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Research that makes us laugh and think
Link between cadmium in food and breast cancer
Breast cancer, Cancer and Oncology, Environmental Medicine
New approaches to cancer
Exercise changes the DNA
Physiology
Cervical screening programme saves lives in more ways than one
Gynaecology, Public Health
New honorary doctors at Karolinska Institutet 2012
A welcome initiative on registry research
New discoveries on depression
Psychiatry
Industrialist Fredrik Lundberg donates 13 million SEK to heart research
New knowledge on the pharmacology of dopamine stabilisers
A study from Karolinska Institutet shows that a new drug for Huntington's disease – pridopidine or dopamine stabiliser ACR16 – might operate via previously unknown mechanisms of action.
Neurosciences, Pharmacology
Higher risk of autism among certain immigrant groups
Psychiatry
Karolinska Institutet coordinates international research on neurodegenerative diseases
Mapping of protein inhibitors facilitates development of tailor-made anticancer agents
Cancer and Oncology, Cell and Molecular Biology
KI Professor now international educator
Therapy helps children and teenagers in pain
Complexities in caregiving at the end of life
Nursing, Palliative Care
Ice hockey champ Mats Sundin donates over 2 million SEK to medical research
International
Adoptees at higher suicide risk if both biological and adoptive parents have psychiatric problems
Mental Ill-Health, Suicide Research
Donation opens new opportunities for more effective diabetes treatment
Low levels of lipid antibodies increase complications following heart attack
Immunology
AstraZeneca's cutbacks in Södertälje a hard blow to medical research in Sweden
KI scientists in flagship projects on the mysteries of the brain and graphene
Neurosciences
KI and AstraZeneca strengthen their collaboration in neuroscience
Infant injuries on the decline
Public Health
No increase in brain tumours in the Nordic countries
Expectant mothers on SSRIs risk newborns with high blood pressure in the lungs
Pharmacology
Processed meat may increase pancreatic cancer risk
Cancer and Oncology
Computer simulations explain the limitations of working memory
Lower risk of breast cancer occurrence but higher mortality amongst low-educated and immigrant women
Low-educated and immigrant women run a lower risk of breast cancer occurrence than highly educated women and women born in Sweden. However, the risk of dying from breast cancer is higher for those low-educated and immigrant women that do get the diagnose – a development that has occurred in Sweden during the last ten years. This according to a new study from the Karolinska Institutet based on the records of some 5 million women between 1961 and 2007.
Breast cancer
Impaired quality of life: a warning signal after oesophageal cancer surgery
Surgery
Surgery affects concentration and memory
Link between brain injury and violent crime
KI appeals Data Inspection Board's decision on LifeGene
No higher risk of acute leukaemia in close relatives
Genetics, Leukemia
Few allergies in unstressed babies
Blood protein EPO involved in origin and spread of cancer
Antioxidant-rich diet may reduce stroke risk in women
Public Health
Risks of cardiovascular diseases increase with severity of prematurity
Karolinska Institutet and Mayo Clinic strengthen their cooperation
An unexpected player in a cancer defense system
A better way to count molecules discovered
From test tube to treatment at diabetes conference
Substance interfering with the cells handling of protein waste could become new cancer drug
President of Karolinska Institutet made honorary doctor at Dublin
Aspirin reduces the incidence of cancer in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer
Snomed CT: A richer and more reliable source of clinical data for primary care
Statistics
New professors at Karolinska Institutet 2011
KI ranked among world's top 20 medical universities
Friends of KI fund grant for studies at Karolinska Institutet
SIDS on the rise again