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Healthcare consolidation is a global trend aimed at increasing efficiency in the face of rising costs and declining rural populations. A recent study examines the effects of maternity ward closures in Sweden from 1990 to 2004 on maternal and neonatal health, as well as the associated birth technology choices and travel distances to wards. The research reveals a complex set of outcomes.“Maternal tr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/impact-maternity-ward-closures-maternal-and-neonatal-health - 2026-05-15

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete has been a doctoral student at the Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will soon be defending his dissertation project “Plastic Extension of Music” (22 May 2025). Part of his doctoral defence is a large exhibition that will take place at IAC (16–23 May 2025). What is your dissertation project about?My research is called “Plastic Extension of Music” and it's q

https://www.konstnarliga.lu.se/artikel/if-your-music-was-sculpture-what-would-it-look-meet-bertrand-chavarria-aldrete-find-out-more - 2026-05-15

Lund University and SRA EpiHealth support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through project seeding funding that covers salary costs for preparation of a project application and a research plan targeting national funding bodies. Hallo Shomaila!How do you use your seed money from Epihealth?- The EpiHealth seed money supports preparatory analyses aimed at exploring how individual-level

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/funding-helps-me-take-first-steps-developing-and-validating-new-tools - 2026-05-15

Fainaz Inamdeen, a PhD student in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded the 2025 SASNET PhD Travel Grant. The funding will support a two-week research stay at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, where Fainaz Inamdeen will continue his work on bridge scour - an increasingly urgent issue as extreme river flows become more common due to climate change.The visit builds on

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/fainaz-inamdeen-awarded-2025-sasnet-phd-travel-grant - 2026-05-15

There will be another five million Swedish kronor for CASE's research. Project leader Björn Slaug and the co-applicants recently received a grant from Forte for the welfare project SUN-AGE: Supporting neighborhood and living environments for aging populations, which will begin after the turn of the year and run until 2026. What does a grant of this size mean? – Now we can finally get started and c

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/another-million-grant-research-about-active-living - 2026-05-15

There is a well-known relationship between socioeconomic status and health, where people with lower socioeconomic status generally tend to have worse health and increased mortality. In a new dissertation, doctoral student Maria Lindéus at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Lund University examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and outcomes related to bone fractures and oste

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/there-link-between-socioeconomic-status-and-osteoarthritis - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “We want to use the knowledge of those who have worked for many years with the care and treatment of elderly people, and who are now growing older themselves. We mustn’t let their knowledge go to waste!” said Professor Emerita Bodil Jönsson at the start of the project Uppdrag Kunskap, in which 20 senior citizens will

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/older-researchers-offer-new-dimension-elderly-research - 2026-05-15

Exactly one year after Sven met the orthopedic doctor in Lund for the first time, he gets an appointment at the hospital where he is to be operated. The first appointment is for an enrollment interview, during which he will meet an orthopedic specialist, an anesthesiologist, a physiotherapist and a nurse. Sven does not meet the same orthopedic doctor as he did a year ago, but he could feel that th

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/reportage-get-ready-surgery-sven - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In addition to the Data Protection Regulation Jens Henricson has completed the artistic intervention Measurement of Time that was commissioned by Akademiska Hus and the Swedish Public Art Agency, owned and managed by Akademiska Hus and integrated in the glazed facade of the Police Education Building at Umeå University

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-jens-henricson - 2026-05-15

Malin Parmar, Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Lund University and Director of the Lund Stem Cell Center, has been elected Vice President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the world’s leading organisation for stem cell science and regenerative medicine. The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is an independent, global, nonprofit organization that brings tog

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/professor-malin-parmar-elected-vice-president-international-society-stem-cell-research - 2026-05-15

Antibiotic treatments help the body to fight infections and should have as little negative impact on humans as possible. A new study in the journal Nature Medicine shows that the use of antibiotics can affect the human gut microbiota for several years. The study found that some types of antibiotics had a greater impact on the gut microbiota than others. “It is great that we have antibiotics which

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/antibiotics-can-have-long-term-effect-gut-microbiota - 2026-05-15

No 56, 5 March 2026 Welcome to the latest addition of the NAISS training newsletter.   This time we have four new events:  User developing and optimising applications on the Grace Hopper GPU nodes on Dardel or the future Arrhenius system may be interested to join us in the end of March.  We have a course on using Python in an HPC environment and the Programming Formalisms course.   Users of our se

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-9 - 2026-05-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Margareta Johansson, research coordinator at our department, will receive 10 million euros of EU framework program Horisont 2020. The money is for the infrastructure project INTERACT. INTERACT aims to make available data from around 75 research stations in the Arctic.The project will run for four years. It is coordina

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/margareta-johansson-granted-millions-new-project - 2026-05-15

Research has shown that only one out of three individuals with osteoarthritis receives appropriate care. Doctoral candidate Simone Battista aims to explore why many osteoarthritis patients are not offered the right treatment. Simultaneously, he seeks to understand how aware individuals with osteoarthritis are of available treatments to alleviate osteoarthritis symptoms. This study is a collaborati

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/italian-doctoral-student-wants-find-out-why-so-few-osteoarthritis-patients-receive-proper-care - 2026-05-15

The 2025 COMPUTE autumn meeting is scheduled for the 2nd of December 2025. We are having a morning session with presentations from former Lund University PhD students, who have moved on to working in the public sector and the games industry.  In the afternoon we will have two workshops provided by speakers from InfraVis discussing visualisation and strategies for the visualisation of research data

https://www.compute.lu.se/article/register-compute-autumn-meeting-computational-work-public-sector-and-industry-2nd-december - 2026-05-15

A warm welcome to the book presentation of the publication “Creative Data Lab”! 26 May 2026, at 09:00 to 11:00 | Inter Arts Center, 4th floor, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö (Café/Research Platform)Creative Data Lab (CDL), hosted as an Advanced Study Group during 2025 at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University, brought together artist-researchers and research support staff to explore a

https://www.iac.lu.se/article/book-release-creative-data-lab - 2026-05-15

Researchers from Theme 3 and Theme 6 within NextG2Com had the opportunity to visit the Children’s Heart Center at Skåne University Hospital in Lund. Under the guidance of Chief of Surgery Kiet Tran and Associate Senior Lecturer Maj Stenmark, the participants were given an insight into the center’s daily activities and the work of the CAISA project. One percent of children born in Sweden are born w

https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/en/article/smallest-patients - 2026-05-15

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/simple-diagnostic-tool-predicts-individual-risk-alzheimers - 2026-05-15

E-besök är en vanlig form av digitala läkarbesök, där patienten fyller i ett frågeformulär på nätet och därefter kommunicerar med en läkare via chatt. Det har hittills saknats forskning för hur e-besöken påverkar läkarens vårdbeslut, men en ny avhandling har nu utvärderat den digitala vårdkedjan i svensk sjukvård. – Över 60 procent av alla patientmöten sker inom primärvården. Därför behövs mer pri

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/digitala-vardkedjan-utvarderad - 2026-05-15

E-besök är en vanlig form av digitala läkarbesök, där patienten fyller i ett frågeformulär på nätet och därefter kommunicerar med en läkare via chatt. Det har hittills saknats forskning för hur e-besöken påverkar läkarens vårdbeslut, men en ny avhandling har nu utvärderat den digitala vårdkedjan i svensk sjukvård. – Över 60 procent av alla patientmöten sker inom primärvården. Därför behövs mer pri

https://www.lu.se/artikel/digitala-vardkedjan-utvarderad - 2026-05-16