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The University of Eastern Finland will showcase its expertise in collaboration with Kuopio Health at Radical Health Festival Helsinki 2023, a new pan-European conference bringing together key players in digital health.

Providing better opportunities for exercise and group training reduced recurrent falls and fall injuries among older women, according to a study conducted in collaboration with the City of Kuopio.

The symposium is open to all scientists and clinicians who are interested in brain tumour research. It is free-of-charge for Ph.D. students enrolled in any doctoral programme at UEF, but there are only limited seats available.

Socioeconomic hardships experienced during the 1990s recession were associated with a higher risk of incident cardiovascular morbidity among middle-aged and older Finnish women during 18 years of follow-up and with an increased risk of developing prostate-genital cancer within 20 years of follow-up among men.

The lecture topics range from radiation biology to forest planning, and from pharmaceutical policy and brain health to literature and education.

The use of background music was found to reduce dental students’ stress and improve their performance during preclinical tooth preparation exercises.

The international Master’s Degree Programme in Toxicology at the University of Eastern Finland is the only graduate programme in the field in Finland. Toxicology expertise is utilised in chemical risk assessment.

The research infrastructures of the University of Eastern Finland have been added to the national Research.fi portal, and they are also increasingly visible on the university’s own website.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has decided on funding to support early-career researchers and scientific renewal through 44 new Academy Research Fellowships.

The treatment of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome is controversial. According to the PhD thesis, it is worth offering operative treatment as an alternative to patients with troublesome NTOS symptoms if they do not respond to conservative treatment.