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During Summer of 2025, the fourth edition of the Methodology and Field Studies course brought together 19 PhD students in Ghana. The participants in the Methodology and Field Studies course were competetively selected from eight universities across Ghana. The aim of the four-day course was to strengthen research methodology skills, encourage interdisciplinary dialogue, and provide tools for improv
Join us at lunch, every other Thursday! The Development Lunch Seminar Program for the fall semester of 2025 is now official. 18 September (Online)“Women Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprises and Women Empowerment”Abigail Zaato (SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana)2 October (Online)“Women and Peacebuilding at Community Level in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Understandin
https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/fall-2025-program-development-lunch-seminars - 2025-12-15
With 2025, this original era of the Development Research School is coming to and end, but the programme committee is hopeful about the future of the school. The Development Research School - an international collaboration between Lund University, Uppsala University, Gothenburg University and the University of Ghana - was established in January 2022 . The focus of the partnership has been sustainab
https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/future-development-research-school - 2025-12-15
Obesity represents a tremendous global health problem. Studies over the past decade have suggested that food addiction (FA), that is, physical cravings for certain foods – high in fat/sugar – and addiction-like overeating of these types of food, is a likely contributor to the obesity epidemic. New publication in Acta Neuropsychiatrica
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/food-addiction-denmark-fadk-project-combined-survey-and-register-based-study - 2025-12-15
Genetic factors are important in determining breast density, and heritable factors account for 60% of the variation. Certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with density and risk of breast cancer but the association with prognosis is not clear. New publication in Acta Radiologica
ncreasing life expectancy for people with an intellectual disability (ID) is resulting in more persons with cancer and a greater need for end-of-life (EoL) care. There is a need for knowledge of health care utilisation over the last year of life to plan for resources that support a high quality of care for cancer patients with ID. Therefore, the aims of the study were to compare (1) health care ut
People with intellectual disability (ID) face considerable barriers to accessing psychiatric health care, thus there is a risk for health disparity. The aims of the present study were 1) to compare specialist psychiatric health care utilization among older people with ID to that with their age peers in the general population, taking into account demographic factors and co-morbidities associated wi
Preterm birth (gestational age <37 weeks) has previously been associated with cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric disorders into adulthood, but has seldom been examined in relation to sleep disorders. We conducted the first population-based study of preterm birth in relation to sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) from childhood into mid-adulthood. New publication in International Journal of Epidemio
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/preterm-birth-and-risk-sleep-disordered-breathing-childhood-mid-adulthood - 2025-12-15
Har Du deltagit i mammografiscreeningen eller undersökts med brösttomosyntes i Malmö mellan 2004 och 2018 eller deltagit i mammografiscreening i Lund, Helsingborg eller Kristianstad mellan 2013 och 2018? Då kan dina uppgifter finnas i en ny studie vid Lunds universitet! Läs mer här.
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/modernisering-av-brostcancerscreening - 2025-12-15
Pain is a common problem for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). In Sweden, 95% of children and adolescents with CP are followed in a national follow-up programme (CPUP), which includes data on pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of pain based on age, sex, gross motor function and source of report (self or proxy). Pain intensity, pain site, and how much pain disturb
The fragility index (FI) is a metric to evaluate the robustness of statistically significant results. It describes the number of patients who would need to change from a non-event to an event to change a result from significant to non-significant. This systematic survey aimed to evaluate the feasibility of applying the FI to findings related to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction in th
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/strength-numbers-fragility-index-studies-scandinavian-knee-ligament-registries - 2025-12-15
The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) registry is hosted by the National Institute of Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) at Bart’s Heart Centre and collects clinical characteristics, indications, procedural details, and outcomes of all patients undergoing PCI in the UK. The data are used for audit and research to monitor and improve P
Distal radius fracture often compromises working ability, but clinical implications are less studied in men due to its lower incidence. This study therefore describes sick leave in men with distal radius fracture, specifically exploring the impact of patient- and fracture-related factors. New publication in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/disability-and-pain-are-best-predictors-sick-leave-after-distal-radius-fracture-men - 2025-12-15
Kursens övergripande syfte är att deltagarna skall fördjupa sin kunskap om hälsoeffekter av luftföroreningar i omgivningsmiljön, så att de på grundval av vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet kan handlägga miljömedicinska frågeställningar som rör luftföroreningar. Kursen kommer att ge en kunskapsöversikt om de luftföroreningar i omgivningsluft som anses vara mest relevanta för människors hälsa; de vik
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/miljomedicinsk-kurs-om-luftfororeningar-i-allmanmiljo-och-ohalsa - 2025-12-15
In the Swedish population-based follow-up program and national quality registry for individuals with cerebral palsy (CPUP), physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) treatments are regularly recorded along with functional status. By Swedish law, all citizens irrespective of personal characteristics or socioeconomic status, have the right to receive healthcare and medical treatments as appli
School bullying is a widespread phenomenon across the world, which involves bystanders who take on various roles. Motivation to defend victims is important to investigate because it helps us devise better, evidence-based, anti-bullying interventions. New publication in Child & youth Care Forum
The introduction of sacubitril/valsartan (an angiotensin receptor–neprilysin inhibitor) is likely to change the approach to the management of patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). The Assessment of Real Life Care–Describing European Heart Failure Management (ARIADNE) registry will evaluate patient characteristics, practice patterns, outcomes, and healthcare re
https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/management-heart-failure-reduced-ejection-fraction-europe-design-ariadne-registry - 2025-12-15
Continuously high rates of overdose deaths in Sweden led to the decision by the Skåne County to initiate the first regional take-home naloxone program in Sweden. The project aims to study the effect of overdose prevention education and naloxone distribution on overdose mortality in Skåne County. Secondary outcome measures include non-fatal overdoses and overdose-related harm in the general populat
Fast-track referral is an increasingly used method for diagnostic evaluation of patients suspected of having cancer. This approach is challenging and not used as often for patients with only nonspecific symptoms. In order to expedite the diagnostics for these patients, we established Sweden’s first Diagnostic Center (DC) focusing on outcomes related to diagnoses and diagnostic time intervals. New
Routinely collected data are a powerful research resource and offer the opportunity to further our understanding of epilepsy mortality and Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). The advantages of using routinely collected data include that it often covers whole populations, is already collected, and can be easily linked to other data sources. A significant disadvantage is the difficulty in o
