School of Medicine - News

The University of Eastern Finland presented Eveliina Ojala, Doctor of Theology, Maryam Samavaki, PhD, Timo Pekkala, MD, and Pasi Hirvonen, Doctor of Social Sciences, with the Young Researcher Award 2020.

The new strategy aims is to make Finland a key player in the transition to a healthy and sustainable global food system.

The aim of the new national competence network is to increase cooperation between universities, hospitals, and the business worlds and to make Finnish neuroscience know-how visible internationally.

Homes with dogs have considerably richer and more diverse bacterial microbiota than homes without a dog. This was observed in a recent study published in Scientific Reports.

Increasing vigorous physical activity reduces cardiometabolic risk factors already in primary school children, according to the doctoral thesis of Juuso Väistö, MHSc.

Certain plasma microRNAs could serve as diagnostic biomarkers in mild traumatic brain injury, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

The doctoral thesis of Emmi-Leena Ihantola, MSc, provides new insights into T-cell dysfunction and autoantigen recognition in type 1 diabetes.

Stereotactic body radiation therapy SBRT and low dose-rate brachytherapy LDR-BT are both safe and efficient in the treatment of localised prostate cancer, according to the doctoral dissertation of Kristiina Vuolukka, Lic Med.

A new review reveals insights into the potential drivers of a currently incurable eye disease, age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Being overweight is an additional burden on brain health and it may exacerbate the disease.