What’s the lasting effect of surgical knee repair? For the first time, a researcher has looked at how different surgical methods affect knee function 5-10 years after treatment.
Asthma or EILO: Are misdiagnosed breathing difficulties making children and adolescents less active? EILO is a breathing problem that can be confused with asthma. Doctor believes many people don’t know they can get help.
A mathematician in the operating room Mathematician Mathias Barra looks at hospitals as if they are health factories. His goal is to find the safest, most efficient way to organize surgery and the use of shared resources.
Fake chiropractic treatments make for better research Conducting research on chiropractic care is hard because it is very difficult to fool patients into thinking they have been given a treatment. But a Norwegian PhD candidate believes he has solved this problem.
Frozen ovarian tissue restores women’s fertility Doctors removed ovarian tissue from women about to undergo chemotherapy – and when it was transplanted after chemo, patients were able to become pregnant.
Charting sores and bruises in multiple colours Detailed nuances in colour can reveal the age of bruises or detect when sores are not healing properly.
Salvaged donor lungs can save lives Donor lungs once thought unsuitable for transplant can be salvaged for use by a new method after special treatment in a purpose-built heart and lung machine unit.
Genetic test queues generated by Angelina Jolie Since Angelina Jolie made her double mastectomy public in 2013, Norwegian women have streamed to hospitals to test against hereditary breast cancer.
Pressuring radiation damaged bones to heal Pressure chambers help patients who have suffered damage from radiotherapy treatment against cancer. Bones grow better under pressure.
A physician's words can help or hurt Doctors can help people change their unhealthy lifestyles, but poor communication skills may cause patients to feel shame and guilt.
Fear cancels out placebo effect Placebos offer no analgesic effect for people who are afraid of pain, a Norwegian study shows.
Sore throats often require no antibiotics Physicians are too apt to prescribe antibiotics for throat infections. These are often viral, rather than bacterial, streptococci infections.
Fast or slow prostate cancer? Some types of prostate cancer progress so slowly that the patient never requires treatment. The challenge now is to find out which patients need treatment and which don't.
Oslo terrorism response: fine medical effort despite flaws Emergency medical teams made significant efforts when they treated the victims of last year's terrorist attacks in Oslo. But there were flaws.
Screening for breast cancer to what effect? Researchers are disagreeing on whether the Norwegian screening program on breast cancer has had the intended effect.
Height as an infliction Several hundred Norwegian girls were treated with oestrogen in their childhood to keep them from growing too tall. Nobody has studied what happened to them as adults.
Cutting back on coercion Psychiatric wards in larger cities in Norway are more apt to use coercive medical care than ones in smaller communities, but reductions are underway.
