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Gaining access to Brief Admission by self-referral reduced the need for emergency care in adolescents with severe self-harm. The method has previously been introduced for adults, and a study led by researchers from Lund University has now explored whether the method could also be used for children and young people. The results are published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Most children and young people
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 - 2026-04-21
Blood transfusions are vital, but demand for blood far exceeds supply all over the world. In India and China, for example, relatives are usually called upon to give blood in the case of an accident or an operation. An international conference in Lund, Sweden, the first of its kind, will now discuss various possible alternative treatment methods with the potential to complement or even replace bloo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/shortage-blood-global-problem - 2026-04-21
In the past, it has been common practice to perform analyses of archaeological sites after excavations have been completed and covered again with soil. But with the revolutionary development of digital technologies, we can now identify archaeological information that was previously invisible to the naked eye. “As I dig, I am also destroying. Archaeologists must document it before. But with 3D docu
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/past-comes-alive-3d - 2026-04-21
The frustration with not being able to contribute to the difficult situation surrounding the covid-19 pandemic led researchers at LUPOP to launch a matchmaking initiative. Their idea is to help researchers with clinical background, now needed in healthcare, by supporting their research and application work. As COVID-19 spreads throughout the world, public interest in epidemiology has increased sig
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/covid-19-mitigating-impact-research-through-matchmaking - 2026-04-21
Each year approximately four thousand people in Sweden are diagnosed with lung cancer and nearly as many die each year from the disease. It is the fifth most common form of cancer in Sweden and the one which claims the most victims. At Lund University researchers are working on finding new methods to diagnose and treat the disease. Despite the fact that lung cancer is such a large-scale problem th
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lung-cancer-early-diagnosis-leads-better-targeted-treatment - 2026-04-21
Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban environments. Previous research has investigated the presence of heavy metals in hedgehogs from other urban areas in Europe and
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/surprising-number-environmental-pollutants-hedgehogs - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As part of a three-day state visit to Sweden, His Excellency Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, came to Lund University where he gave a lecture to a packed auditorium. The aim of the official visit was to further promote the long-standing and excellent relations between Sweden and Italy. The three-day official vis
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/italian-president-sergio-mattarella-visits-lund-university - 2026-04-21
A new blood test demonstrated remarkable promise in discriminating between persons with and without Alzheimer’s disease and in persons at known genetic risk may be able to detect the disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment, according to a large international study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and simultaneously presented at
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-shows-great-promise-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2026-04-21
The cells that produce insulin and glucagon are difficult to access, as they are located inside the fragile pancreas. Researchers looking to understand how they function and what underpins the development of diabetes are therefore often advised to conduct their experiments on animals. The Human Tissue Lab, on the other hand, provides researchers with access to cells from deceased human donors; thi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gold-diabetes-researchers - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year’s Eric K. Fernström foundation Grand Nordic Prize – one of the largest awards for medicine in Scandinavia – goes to neurology researcher Maiken Nedergaard, who works at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Rochester. She has discovered and investigated how the brain gets rid of harmful products
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/neurology-researcher-wins-prestigious-prize-discovery-brains-cleaning-system - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We know that individuals who smoke take major health risks. Now a new research study from Lund University in Sweden shows that common treatment for breast cancer works less well in patients who smoke, compared to non-smokers. “Smokers who were treated with aromatase inhibitors had a three times higher risk of recurren
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-can-hamper-common-treatment-breast-cancer-0 - 2026-04-21
You rush into the supermarket; your mother-in-law is coming for dinner. But which products end up in your shopping basket and why? Researchers have previously tracked eye movements to understand which products attract you in a shop. In order to get closer to the truth, they now want to use new computational models in which the brain’s cognitive processes also play a major role. As you stand in the
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-happens-your-brain-when-you-take-decision-new-research-shows-way - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The mummified remains of Peder Winstrup are one of the best-preserved human bodies from the 1600s. Preliminary investigations reveal a sensational find: the internal organs are still in place. WATCH: Mummified bishop undergoes medical investigations“We can now observe that Winstrup’s mummy is one of the best-preserved
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mummified-bishop-unique-time-capsule-17th-century - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When physical geographer Daniel Metcalfe explains what he does in the simplest possible way, he says he examines holes in leaves. However, the project is far more sophisticated than that, and could lead to a better way of caring for the forests of the world in the future. Daniel Metcalfe is an associate senior lecture
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/project-finds-ways-better-care-worlds-forests - 2026-04-21
For human beings to function socially, they need to be able to perceive, understand, and talk about others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires and intentions. There is no consensus among researchers as to when children develop this ability. Previous research indicates that it emerges around the age of four, but research at Lund University in Sweden shows that children can demonstrate this abi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/attentive-adults-increase-childrens-ability-empathise - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a cytoskeleton which provides the structure for mitochondria, the cell’s energy producers. The skeleton is necessary for the function of the mitochondria, but the researchers also found that cancer cells utilise the skeleton to maintain their cellular respirator
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-cytoskeleton-helps-cancer-cells-survive - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Birds of the species Parus Major (great tit) living in an urban environment are at greater risk of dying young than great tits living outside cities. Research results from Lund University in Sweden show that urban great tits have shorter telomeres than others of their own species living in rural areas. According to th
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/urban-bird-species-risk-dying-prematurely-due-stress - 2026-04-21
A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, cancer patients were identified as an at-risk group, so forms of treatment were modified. Now a group of physicians at Lund University want to evaluate how these new forms of treatment were experienced by the patients themselve
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Half of all patients who survive a cardiac arrest experience problems with cognitive functions such as memory and attention. This has been shown by a major international study led from Lund University. Surprisingly, however, a control group comprising heart attack patients had largely the same level of problems. This
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cognitive-problems-are-common-after-cardiac-arrest - 2026-04-21
