12.12.2022: Essay - Lobotomy was initially considered a breakthrough in the treatment of mental illness, and approximately 3,000 lobotomies were carried out in Norway in the period 1940–60.

Access to safe water and food is linked to global, regional and local climate changes. In some areas swift changes have entailed serious health-related consequences. An alarming example is found in ...

29.04.2021: Short case report - A young woman had a headache for a few days, before developing a fatal cerebral haemorrhage ten days after vaccination with the ChstraOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine from ...

Synovial fluid is examined as a matter of routine in evaluations of swollen joints. Microscopic examination is used to assess cellularity and the cell types present and to determine whether there are ...

In 1686, Louis XIV of France (1638 – 1715) – The Sun King – developed a perianal abscess that after a series of failed treatment attempts, including with the use of a red-hot iron, developed into an ...

09.12.2014: A doctor's life - Ideas that appear very strange to us have shaped views of epilepsy throughout our history.

25.11.2014: Language column - The term glycation should be used when referring to the non-enzymatic reaction, while glycosylation should be used for an enzyme-catalysed reaction.

Skewed distributed data Figure 2 shows a right-skewed distribution. Such distributions may originate from measurements which cannot be negative, for example plasma concentration. In a right-skewed ...

Lineær blandet effekt-modell Det finnes ulike statistiske metoder for analyse av longitudinelle data. Det er naturlig å ta utgangspunkt i en regresjonsmodell. Vi skal her fokusere på en lineær blandet ...

30.03.2017: Clinical review - .Prolonged grief disorder, which is proposed as a new diagnosis in ICD-11, and depression share some similarities but also several key differences. In order to provide ...

30.03.2020: Essay - Sigmund Freud's writings bear the imprint of contemporary currents in various sciences, such as medicine and psychology.

Women are less susceptible to infectious diseases than men, but are more often prone to autoimmune diseases. This higher prevalence is partly attributable to the X chromosome, which has many genes ...