News about Health

Language barriers and culture clash: Frustrations among Ukrainian refugees with the Danish healthcare system

Several Ukrainian refugees have sought alternative medical care and received medication from their home country despite getting rapid access to the Danish healthcare system. There is a risk that frustrated patients fall…

ADHD and autism diagnoses have increased: New study points to broader diagnoses as an explanation

Far more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism today than in the past, and a new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that the genetic contributions have decreased over the past 20 years.

Hoppner YD et al. PLoS Pathog 22: e1014377, 2026

Team DISCOVERY paper published

Professor Oliver Rando set to join CBMR on prestigious ERC grant

Professor Rando's research asks how ancestral experiences are epigenetically transmitted to future generations.

Researchers to teens: get to bed – it’s good for your blood sugar

If you’re 18, getting a bit more sleep could matter more than you think. New research from the University of Copenhagen and COPSAC shows that even in healthy young people, longer nights of sleep are linked to more stabl…

"I gathered small pieces from experts across CBMR and puzzled it together"

In this interview, Svenja Hansson explains why skeletal muscle has been overlooked in functional genomics, why CRISPR screens are such a powerful way to generate new hypotheses, and how a string of small, informal…

EnigmaHPAI.org version 1.2 released

The open access forecasting model for risk of avian influenza outbreaks in Europa https://www.enigmahpai.org/ has been updated.

Guerra PR et al. Vaccines 14: 515, 2026

Team DISCOVERY/ BIVAC/ VLPVAC paper published

Why ‘yo-yo dieting’ may not be as harmful as often believed

A review of research on repeated weight loss and regain suggests that yo‑yo dieting is not necessarily as harmful as it is often portrayed.

Naghizadeh M et al. NPJ Vaccines (in press)

Team EPITOPE/ BIVAC/ VLPVAC manuscript accepted

PhD Fellowship to Leticia Hartmann (DISCOVERY)

Support from DARA

Andrew W Thompson

M.Sc., Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Stauning MA et al. Malar J (in press)

Team DRUGS manuscript accepted

University of Copenhagen and Healthcare Denmark enter strategic partnership

The aim of the partnership is to foster international cooperation and showcase the unique strengths of Denmark's healthcare and life science ecosystem, innovation and research.

Professor Ruth Loos wins Kirsten and Freddy Johansen Foundation Award

Professor Ruth Loos has helped transform our understanding of how genetic factors interact with lifestyle to influence the risk of overweight and related diseases.

Researchers behind new spinout: Only a fraction of the chemicals in drinking water are tested for

Much of our drinking water contains hundreds of chemicals, but today we test for only a fraction of them. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have now launched a company offering an exceptionally broad…

Khote FL et al. Malar J (in press)

Team DRUGS manuscript accepted

Oldest strains of plague caused deadly outbreaks 5,500 years ago

A new study published in Nature reconstructs the earliest known plague genomes and for the first time shows that early forms of plague caused deadly outbreaks – long before the Black Death killed up to half the…

New scale measures mental health promoting behaviour

With the help of a nine-item scale, researchers from the University of Copenhagen are now able to measure mental health promoting behaviour and gain insight into how it affects our well-being.

Children improve their fraction skills by playing basketball in class

Combining fractions with basketball improves pupils’ mathematical skills in primary school, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes. The researcher behind it calls for the approach to be integrated into…

Children improve their fraction skills by playing basketball in class

Combining fractions with basketball improves pupils’ mathematical skills in primary school, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes. The researcher behind it calls for the approach to be integrated into…

Department of Clinical Medicine strengthens innovation efforts with new Deputy Head of Department

On 1 August, Clinical Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology Katrine Buggeskov will take up a newly established position as Deputy Head of Department at the Department of Clinical Medicine (IKM), with a particular focus…

To understand a weight-loss drug, scientists mapped a brain circuit older than humanity

Researchers have traced one drug's appetite-suppressing power to a single population of neurons buried deep in the brainstem.

Alexandra Blackwell: Building evidence for mental health and violence prevention among displaced youth

Meet Alexandra Blackwell, a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.