Anna Häger Glenngård and Sixten Borg. (Photo: Louise Larsson) The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the health care system. “The Sw

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2025-08-23

Hans Nordegaard, Sylvaine Laulom, Anne Ruth Mackor Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, Cour de Cassation, France, Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, University of Groningen, and Assistant Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Sylvaine LaulomSylvaine Laulom (born 1967) is Advocate General in the Social Chamber of Cour

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-law-lund-university - 2025-08-23

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments. For that reason, experimental models are used, such as rodent studies, but one p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2025-08-23

Madelene Å Andersson, Sven Kjellström, Jitka Petrlova, Artur Schmidtchen, Ann-Charlotte Strömdahl, Manoj Puthia. (Photo: Olle Dahlbäck) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new hydrogel based on the body’s natural peptide defense. It has been shown to prevent and treat infections in wounds. The formulation kills multi-resistant bacteria, something that is increasing in importa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/next-generation-wound-gel-treats-and-prevents-infections - 2025-08-23

Different views and values within an organisation can complicate collaborations with other organisations. However, leaders who are prepared for this may be more successful in navigating their way through the storm unscathed. This is discussed in a newly published article by researcher Anna Brattström in the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. Hope and despair. These feelings characterised t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/distrust-and-hope-characterise-innovation-collaborations - 2025-08-23

Immunofluorescence analysis of a melanoma tumor showing that B cells in B cell clusters express CXCR5, a marker for tertiary lymphoid structures. (Source: Göran Jönsson) Cancer patients responded better to immunotherapy and had a better prognosis if their melanoma tumours contained specific clusters of B cells, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The study is published in Nat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/b-cells-linked-effective-cancer-immunotherapy - 2025-08-23

Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This year’s recipient of the Jan S

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2025-08-23

Photo: Unsplash An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that the rapid increase in land use in the world's tropical areas is affecting the global carbon cycle more than was previously known. By studying data from a new satellite imaging system, the researchers also found that the biomass in tropical forests is decreasing. Vegetation fills a very important funct

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2025-08-23

Wenjing Yang The RISE Awards (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is a competition for students, aiming to showcase student talent in sustainability and innovation, and is organised by U21 (Universitas 21). All participating projects aim to contribute to attaining at least one of the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Students from 16 member universities competed for the RISE Awards in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-wins-international-round-u21-rise-awards-0 - 2025-08-23

The researchers have discovered that a substance in beetroot peels attract mosquitoes and can be used to trap them. Photo: Marcus Stensmyr Researchers from Sweden and the USA have discovered a substance in beetroot peel that is highly effective in combatting mosquitoes. The substance, geosmin, is extremely expensive and difficult to get hold of. The new discovery changes all that. Marcus Stensmyr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/beetroots-combat-mosquitoes - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mostphotos Within the framework of an international study, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital have started treating patients with hemophilia with gene therapy, something that began in January this year. The hope is that the new treatment will significantly simplify everyday life for those with severe hemophilia. Hemophilia is a genetic disease where the body does not produce one

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hemophilia-being-treated-gene-therapy - 2025-08-23

Emily O'Connor. (Photo: Aron Hejdström) Researchers have for the first time found a connection between the immune systems of different bird species, and the various climatic conditions in which they live. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe that as the climate changes, some birds may be exposed to diseases that they are not equipped to handle. The results of the study indicate tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/immune-systems-not-prepared-climate-change - 2025-08-23

Using water wisely will be increasingly important in the future, particularly within agricultural production. The agricultural water management research project WATERAGRI, which is coordinated by the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded SEK 74 million from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme with the aim to improve agricultural water management and nutrient recovery fr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/agricultural-water-research-project-receives-large-eu-grant - 2025-08-23

Karin Lindkvist in the laboratory at MAXIV (Photo: Agata Garpenlind) In their quest to find new and better methods to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment, Karin Lindkvist and her research group at Lund University in Sweden are looking into the world of molecules, using the X-rays at the MAX IV laboratory. The researchers believe that limiting the cells' access to sugar will make cancer

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-believe-sugar-and-obesity-can-make-cancer-cells-more-difficult-kill - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mostphotos The Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research has been awarded to Niels Grarup of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. His research has shown that there is a genetic explanation for the increase in type 2 diabetes in Greenland. The prize, worth SEK 100 000, is donated by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/award-research-increased-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mostphotos Psychology researchers from Lund University in Sweden, McGill University in Canada, and Royal Holloway in the UK, have found that a magic trick can lead Democrats and Republicans alike to believe that they are more open-minded towards opposing presidential candidates than they thought they were. The American voters who took part in the experiment were willing to endorse more open

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/both-republicans-and-democrats-become-less-polarized-after-simple-magic-trick - 2025-08-23

The adoption of sustainable and renewable energy sources to permanently move beyond the dependence from fossil fuels constitutes one of the great challenges of our time. One that is made more urgent by the effects of climate change we witness on a daily basis. Electrification, such as we see in the development of electric vehicles, seems a promising strategy, but it cannot be the solution for all

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-synthesis-gas-tomorrows-sustainable-fuels - 2025-08-23

Martin Magnusson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) A new epidemiological study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden shows that there is a connection between high levels of the gastrointestinal hormone GIP in the blood, and an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. It is well known that the intestinal hormones GIP and GLP-1 are important for insulin production in the pancreas. They fo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gut-hormone-can-increase-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mostphotos The more sugar we eat, the less vitamins and minerals we consume, new findings from Lund University in Sweden show. However, the researchers behind the study do not believe that their results alone are enough to make changes to current dietary recommendations. High sugar intake has been associated with numerous diseases and conditions such as poor dental health, obesity, diabetes

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-sugar-less-vitamins-we-eat-study-shows - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mostphotos Today's energy system is not equipped to deal with the extreme weather of the future, according to an international research group that tested 13 potential climate change scenarios on 30 cities in four different climate zones in Sweden. A growing share of renewable energy makes the system even more vulnerable, according to the projections published in Nature Energy. The climate i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/extreme-weather-could-increase-power-outages - 2025-08-23