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Conducted at the University of Eastern Finland, a new study shows that images portraying dementia in Finnish newspapers often paint a clichéd and negative picture.

The new findings highlight the importance of an active lifestyle, good physical fitness and moderate screen time for brain development in adolescence.

The UEF Library’s Contributor for Open Science Award 2025 was given to the FOODNUTRI – Climate Smart Food and Nutrition Research Infrastructure project.

Active and passive tobacco exposure during childhood and adolescence represents a critical preventable risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease, according to a new narrative review.

The community's symposium presentations highlighted how interdisciplinary approaches are essential for understanding the complexity of cardiovascular diseases and advancing their prevention, diagnostics and therapeutics.

A team of researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital explores the commercialisation of a hearing rehabilitation innovation.

According to the researchers, future studies should focus particularly on the role of psychosocial determinants in explaining modal shifts towards active and sustainable commuting.

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients’ skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients’ brains.

The unique Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes offer new insight into planetary health, faith and wellbeing, and data engineering.

Adolescent athletes’ cardiovascular system may adapt to increased cardiorespiratory fitness by increasing blood pressure, arterial stiffness and heart growth, a new study shows.