Aims: We present self-reported data on physical and mental health at age 17 years from 82% of Norwegians born in 2001. Methods: In Norway, the Armed Forces require that each resident who reaches the age of 17 years completes a self-administered declaration of health that is used for military selection. The declaration collects information on height and weight, various clinically diagnosed diseases, ...

Det 32. Strategimøte i regi av Referansegruppen for eksterne kvalitetsvurderinger i bakteriologi, mykologi og parasittologi omhandlet øyeinfeksjoner og ble avholdt 31.10.2018 på Gjestehuset Lovisenberg i Oslo. På møtet deltok 40 personer fra 20 av landets medisinskmikrobiologiske laboratorier.<p> <p>Ansvarlig programkomité, som også har ferdigstilt denne avsluttende rapporten, var Hanne Brekke, ...

Muskelknuter i livmoren består av en type muskelceller og bindevev som vokser på veggen i livmoren. Rundt åtte av ti kvinner har muskelknuter, og omtrent en tredjedel av disse får plagsomme symptomer.<p> <p>Vi fant én randomisert kontrollert studie og en metodevurdering om effekt av kombinasjonsbehandling med gonadotropinfrigjørende hormon-reseptorantagonist og to Cochrane-oversikter om ...

The process of spermatogenesis features signifcant germ cell loss through apoptosis. Routine histology of the testes of wellstudied animal models hardly discloses any trace of their phagocytic clearance by the supporting Sertoli cells. This review highlights lessons learnt from the cystic, diametric testes of some seasonally migrating elasmobranchs (e.g., spiny dogfsh and blue sharks) that ofer ...

Change in theoretical framework over the last decades and recent research in pediatric physiotherapy, has created a debate surrounding therapeutic touch. What is the role of or is there a need for handling and hands-on facilitated guidance (facilitation)? Does it limit and/or interfere with children’s learning and development? It is frequently argued that therapeutic touch represents a passive ...

Aim: Verify the presence of inorganic nanoparticle entities in brain tissue samples from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)/sudden intrauterine unexplained death syndrome (SIUDS) cases. The presence of inorganic debris could be a cofactor that compromises proper brain tissue functionality. Materials & methods: A novel autopsy approach that consists of neuropathological analysis procedures ...

Objective To describe the pharmacists’ workflow, including tasks and time spent, to better understand their work capacity.<p> <p>Design Cross-sectional, observational, time and motion study. <p>Setting Community pharmacies in Western Australia and New South Wales, Australia. <p>Participants Currently registered and practising pharmacists were approached using snowball sampling and selected ...

Many severe inflammation conditions are complement-dependent with the complement component C5a-C5aR1 axis as an important driver. At the RNA level, the blood transcriptome undergoes programmed expression of coding and long non-coding RNAs to combat invading microorganisms. Understanding the expression of long non-coding RNAs containing Alu elements in inflammation is important for reconstructing ...

Objectives To explore medical students’ reflective essays about encounters with residents during preclinical nursing home placements.<p> <p>Design Dialogical narrative analysis aiming at how students characterise residents and construct identities in relation to them. <p>Setting Medical students’ professional identity construction through storytelling has been demonstrated in contexts including ...

The overall aim of this thesis is to provide knowledge on potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in hospitalized older patients and to investigate how clinical pharmacist services in an interdisciplinary setting can contribute to medication optimization and improve patient outcomes. First, we used national health registers to investigate how admissions to Norwegian geriatric hospital wards ...