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Smokers have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, but a higher risk of dying from the disease, according to a large population study led by Lund University in Sweden. The researchers followed more than 350 000 people over several decades, and the results are now published in European Urology. It is well known that smokers have an increased risk of developing various cancers, but there have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-worsens-prognosis-men-prostate-cancer - 2026-04-27

When everyday life is not recognisable, when conversation is silenced, when memories disappear. Alzheimer’s disease is contracted by 60 000 people in Sweden annually and accounts for 60 per cent of all types of dementia disease. There is no cure, but research has come a long way in diagnosing the disease at an early stage. “Over the past ten years there has been a revolution concerning our possibi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pursuit-early-signs-alzheimers-disease - 2026-04-27

Major roadworks around Lund will soon affect commuting options for those who work in Lund but live outside the city. The road projects affect the E22 at the Lund Södra interchange and road 108 between Staffanstorp and Lund. At certain times there will be planned total road closures during the period 2025 to 2026. To provide commuting staff members with support and information about what is happeni

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/it-soon-time-total-closures-e22-and-road-108 - 2026-04-27

CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has written a review of a book about the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The reviewed book is called Varje dag dör jag långsamt. En reportagebok inifrån Nagorno-Karabach (English translation: Every day I die slowly. Reporting from Inside Nagorno-Karabakh) and was written by Rasmus Canbäck (2023, SILC Förlag). Svante's review was published in Svenska Dagbladet on

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-review-voices-nagorno-karabakh - 2026-04-27

Stora vägbyggen runt Lund kommer snart påverka pendlingsmöjligheterna. Om du arbetar i Lund men bor utanför stan kan det vara bra att planera hur du ska ta dig till jobbet i förväg. Vägprojekten berör E22 vid trafikplats Lund Södra och väg 108 mellan Staffanstorp och Lund. Under vissa perioder blir det planerade totalavstängningarna under år 2025–2026.E22 och väg 108 mellan Staffanstorp–LundEn til

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/snart-ar-det-dags-totalavstangningar-pa-e22-och-vag-108 - 2026-04-28

With Varvsstaden out of the picture, the University of Chicago’s establishment and investment in one of the US megacity’s most vulnerable areas, South Side, serve as the blueprint for the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts’ future co-location. “Imagine creating a campus area in Heleneholm where the Malmö Academy of Music is already located. It would be something completely new in Scandinavia, and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/faculty-fine-and-performing-arts-mulls-co-location-heleneholm - 2026-04-28

Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trillion tonnes of carbon from the air, storing it in the t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2026-04-27

At the Lise Meitner seminar 2025, two new Lise Meitner professors were introduced, while the main lecture looked back on 100 years of female excellence in the field of Automatic Control. Professor Carolyn Beck Carolyn Beck is a professor at the University of Illinois and an expert in control theory and dynamic systems over networks, with applications ranging from epidemics and financial risks to e

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/new-and-old-role-models - 2026-04-27

Excuse the mess! Right now we are revising the Swedish version of our website education.lu.se. Our English website is next in line. Photo: Shivendu Shukla from Unsplash.com. Our website education.lu.se was created during the pandemic and has grown organically since then. A lot of the material has become outdated, and it's time for a thorough revision. We are currently in the process of cleaning up

https://www.education.lu.se/en/article/we-are-rebuilding-read-about-revision-educationluse - 2026-04-27

A new international commission will pave the way for a global boost in maternal and newborn health. The project is led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, whose motivation stems from a formative experience witnessing a woman bleed to death unnecessarily during childbirth. “The time has come to put maternal and newborn health back at the heart of the global health agenda,” says Mehreen Za

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-global-initiative-maternal-and-newborn-health-be-led - 2026-04-27

A new international commission will pave the way for a global boost in maternal and newborn health. The project is led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, whose motivation stems from a formative experience witnessing a woman bleed to death unnecessarily during childbirth. “The time has come to put maternal and newborn health back at the heart of the global health agenda,” says Mehreen Za

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-global-initiative-maternal-and-newborn-health-be-led-sweden - 2026-04-27

A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that people with Alzheimer's disease can now be identified before they experience any symptoms. It is now also possible to predict who will deteriorate within the next few years. The study is published in Nature Medicine, and is very timely in light of the recent development of new drugs for Alzheimer's disease. It has long been known that t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-can-be-diagnosed-symptoms-emerge - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in no

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2026-04-27

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/moving-towards-unified-web-experience-students - 2026-04-27

Due to a vacancy in the Nominating Committee a by-election is now being held. You have until 26 November to cast your vote. The task of the faculty's Nominating Committee is to prepare nominations and to establish suggestions of candidates for the positions of dean and deputy dean as well as for the Faculty Board and the University Electoral College. As Magnus Jirström is leaving his position in t

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/vote-election-nominating-committee - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NANOWIRE WEEK will take place at the end of May 2017 in Lund, Sweden. Nanowire Week is the merger of two long-standing workshops, NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop, and is the foremost event worldwide for all areas of nanowire research. The aim of Nanowire Week is to promote lively discussion on all areas of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-week-2017 - 2026-04-27

Catarina Kinnvall and Tereza Capelos have co-edited the special issue “The Psychology of Extremist Identification” (volume 26 Issue 1, 2021) in the journal European Psychologist. The special issue aims to widen the analysis of extremism to account for the unresolved puzzles that continue to plague practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike:  Why some individuals engage in extremist politics

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-how-extremism-can-be-prevented - 2026-04-27

Anders Uhlin has together with Håkan Johansson and Malin Arvidson published the article “Capital and Closure in the EU Field. Advancement in the European Economic and Social Committee” in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article explores what it takes to advance to the top of an EU institution (the European Economic and Social Committee). The article combines Bourdieu’s theories of field and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/uhlin-career-advancement-eu-institution - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The latest issue of "Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights" has been published, with contributions from Nicholas Loubere and Stefan Brehm. On 12 May 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. Felt as far as Beijing, the tremors caused horrific damage: 69,2

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-issue-made-china-published-0 - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on so

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2026-04-27