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Objectives: The purpose of this presentation is to present the development, activities and achievements of the NOPHO/NOBOS Working Group on Ethics (WGE) 2008-2013. Methods: A joint working group on ethics, consisting of pediatric oncology nurses and physicians, was constituted during the NOPHO/NOBOS Annual Meeting in 2008. The intention was to create a Nordic competence group addressing ethical qu

List of scholarships and grants Page 1 of 76 List of scholarships and grants – offered by foundations connected with Lund University Finance Endowment administration Emma Haverlind, administrator 2025-02-12 Postal address Box 117, 221 00 Visiting address Sandgatan 5 Telephone +46 222 71 44, +46 46 222 00 00 E-mail stipendier@eken.lu.se Website www.lunduniversity.lu.se, www.staff.lu.se Page 2 of 76

https://www.staff.lu.se/sites/staff.lu.se/files/2025-02/List%20of%20scholarships%20and%20grant%20250212.pdf - 2026-07-21

Background: The debate over legalizing medical assistance in dying (assisted dying) is ongoing, also in Nordic countries such as Sweden where assisted dying is illegal. A 2020 survey by the Swedish Medical Association highlighted varied perspectives, with 41% of physicians supporting and 34% opposing legalization. Professionals in palliative care were more negative toward it. Objective:

Software failures in medical devices can lead to catastrophic situations. Therefore is it crucial to handle software related risks when developing medical devices. This paper presents the experiences gained from an ongoing case study with a medical device development organisation. This part of the study focuses on the two first steps of the risk management process, i.e. risk identification and ris

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the total direct medical costs to society for patients with type 2 diabetes in Sweden and to investigate how different factors, for example diabetic late complications, affect costs. DESIGN: Cross-sectional data regarding health care utilization, clinical characteristics and quality of life, were collected at a single time-point. Data on resource use cover the 6-month perio

A recent case of a flawed medical AI system that was backed by public funding provides an opportunity to discuss the impact of government policies and regulation in AI.

Socio-economic gradients are known to exist in cancer but we want to focus on the university-educated population and specifically on physicians to find out whether their special educational background on cancer causation helps them to avoid cancers. The analysis was based on the latest update of the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, in which the educational level was obtained from the national censu

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/sites/intramed.lu.se.en/files/2023-04/Handlingsplan%20200128%20ENG%5B1%5D.pdf - 2026-07-21

https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/medicine/surgery-course-exchange-students - 2026-07-19