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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from Lund University, together with the Roche pharmaceutical company, have used a method to develop a new blood marker capable of detecting whether or not a person has Alzheimer’s disease. If the method is approved for clinical use, the researchers hope eventually to see it used as a diagnostic tool in pri

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-detecting-alzheimers-disease - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the link between osteoarthritis and mortality in an epidemiological study. It was shown that the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was higher for people with osteoarthritis than for the rest of the population. Read full length article on the Lund Unive

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/osteoarthritis-linked-higher-risk-dying-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. More than half of our genome consists of transposons, DNA sequences that are reminiscent of ancient, extinct viruses. Transposons are normally silenced by a process known as DNA methylation, but their activation can lead to serious diseases. Very little is known about transposons but researchers in an international co

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-sheds-light-darker-parts-our-genetic-heritage - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An extensive study has confirmed that the risk of developing coeliac disease is connected to the amount of gluten children consume. The new study is observational and therefore does not prove causation; however, it is the most comprehensive of its kind to date. The results are presented in the prestigious journal JAMA

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/association-between-coeliac-disease-risk-and-gluten-intake-confirmed - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A total of 100,000 newborn babies have now been screened for type 1 diabetes within the framework of GPPAD (The Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes), a major European initiative to find children with a high hereditary risk of developing the disease. Number 100,000 was Arthur from Dresden in Germa

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/100000-babies-screened-high-risk-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The first evidence was recently presented demonstrating how the immune system can be controlled by directly reprogramming connective tissue cells into immune cells. The discovery provides the opportunity to develop an entirely new strategy for targeted immunotherapy against cancer. One characteristic of cancer is its

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-project-develop-innovative-strategy-cancer-therapy - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new technology has brought researchers one step closer to a future cure for Congenital Muscular Dystrophy type1A, a devastating muscle disease that affects children. The new findings are based on research by Kinga Gawlik at Lund University, Department of Experimental Medical Science, and were recently published in N

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/reversing-muscle-dystrophy - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year’s Fernström Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University is awarded to Professor Johan Malmström. He wins the award and prize of SEK 100 000 for his world-leading work on proteomics, a field of large scale protein analysis that charts the function and structure of pro

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lunds-fernstrom-prize-research-interaction-proteins - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 4 November there is an opportunity for researchers at Lund University to participate free of charge in the annual meeting of the Medicon Valley Alliance. Petter Hartman, CEO, talks about the benefits for both society and individual researchers when life science networks are strengthened and cooperation flourishes a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/power-networking-within-life-science - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are the latest topics within health and care services. With its capacity to process large volumes of data, self-learning software can detect complex correlations between patients, find disease markers at an early stage and make more correct diagnoses. However, this new

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-study-how-self-learning-software-can-provide-improvements-healthcare - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Triple negative breast cancer is an aggressive type of cancer representing approximately nine percent of all breast cancer cases in Sweden. It is more common among younger women, has a high heredity factor and causes more frequent relapses earlier in the course of the disease than other breast cancers. Researchers hav

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/patient-specific-diagnostics-breast-cancers-are-difficult-cure - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For people with mental health problems, it can take time and be difficult to achieve a successful working life. A new thesis from Lund University describes what is required to facilitate working life for persons with mental health problems: Hope and belief in the person's ability to work. To focus on the person and in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/belief-peoples-ability-work - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. He was selling carpets on Mårtenstorget in Lund, applying for all kinds of jobs and answered an advert from the Department of Clinical Immunology, Lund University, for a lab technician job. He didn´t get the job. Instead he was asked if he wanted to start a Ph.D. A few weeks ago immunology professor William Agace was

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/carpets-market-academy-professor - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 800 people in Sweden are currently on the waiting list to receive donated organs, but there are too few organs. Nearly one person dies each week in Sweden while on the waiting list. How can this lack of donor organs in Sweden be solved? Researchers Darcy Wagner, Department of Experimental Medical Science, and Sandra L

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/translational-research-developing-new-methods-prevent-organ-rejection-and-growing-new-organs-lab - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish health care delivers good results, yet we hear every day about the health crisis and its consequences. Now, representatives of academia and health care have grown tired of the crises and started the think tank Health Care and Science with the goal of contributing to solutions and spreading good ideas. – We wan

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/think-tank-seeks-solutions-health-crisis - 2026-05-19

Den 6 december undertecknade Lunds universitet ett lokalt avtal med Seko, om principer för genomförande av lönerevision. Förhandlingsordningen gäller från och med den 1 oktober 2020 till och med den 30 september 2022. Det innebär att nya löner kommer att betalas ut retroaktivt från 1 oktober 2020. Universitetet och Seko är fortsatt överens om att nya löner fastställs genom kollektiva förhandlingar

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/avtal-om-lonerevision-undertecknat-med-seko - 2026-05-19

Nu finns universitetets lokala förhandlingsordningar med OFR/S, Saco-S och Seko att ladda ner i högerspalten på HR-webbens sida om lönerevision. Gå till sidan om lönerevision

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/lokala-forhandlingsordningar-lonerevisionen - 2026-05-19

På grund av en ökad smittspridning och viss ökad vårdbelastning har regeringen infört en ny åtgärdsplan i tre steg för införande av fler smittskyddsåtgärder mot spridningen av covid-19.  Det första steget, som gäller från den 8 december, innebär inga större förändringar för lärosäten – universitet och högskolor ska fortsätta bedriva undervisning och examination på plats. Universitetets rektorsbesl

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/regeringens-nya-atgardsplan-innebar-inga-storre-forandringar-larosaten - 2026-05-19

Universitetet och de fackliga organisationerna har kommit överens om att förlänga den temporära möjligheten till utökade flextider för T/A-personal som reser med kollektivtrafik i rusningstid. Tanken är att göra det lättare att undvika den smittorisk som resor till och från jobbet med kollektivtrafik i rusningstrafiken kan innebära.   Överenskommelsen gäller till och med den 30 juni 2022 och inneb

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/mojligheten-till-utokade-flextider-forlangs-att-undvika-smittorisk-i-kollektivtrafiken - 2026-05-19

Arbetsgivarverket har ändrat sitt ställningstagande och myndigheter får nu kräva vaccinationsbevis av allmänheten, men inte av sina anställda.  Universitetet kommer nu att ta fram rutiner för hur vaccinationsbevis kan användas. Fortfarande berör detta enbart allmänna sammankomster inomhus med fler än 100 deltagare. Läs mer på Medarbetarwebben

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/nytt-om-vaccinationsbevis-vid-allmanna-sammankomster - 2026-05-19