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Increased risk of heart attack after early removal of appendix or tonsils
Surgery
Few young people protect themselves against STIs during casual sex
New method for producing neurons
Scientists trick the brain into Barbie-doll size
Imagine shrinking to the size of a doll in your sleep. When you wake up, will you perceive yourself as tiny or the world as being populated by giants? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet may have found the answer.
Psychology
Unique Alzheimer study of four siblings
Help hospitals to save lives
Improved survival and treatment for chronic blood disorders
Leukemia
Architects´ firm selected for Karolinska Institutet´s future laboratory complex
Press breakfast on The Human Brain Project
Synthetic mesh can improve outcome of prolapse surgery
Gynaecology, Surgery
Coffee consumption modifies risk of breast cancer
Continuing medical education for physicians on heart disease saves lives
Surgery reduces risk of death from prostate cancer also in low-risk group
New mitochondrial control mechanism discovered
Sense of justice built into the brain
Midlife overweight may increase risk of dementia
Neurodegenerative diseases
Conference calls attention to AIDS epidemic
Karolinska Institutet is holding an international conference to call attention to the successes and setbacks experienced by research, healthcare and society at large.
Sickness certification challenges the physician
Public Health
Comprehensive DNA analysis improves experiments with yeast
KI rejects anti-Semitic mailing
Karolinska Development joins stock market
New honorary doctors at Karolinska Institutet 2011
Atherosclerotic plaques form during a late and limited time period in life
Biochemistry
Dopamine controls formation of new brain cells
Neurodegenerative diseases, Stem cells
Unmet care needs in adult life following childhood brain tumour
Pedestrians injured by the windshield frame in car crashes
Public Health, Statistics
A conference this week about the clinical significance of epigenetics
FIFA establishes Medical Centre of Excellence in Sweden
Sports Medicine
National investigation on school meal quality
Karolinska Development floated on stock market
Mild psychological distress linked to long term disability
Acupuncture is equally effective with simulated needles
Knowledge initiative benefits the smaller EU states
US venture capitalist donates USD 2 million to KI
Inflammation behind heart valve disease
Inflammation (en)
New international network for virus research
Lecture on the immune system and new vaccines
Coffee linked to reduced risk of stroke
Newly discovered role for enzyme in neurodegenerative diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases, Pharmacology
Sunlight can influence the breakdown of medicines in the body
Pharmacology, Public Health
Joint leadership: the key to successful hospital mergers
38 million Euro into research on RA
Parents important for keeping adolescents off alcohol
Public Health
Research into chromosome replication reveals details of heredity dynamics
Scientists create illusion of having three arms
New cell therapy a promising atherosclerosis treatment
Pharmacology, Stroke (en)
Internet-CBT can help people with hypochondriasis
Psychology, Psychotherapy
Free radicals maybe good for you
Cell and Molecular Biology, Nutrition (en)
Heparin a key role player in allergy and inflammatory reactions
Active wound healing can accelerate tumour formation