Patient involvement has been a manta within the healthcare system for a long time. Now new research from the University of Copenhagen proves that patient involvement actually does make a difference. But we still do not know exactly how to achieve successful involvement of elderly patients’ in their often complex course of treatment in a Danish context.
A new study shows that people with migraine or frequent tension headaches have a reduced work ability in particularly three areas. The researchers hope that the new knowledge may help workplaces become better at accommodating those suffering from headaches.
It is well known that divorces can lead to poor health and early death among men, but less so among women. Now, a new study shows that men are also more prone to develop inflammation than their female peers after going through breakups or living alone for extended periods.
Damage to the spinal cord can be extremely disabling. Now research from the University of Copenhagen shows that the cells of the spinal cord do not behave as expected – a discovery that may prove important in connection with future treatment.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that fluid does not necessarily enter the brain the way one thought. According to one of the researchers behind the study, the result may lead to fewer major brain operations.
A team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen has discovered a new piece in the puzzle of the brain’s ‘feel good’ substance, dopamine. According to one of the researchers behind the new study, the discovery may facilitate the development of drugs for i.e. cocaine addiction and ADHD and is most likely to change the general notion of how dopamine is removed from the brain.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University presents a new study demonstrating that a small molecule in brain cells affects the level of hypocretin, which is responsible for making us feel awake during the day and tired at night. People with a genetic variation of this molecule have a higher risk of suffering from daytime sleepiness.
Specialized groups of neurons within the brainstem control movement. Now researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that activation of such neurons is sufficient to restore full movement function in mice with symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The study helps clinicians to focus Deep Brain Stimulation to the right therapeutic spot and hopefully could improve treatment of motor symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease.
Each year, 13 million pregnant women get malaria, and as drug resistance increases, the disease is hard to control. A new study provides the WHO with new knowledge on prevention and treatment.
A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin lymphoma. This is good news for the patients, but also for the global threat of antibiotics resistance.
Pneumonia is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world. But – as shown in a new study from the University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet and Hillerød Hospital – our understanding of the disease may have been mistaken. The new knowledge may provide better treatments in the future.
This shift in metabolism has strong implications for tolerance to antibiotics
The lipids, or fat molecules, in the skin are significantly different in patients with a certain type of Parkinson’s disease from healthy individuals, a new multicenter study involving the University of Copenhagen finds. The researchers hope the findings could improve early detection of Parkinson’s disease in younger people.
In order to live, all mammals depend on the function of a large molecule in our nerve cells made up of four proteins. But what these proteins look like has been mostly unknown, making it difficult to treat diseases related to the molecule. Now, an international team of researchers, including a group from the University of Copenhagen, have mapped the missing pieces.
Together with collaborators around Europe Kristian Almstrup at ICMM has performed single-nuclei RNA sequencing of all major groups of mammals, including humans as well as their closest relatives, the great apes
On the 23rd Aug., the Hickson group published a paper that defines the role of RAD51 (and its partner, BRCA2)
Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Lykke Sylow, has published a new meta-study showing that cancer patients are at increased risk of metabolic dysfunction.
There is currently no cure for the heart condition ARVC, which usually affects young individuals. A new study from the University of Copenhagen presents a surprising new treatment strategy.
Cancer patients are at a greater risk for developing diabetes, according to a new study by the Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, and the University of Copenhagen. The study also concludes that cancer patients who develop diabetes die sooner than survivors without diabetes.
Men with obesity can double their sperm count if they lose weight and maintain the weight loss. This is the conclusion in a new study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Hvidovre Hospital.