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Editorial in Science Magazine: "Halving premature death" by Ole Frithjof Norheim and co-authors (12.09.2014)
In an editorial in this week's Science Magazine, Richard Peto, Alan D. Lopez and Ole Frithjof Norheim write that "for many countries, halving their 2010 under-50 mortality rate by 2030 would be a feasible target; worldwide, it would avoid 10 million of the 20 million deaths projected for 2030".
Bergens medisinske forskningsstiftelse og bildet av Oleksii Nikolaienko
Grant from Bergen Research Foundation to Oleksii Nikolaienko (08.09.2014)
3.3 million over 3 years awarded to Dr. Oleksii Nikolaienko for research on Translational Neuropsychiatry
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Health achievements in child health are improving in Ethiopia (04.09.2014)
In the end of August the Global Health Priorities researchers Eirin Kr眉ger Skaftun and Ole Frithjof Norheim, together with Merima Ali from Chr. Michelsen Institute, published a new article in Plos One: 鈥淯nderstanding inequality in Child Health in Ethiopia: Health Achievements are Improving in the Period 2000-2011鈥�. The study aims to give a better understanding of existing inequalities in child... Read more
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New publication on identifying the worse off across diseases (03.09.2014)
A new article published in Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation (CERA) by Global Health Priorities researchers Frode Lindemark, Ole Frithjof Norheim and Kjell Arne Johansson illustrates how information from published health economic evaluations can be used to measure lifetime QALYs, absolute and proportional shortfall of QALYs for eight different example diseases. Resource allocation... Read more
Meera Chhagan
A beloved professor has passed away (01.09.2014)
Professor Meera Chhagan died Friday 29th August 2014 after an accident.
MIC-seminar: "Super Resolution Microscopy - Principles and Applications" (27.08.2014)
MIC is happy to announce the seminar "Super Resolution Microscopy - Principles and Applications", 9th of September 2014, 13:00-14:00 (Aud4, BBB).
Professor Bj酶rn Tore Gjertsen in the lab.
Storstilt st酶tte fra Kreftforeningen til ny strategi for biomark酶rer (27.08.2014)
Kreftforeningen har tildelt 7 millioner kroner over 4 氓r til CCBIO-prosjekt ledet av professor Bj酶rn Tore Gjertsen.
Professor Bj酶rn Tore Gjertsen in the lab.
Novel blood cancer biomarker strategy receives Cancer Society funding (27.08.2014)
The Norwegian Cancer Society supports CCBIO project with NOK 7 million.
Organ Donation
Ethical challenges to care in donor situations (06.08.2014)
The need for organ donations can create ethical challenges for healthcare professionals.
Family Planning
Differences in hormonal contraception use between 鈥渘ative鈥� and 鈥渋mmigrant鈥� women in Norway (05.08.2014)
Understanding these differences will enable Norwegian public health professions to better provide adequate family planning guidance.
Legemidler og utstyr til behandling og oppf酶lging av diabetes.
Are we overtreating nursing home patients with diabetes? (03.07.2014)
PhD candidate Lillan Mo Andreassen have investigated drug therapy and glycemic control in nursing home patients with diabetes, and found very low blood glucose levels in several of them.
Global Governance for Health
Turning national public health challenges into global ones (30.06.2014)
Three students from the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS) have been the driving force behind one of the courses at the Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) 2014.
Respiratory Illness Conference
Tracing the origins of respiratory illness 鈥� back generations (23.06.2014)
An international group of respiratory health experts met at the Centre of International Health to share recent results and plan future research directions, 10-13 June.
Adnan Budnjo's thesis "Synthesis of serine protease inhibitors".
Peptidomimetics - drugs for the future (18.06.2014)
By developing molecules which are able to regulate serine proteases, the phd work of Adnan Budnjo is another step towards developing new medicines against diseases as cancer, diabetes, and COPD. Thursday 19th of June 2014 he defends his thesis 鈥淪ynthesis of serine protease inhibitors鈥�.
Agnete Svendsen Tenfjord Engelsen
Agnete Engelsen receives award for best PhD dissertation 2013 (17.06.2014)
We congratulate CCBIO associate Agnete Engelsen with the faculty award for best PhD dissertation!
Camilla Krakstad
Camilla Krakstad awarded with the Falch Junior Prize for young researchers (17.06.2014)
We congratulate CCBIO's associate Camilla Krakstad with the award!
Universal Health Coverage
Working Towards Fairness and Equality (16.06.2014)
The goal of universal health coverage is high on many global and national agendas 鈥� how can it be attained?
The first CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposium 11.06.14. Collage.
Great interest in the CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposia (12.06.2014)
The Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) hosted June 11th its first Junior Scientist Symposium, and the second took place August 28th. There has been a great interest.

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