Science news articles about 'swedish medical'

  • Cigarettes, not Swedish snuff linked to increased risk of MS

    ... 1, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "While ... author Anna Hedström, MD, of the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm." ...
  • Novel mechanisms controlling insulin release and fat deposition discovered

    [PRESS RELEASE, 13 May 200] Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in two recent studies shown that a receptor called ALK7 plays important roles in the regulation of ...
  • Female sex offenders often have mental problems

    ... of the factors specific to female sex offenders has been scant. A group of researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now looked into incidences of mental illness and ...
  • New cheaper method for mapping disease genes

    [PRESS RELEASE, 26 May 2008] Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have developed a new DNA-sequencing method that is much cheaper than those currently in use in ...
  • Exercise cuts cancer death in men

    ... less likely to die from cancer than those who don’t exercise, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. In the study, the researchers looked at the effect of ...
  • Golf prolongs life

    Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The death rate for golfers is 40 per cent lower than for other people ...
  • Society's attitudes have little impact on choice of sexual partner

    ... , 16 June 2008] A unique new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institute (KI) suggests ... the Queen Mary University of London. More than 7,600 Swedish twins (men and women) aged 20-47 ...
  • Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia

    ... with primates in a variety of contexts," explained Gregory Engel, who is also a physician at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. "It seems that some of these contexts are going to be very important, ...
  • Study opens way for later treatment of acute stroke

    ... by a clot or other obstruction to the blood supply – can be lengthened. This according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, the results of which can bring about more ...
  • New properties of skin stem cells

    [PRESS RELEASE , 13 October 2008] Recent research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet reveals completely new properties of the skin's stem cells – discoveries ...
  • Severe gestational hypertension may protect against testicular cancer

    ... colleagues observed 293 cases of germ-cell testicular cancer in the Swedish Cancer Register and 861 controls in the Swedish Medical Birth Register. They extracted data on maternal and ...
  • Prognosis after attempted suicide impaired by psychiatric disorder

    ... is particularly high for people with serious psychiatric disorder, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. One in ten suicide attempters actually commit ...
  • Bad cholesterol inhibits the breakdown of peripheral fat

    ... (LDL) inhibits the breakdown of fat in cells of peripheral deposits, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The discovery reveals a novel function of LDL as a ...
  • Stress explained

    ... says Sarah Speck, a preventive cardiologist, and medical director of the Center for CardioVascular Wellness at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. When the brain senses a threat -- even if it's a non- ...
  • Fast food a potential risk factor for Alzheimer's

    ... in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. The study results, published in a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI), give some indications of how this difficult to ...

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