How should Norway legalize egg donation?
He made one of Norway's first test tube babies. Now Professor Arne Sunde says that the Norwegian Biotechnology Council’s proposal for an egg donation programme in Norway is so poorly conceived that...
View ArticleInterpreting ultrasound images using an app
Ultrasound is coming into ever more widespread use, and an app that trains health personnel to interpret ultrasound images has just been developed.
View ArticleUsers to fine-tune hearing aids themselves
More than 20 per cent of people with hearing aids use their devices for less than one hour a day because of problems they encounter with tuning the settings. But now users can participate in...
View ArticleFamily’s hereditary cancer gene found
When almost a third of a hundred members of one family had cancer, or were cured of cancer, researchers began to look for a cancer-causing gene in the family. They found it after fifteen years of...
View ArticleHearts on screen
With the patient's heart displayed on a screen, cardiac specialists and engineers can run simulations of a variety of surgical procedures and predict their effects prior to an operation. This will save...
View ArticlePrecision injections of Botox into migraine ‘centres’
Researchers are using a high-precision instrument to inject toxins that alleviate migraine attacks. This means even better needle guidance and user-friendliness.
View ArticleAnaesthesia with surgical precision
Ultrasound technology will soon be helping doctors to anaesthetise patients more accurately. And the technology is being developed in Trondheim.
View ArticlePortable ultrasound brings help for heart failure patients
Specially trained nurses are able to dispense medication for heart patients more precisely using a pocket-sized ultrasound device.
View ArticleBubbles and ultrasound destroy tumours in lab animals
A new method for targeted delivery of cancer drugs in the body produces startling results. The method may soon be available for human use.
View ArticleNew method for detecting melanoma
Cancer in moles is not always easy to see with the naked eye. By analysing images, a new computer program can detect cancerous moles automatically.
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