350 Office. “After all t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/now-it-starts-lund-universitys-350th-anniversary - 2025-10-03

Tremendous amounts of money, an ambitious and carefully considered appointment process and major start-up packages for new employees – these are the three things that characterise WCMM, the Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine in Lund. Professor Freddy Ståhlberg is the director of WCMM. WCMM in Lund has sister organisations at the universities in Umeå, Gothenburg and Linköping. Together with t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medical-centre-recruiting-top-junior-researchers - 2025-10-03

He advocated family planning and contraceptives already four decades before Elise Ottesen-Jensen. He was in a common-law marriage, was interested in social problems, and supported the women’s suffrage movement – and today his theories control the design of monetary policy in the West. Knut Wicksell, pioneering Professor of Economics in Lund 1901–1916, was a man ahead of his time. Knut Wicksell wit

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/economist-whom-world-was-not-prepared - 2025-10-03

One of the two recent Lund University jubilee stamps depicts the young diabetes researchers Anna Edlund and Jones Ofori. They are pleased to be featured on the stamps – but it was a complete surprise to them both. “Obviously we knew that our picture had been taken. A couple of years ago, there was a photographer here at CRC (Clinical Research Centre) who photographed the premises, labs and people.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unknowing-researchers-became-stamp - 2025-10-03

Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a purely geographical point of view, is a measurable stretch in space: 350 years of U

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2025-10-03

Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures on the standard of living, human rights, war, terrorism, climate change, and more.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2025-10-03

Research communication officer Evelina Lindén at the School of Economics and Management encouraged journalists to use their moral compass and be careful to give credit where it is due when interviewing researchers – in reference to a case in which SVT had assumed credit for a documentary. Here she points out what researchers themselves can do to avoid the culture clash between media and academia.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-deal-journalists - 2025-10-03

Their own sense of well-being after a yoga session led them onto a new path in their research. Over 200 LU employees signed up as volunteers for their first study. Now they are finalising an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychological and physiological health effects of yoga. Rachel Maddux. Rachel Maddux, Una Tellhed and Daiva Daukantaité are colleagues at the Department of Psychology in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-employees-use-yoga-relieve-stress - 2025-10-03

USV is the umbrella term for the University’s specialised centres which are gradually moving into the faculties. But the process is not painless – the specialised centres are keen to safeguard their identities and their low overhead costs. The faculties and departments, on the other hand, do not want to take on financially insecure ventures. Leif Stenberg is the director of the Centre for Middle E

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/usv-shrinking-centres-are-moving-faculties - 2025-10-03

Pressmeddelande från Uppsala universitet: I år är det 100 år sedan insulinet upptäcktes. Diabetes som tidigare inneburit en säker död blev plötsligt behandlingsbart. Sedan dess har insulinläkemedlen och även metoderna för att mäta blodsocker förbättrats. I framtiden hoppas forskarna kunna bota sjukdomen med hjälp av stamceller. Om 10–15 år kan det vara fullt möjligt att transplantation av insulinp

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesbehandling-fran-insulin-till-transplantationer - 2025-10-03

Risken för diabeteskomplikationer varierar kraftigt mellan olika individer. Några lever relativt friska med sjukdomen i flera decennier, andra drabbas betydligt snabbare och av allvarliga hälsoproblem. Enligt forskare är det de typ 2 diabetiker som fick sin diagnos tidigt, som har högt fasteblodsocker och stort midjemått. I en artikel i tidskriften Journal of Diabetes and its Complications har for

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/storsta-riskerna-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-10-03

Personer med typ 2-diabetes har sämre muskelfunktion än friska personer. Nu har forskare sett att vid typ 2-diabetes har genen VPS39 stor betydelse för muskelfunktionen och muskelstamcellernas förmåga att bygga nya muskelceller. Det framkommer i en ny internationell studie ledd från Lunds universitet. Studien är publicerad i Nature Communications. – Hos personer med typ 2-diabetes är genen VPS39 b

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/muskelgen-kopplas-till-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-10-03

”Diabetes är en underlig sjukdom”. Så sa en grekisk läkare för nästan 2 000 år sedan. Dagens diabetesforskare skulle kanske inte använda ordet underlig men fortfarande finns många angelägna frågor som väntar på ett svar. En av dem är varför den egna insulinproduktionen ganska snabbt helt slås ut hos de flesta nyinsjuknade i typ 1 diabetes men inte hos alla. De behåller en egen liten insulinprodukt

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forsok-att-radda-kvarvarande-insulinproduktion - 2025-10-03

Pressmeddelande Dagens Diabetes. Professor Anders Tengholm vid Uppsala universitet har fått ett forskningsanslag på 2 000 000 kronor av Diabetes Wellness Sverige för sitt projekt ”Rap and Ras signalling in insulin secretion”. Vårt syfte på stiftelsen Diabetes Wellness Sverige är att öka allmänhetens kunskaper om diabetes och att ge olika typer av stöd till diabetiker i väntan på ett fungerande bot

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forskningsanslag-insulinfrisattning - 2025-10-03

Kan ett minskat intag av gluten under småbarnsåren påverka ett insjuknande i celiaki, glutenintolerans? Detta ska forskare vid Lunds universitet undersöka i den nya studien GRAIN (Gluten Reduction after Infancy and risk of Celiac Disease). – Vi har i tidigare studier sett att mängden gluten man äter spelar roll för risken att bli sjuk. I GRAIN vill vi se om vi kan förhindra ett insjuknande om man

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-kan-glutenreducerad-kost-forsta-aren-forhindra-celiaki - 2025-10-03

Många menar att nu är det dags att på allvar screena riskpersoner för typ 1 diabetes. Inte bara i vetenskapliga studier utan även i vården. Anledningen är de ökade kunskaperna om kända riskgener och allt mer detaljerade metoder för att analysera utvecklingen av autoantikroppar vilka med ganska stor säkerhet visar vilka som kommer att drabbas. Ju fler av dem som i tidigt skede blir kända, desto fle

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/dags-att-masscreena-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-10-03

En forskningsstudie med drygt tvåhundra deltagare visar att det nya, ännu inte godkända insulinet Ícidec som bara behöver tas en gång i veckan kan vara ett bra alternativ vid typ 2 diabetes jämfört med injektioner varje dag. Icodec har testats på 205 typ 2 diabetiker i US, Kroatien, Tyskland, Ungern, Polen, Slovakien och Spanien. Iocdec jämfördes med insulin Glargine (till exempel Lantus) en gång

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/insulin-bara-en-gang-i-veckan - 2025-10-03