News about Health

Nordic diet lowers cholesterol and blood sugar – even if you don't lose weight

A healthy Nordic diet can prevent a range of diseases. Until now, the health benefits attributed to a Nordic diet by researchers primarily focused on weight loss. But in a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers…

Your pet could protect your child against allergy

Scientists have debated whether or not growing up with a cat or a dog would influence either the risk of allergy or an asthmatic condition?

Huge study unveils the consumption of drugs by Danes

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Statistics Denmark have analysed more than one billion prescriptions issued by general practitioners. In the long term, the analysis may help to optimise prescription…

This molecule is vital to our survival. Now we know what it looks like

In order to live, all mammals depend on the function of a large molecule in our nerve cells made up of four proteins.

Children of parents with little education have increased risk of early death. Now we may know why

In a new study conducted at the University of Copenhagen, data on more than 1.2 million Danish children show a connection between parents’ level of education and children’s risk of dying too early. A main reason is…

‘We feel like one big village’: A study on social relations among social housing residents in Denmark

With her PhD, Abirami Srivarathan has researched the social relations and neighbourhood environment among middle-aged and older residents in a social housing area in Denmark.

COPE Annual Highlights 2021

Now available the 2021 COPE Annual Highlights with an overview of last year's COPE research and activities. Read or download the report below.

Naja Hulvej Rod was shaped by curious idol in the US

Today, Professor of Epidemiology Naja Hulvej Rod receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize, i.a. for her creative, cross-disciplinary research – especially within stress.

Industry and universities come together to support science in dairy

Under the partnership name Arla Food for Health (AFH), four key players from both industry and academia are exploring potential health effects of dairy and dairy ingredients. Three new re-search projects have been…

Scientists characterize the imbalanced gut bacteria of patients with myocardial infarction, angina and heart failure

Professor Oluf Pedersen from the University of Copenhagen, calls for stronger and more focused public health initiatives to prevent or delay these common diseases

The Nordic Pandemic Network gathered to discuss inequity and vulnerability in relation to COVID-19

Over the course of two half-days students, researchers, & implementers from a range of disciplines gathered online to examine matters of inequity and vulnerability in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic…

Well-functioning fat may be the key to fewer old-age ailments

Fat tissue plays an important role in human health. However, our fat tissue loses function as we age, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer and other ailments. High levels of lifelong exercise seem to…

When the elderly are involved in their treatment, they can get a better life

Patient involvement has been a manta within the healthcare system for a long time. Now new research from the University of Copenhagen proves that patient involvement actually does make a difference.

Improving delivery and care for mothers and newborns in Zanzibar

Rashid Saleh Khamis is writing his PhD at the PartoMa project. The research aims to improve the knowledge and skills of birth attendants, care during delivery, and outcomes for mothers and newborn babies in Zanzibar.

Genetic researchers can now explain different types of migraine

The world's largest gene study on migraine describes, for the first time, the genetic differences between migraine with and without aura.

Researchers gain a unique view of the inner life of cells

The ever-changing shape of the interior of cells limits our understanding to whatever snapshot we’re looking at under the microscope. Now, a new computer model developed at the University of Copenhagen is allowing…

We need to understand inequality in health to give more people a good old age

The government is on the way with an ageing act, and it should be an opportunity to develop a holistic strategy for the elderly, which focuses on inequality in health. It pays, both in person and financially. Read Maria…

A veterinary issue that triggers a public health issue

Ethical question of the month, November 2021 A strictly indoor cat is presented by its owner with the help of a member of a shelter. It has a mass, presumed to be an abscess, on one side of its neck. The mass is drained…

Monkeys lose their taste for alcohol when given liver hormone FGF21

Vervet monkeys, known for their love of alcohol, drink 50 percent less if given the hormone FGF15 preventatively.

Overlooked disease: Tens of thousands of people have problems at work

People with migraine or frequent tension headaches have a reduced work ability in particularly three areas. Researchers hope that workplaces will become better at accommodating those suffering from headaches.

Novo Nordisk Foundation hires Flemming Konradsen as Scientific Director of Global Health

Professor Flemming Konradsen has been appointed to a newly established position as Scientific Director of Global Health in the Social & Humanitarian department of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Satellite images reveal a nexus between war, cropland abandonment and food insecurity in South Sudan

A new study sheds light on a complex interaction of armed conflict, cropland abandonment and implications to food security in war-ravaged South Sudan.

Claire Meehan and Kenneth Madsen each receive the LF Experiments Grant of DKK 2 Million

26 researchers at Danish universities are receiving funding to conduct innovative neuroscience projects under the Lundbeck Foundation’s LF Experiments research programme. Among these are Claire Meehan and Kenneth Madsen…

Men’s health more vulnerable after breakups, divorces, and living alone, than women’s

A new study conducted at the University of Copenhagen establishes a connection between increased risk of inflammation in men and both breakup and living alone for a number of years.