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According to the study, elderly neurological patients living with a family caregiver were more likely to accept RM than those who lived alone.

What we eat affects our gut microbes, and now researchers can follow both good and bad changes step by step.

A recent study by the University of Eastern Finland shows that barriers to accessing social and medical services among older immigrants and immigrants with dementia in Finland are interconnected.

This research systematically explored the potential of melanin binding as a strategy for generation of long-acting ocular drugs. In addition, cell culture models were established to study drug retention in pigmented cells.

Professor Seppo Ylä-Herttuala has been invited as a Foreign Member to Class V: Medicine of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Author Sirpa Kähkönen will receive an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences in a doctoral conferment ceremony on 6th of June.

The University of Eastern Finland’s ranking in Medicine improved in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was successful at reducing falls, especially among those with polypharmacy, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows.

Entrepreneurial skill-building, career transitions from academia to industry, and the future of research and innovation in neuroscience were key topics at Neurocenter Finland’s Annual Event.