12.12.2022: Essay - Lobotomy was initially considered a breakthrough in the treatment of mental illness, and approximately 3,000 lobotomies were carried out in Norway in the period 1940–60.

30.03.2020: Essay - Sigmund Freud's writings bear the imprint of contemporary currents in various sciences, such as medicine and psychology.

04.06.2020: Perspectives - The use of moist oral snuff (snus) has increased significantly, particularly among young adults who have not previously smoked.

09.12.2014: A doctor's life - Ideas that appear very strange to us have shaped views of epilepsy throughout our history.

Access to safe water and food is linked to global, regional and local climate changes. In some areas swift changes have entailed serious health-related consequences. An alarming example is found in ...

17.08.2020: Perspectives - The academic publishing industry earns high profits and shapes how we undertake medical research.

Skewed distributed data Figure 2 shows a right-skewed distribution. Such distributions may originate from measurements which cannot be negative, for example plasma concentration. In a right-skewed ...

25.11.2014: Language column - The term glycation should be used when referring to the non-enzymatic reaction, while glycosylation should be used for an enzyme-catalysed reaction.

29.04.2021: Short case report - A young woman had a headache for a few days, before developing a fatal cerebral haemorrhage ten days after vaccination with the ChstraOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine from ...

Women are less susceptible to infectious diseases than men, but are more often prone to autoimmune diseases. This higher prevalence is partly attributable to the X chromosome, which has many genes ...

21.11.2022: Klinisk oversikt - I sjeldne tilfeller begynner degenerativ demenssykdom med isolerte vansker med språket, uten andre kognitive symptomer.

Hvorfor prioriteres ikke ortogeriatri? Til tross for god kunnskap og klinisk betydningsfulle resultater for en pasientgruppe med alvorlig prognose har det vist seg vanskelig å få sykehusene til å ...