Health, Body & Mind

New Professional Master’s Degree Programme in Neurorehabilitation Will Strengthen Practitioners

The University of Copenhagen is introducing a new professional master’s degree programme in neurorehabilitation. It is targeted at physiotherapists, nurses, occupational therapists, doctors and other practitioners, who…

New Algorithm Uses Disease History to Predict Intensive Care Patients’ Chances of Survival

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have used data on more than 230,000 intensive care patients to develop a new algorithm. Among other things, it uses disease history from the past 23 years…

Research Team Identifies the First Gene that Increases the Risk of Fainting

Fainting is not solely caused by external factors. Your genes also play a part. This has recently been documented by research team from the University of Copenhagen, Statens Serum Institut and Rigshospitalet. Based on…

Needleless vaccine will protect children from dangerous viruses

Orally administered vaccine can protect millions from hepatitis B. Oral vaccines are both safer and less expensive than injections. Therefore, researchers are continuously pursuing ways to produce an oral vaccine that i…

Risk and unnaturalness cannot justify EU’s strict policy on GMO

The EU’s policy on GMO is extremely strict and prevents new GMO crops from being authorized. The policy is based on arguments about the risk and unnaturalness of GMO plants – but these arguments cannot justify the…