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Chewing gum and smoking – the background to Nicorette ”How did you get the idea for Nicorette?” – Professor Claes Lundgren (now in the United States) responds that he had long pondered the idea of an addictive dependency on nicotine when US researcher Dr. Edward Lanphier visited him in 1968. Dr. Lanphier planned to study the research at the Aviation and Naval Medicine division of the Department of
https://www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university/history-faculty/claes-lundgren-and-stephan-lichtnecker - 2025-10-03
Nordic network for narratives in medicine and Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities host this year’s network meeting in Lund, 3–4 October The conference will explore and discuss ranges of proximity in relation to narratives in medicine. How do modes of closeness and distance, understood on a literal as well as a metaphorical level, come to play in the understanding of suffering, illness, he
Their pioneering work with ultrasound in the diagnosis of diseases of the heart Department of Internal Medicine in Lund, 29 October 1953. As usual, cardiologist Inge Edler was calm on the surface, but probably rather tense internally. It's the first time he's placing a bulky ultrasound sensor on the chest of a cardiac patient. Beside him was physicist Hellmuth Hertz. He eagerly adjusted the amplif
https://www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university/history-faculty/inge-edler-and-hellmuth-hertz - 2025-10-03
“Creativity in Life: How Literature, Art, and Music Affect Illness and Health” When? 4 October Where? LUX Auditorium, Helgonavägen 3, Lund How? Light (and sparkling) refreshments are served at 16.15 outside LUX Auditorium, followed by Rita Charon’s lecture until approx. 18.30. Participation is free of charge. For whom? This is an open lecture in English. Registration Register for the event (we
From autumn 2024, this information is moved to the Student web.Go to information about summer scholarships 2025 (the faculty's student web)Go to information for supervisors (the faculty's student web)
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/masters-programmes-and-advanced-courses/summer-scholarships-2025 - 2025-10-03
Purpose of surveillanceLund University operates camera surveillance (CCTV)for the purposes of preventing, hindering, uncovering and deterring criminal acts within the buildings and facilities in which the University operates, and by doing so protects its staff, guests and property from criminal acts. Legal basisThe processing of personal data that takes place as a result of camera surveillance is
https://www.medicine.lu.se/camera-surveillance-cctv - 2025-10-03
Exchange students within Medicine must have completed at least three years of study towards a Master in Medical Science, including at least one course in basic clinical Medicine, to be considered for the clinical courses outlined below. Students must possess basic knowledge concerning the physical examination of patients.Click on the headlines/links below to read more.Clinical placements for excha
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/medicine - 2025-10-03
Occupational Therapy is taught as a three-year undergraduate programme leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy. The programme is taught in Swedish.Students from partner universities are welcome to apply to clinical placements, given with supervision in English, and a selection of theoretical courses. The courses can be taught in English upon request.Courses offered aut
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/occupational-therapy - 2025-10-03
At the moment there are no possibilites of accepting international students within the programme. Contact information Christina JeppssonEmail: christina [dot] jeppsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (christina[dot]jeppsson[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)Tel: +46 (0) 46-222 71 13Coordinating exchanges within:Medicine (inbound)Sofie WallbergEmail: sofie [dot] wallberg [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (sofie[dot]wallbe
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/physiotherapy - 2025-10-03
Exchange students from partner universities can apply for courses from the Master's Programme in Public Health. The Master's Programme in Public Health is a two-year (four semesters) full time master programme. Very few places are available each semester, admission is not guaranteed. Only applicants with a complete Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and proficiency in English equivalent to English B
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/public-health - 2025-10-03
The Department of Radiography welcomes students within the Erasmus Radiography Group (ERG) for exchange studies. The Erasmus Programme takes place during the final semester (semester 6), for 13 weeks between January and April. In order to take part of this programme your ERG-coordinator must nominate you within the network.Radiography and Patient Care in NeuroradiologyCourse code: RSJA30Credits: 2
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/radiography - 2025-10-03
At the moment there are no possibilites of accepting international students within the programme. Contact information International Office (the Faculty's internal website)
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/speech-pathology-and-audiology - 2025-10-03
The idea for a new x-ray contrast medium ”I don't remember what day it was,” says retired Professor of Radiology Torsten Almén in Malmö. ”But it was probably some time in 1964 that I got the idea. I was performing an angiography at the old radiology department at MAS (Malmö General Hospital, now Malmö University Hospital). I rinsed the catheter while it was inside the patient's artery in the groin
https://www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university/history-faculty/torsten-almen - 2025-10-03
On this page you can find Biomedicine courses that are open for incoming exchange students. We offer a number of courses taught in English, at both Bachelor's and Master's level. Bachelor's level - autumn semester Developmental and Stem Cell BiologyCourse code: BIMB30Credits: 7.5Study period: 2025-09-01 - 2025-09-30Syllabus BIMB30 Developmental and Stem Cell Biology (PDF, 221 kB, new window)From N
https://www.medicine.lu.se/study-faculty-medicine/exchange-studies/biomedicine - 2025-10-03
A protein structure prediction facility at Lund University About LU-FoldLU-Fold is a Lund University-based facility for helping researchers predict protein structures of interest using the cutting-edge method AlphaFold2 (Nature Methods method of the year, 2021). LU-Fold specialises in high-throughput prediction of protein complexes to predict novel protein-protein interactions. For example, we can
https://www.medicine.lu.se/research/list-research-infrastructures/lu-fold - 2025-10-03
In the early 1990s, the Cancer Foundation initiated a large cohort study with the primary goal of investigating the relationship between diet and subsequent cancer risk. The MDC study was led by the professor of internal medicine, Göran Berglund, and the professor of epidemiology, Lars Janzon. Between 1991 and 1996, 17,000 women were recruited (born 1923-1950) and 11,000 men (born 1923-1945), whic
https://www.malmo-cohorts.lu.se/malmo-diet-and-cancer-mdc - 2025-10-03
There are three different versions of the baseline questionnaire, version two is considered the main version. The questionnaire contains, among other things, questions about physical activity, medications, both prescription and non-prescription, and family diseases. Information on these issues is stored in separate files as they usually contain several rows per participant. The survey that was con
https://www.malmo-cohorts.lu.se/malmo-diet-and-cancer-mdc/data-collection-mdc - 2025-10-03
EPIC was set up to investigate relationships between diet, nutrition, lifestyle and environmental factors and the onset of cancer and other chronic diseases. EPIC is the largest study ever made of diet and health, involving over half a million people in ten European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and Sweden.Researchers at EPIC are
The dietary method used in the Malmö Diet Cancer is specially developed for the study. The choice of method was guided by the need to estimate the total diet in a middle-aged to elderly population, where eating habits largely consisted of regular, home cooked meals with meals eaten less often outside the home. The method consists of three parts:a Menu book, that is, a 7-day food diarya Dietary his
https://www.malmo-cohorts.lu.se/malmo-diet-and-cancer-mdc/mdc-diet-method - 2025-10-03
