Artificial intelligence (AI) for radiology has the potential to handle an ever-increasing volume of imaging examinations. However, the implementation of AI for clinical practice has not lived up to expectations. We suggest that a key problem with AI projects in radiology is that high expectations associated with new and unproven AI technology tend to scale the projects in ways that challenge their ...

Introduction: In pediatric physical therapy, there is an ongoing debate about the use of therapeutic handling and its potential effects on motor learning. In this study, we build on enactive theoretical perspectives to explore the role of therapeutic handling in connection to children's sensory-motor play, engagement, and performance during a single physical therapy session.<p> <p>Material and ...

As planetary health education enters medical and health professional training, transversal implementation across curricula is critical in developing its full potential and enabling future health professionals to meet the social, environmental, and health challenges of current and future generations in an integrated manner. To advance the transversal implementation of planetary health education, our ...

Tidligere i år (2022) berørte journalist i Klassekampen Yohan Shanmugaratnam mange med sin lesning av Karpes siste plate Omar Sheriff. I sin tekst skriver han at «Karpe setter ord på migrantenes melankoli», og han skriver om sin foreldregenerasjon, «som bare har jobbet og holdt kjeft, uten at noen har invitert dem til Dagsnytt 18 [norsk nyhets- og debattprogram] for å snakke om ytringsrommet eller ...

Background: Nurses encounter many ethical dilemmas in their practice. The ability to make good ethical decisions is a necessary competence in healthcare professions. International studies call for development and research on various methods to teach healthcare professionals ethics. This article describes an approach for learning how to be aware of and discover ethical dilemmas. By applying ...

Purpose Study purposes were to evaluate for inter-individual variability in the trajectories of three objective measures of physical function (PF) in older patients receiving chemotherapy (n=112) and determine which characteristics were associated with worse PF.<p> <p>Methods Balance, gait speed, and chair-stand test were evaluated at initiation and 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months following chemotherapy. ...

Climate change, biodiversity loss and large-scale environmental degradation are widely recognized as the biggest health threats of the 21st century, with the African continent already amongst the most severely affected and vulnerable to their further progression. The healthcare system’s contribution to climate change and environmental degradation requires healthcare professionals to address environmental ...

The background of this study is the world wide increase in type 1- diabetes in children. The international diabetes federation (IDF) estimates that approximately 500.000 children under the age of 15 have type 1- diabetes (1).

Background. Immune dysregulation is a major factor in the development of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The homeostatic chemokines CCL19 and CCL21 have been implicated as mediators of tissue inflammation, but data on their regulation in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is limited. We thus investigated the levels of these chemokines in COVID-19 ...

Graves’ er en autoimmun sykdom og den vanligste årsaken til høyt stoffskifte hos yngre personer. Ved Graves’ sykdom danner immunforsvaret antistoffer som stimulerer skjoldbruskkjertelen til økt produksjon av hormonet tyroksin. Symptombildet ved Graves’ sykdom kan inkludere uforklarlig vektnedgang, hjertebank, nervøsitet, skjelvinger, irritabilitet, tretthet, søvnvansker, varmeintoleranse, hevelse ...