Premature gather at East

Next year collecting Sahlgrenska University Hospital, all care of premature infants to a place that they will not have to be transported unnecessarily.

Today conducted neonatal care at Ostra Hospital in Gothenburg and Mölndal Hospital, approximately one mil farther. For next summer, all the care of premature shift to Eastern Hospital.

Obesity decreases among Swedish children

Child Obesity decreases in Sweden for the first time, a new study shows. Most apparent trend in Stockholm.

Overweight and obesity among eight year old girls in Stockholm has decreased from 17 to 10 percent between 2003 and 2011, according to a national study at the Karolinska Institute, writes Dagens Nyheter.

With small steps and very game teaches Eva Stag Ling child to urinate with catheter or get enema

There is no doubt that soon four-year Alwin Grip will be pleased to meet with Eva Stag Ling. She is a pediatric nurse and waiting for him at the entrance to the Folke Bernadotte Regional Habilitation in Uppsala, when he comes with his mom. He will play and train in the art of pee with catheter. To pee as usual, he can not.

New dengue vaccine gave relatively protection

A new vaccine against dengue fever have shown promise, according to the researchers behind a new study.

In the current situation there is no vaccine against dengue, a flu-like illness with fever. In light of the results from the new study, to be regarded as positive: vaccine candidate said to provide 56 percent protection against the disease.

Newborns infected with MRSA

Three cases of MRSA infection has been detected in people who were treated in BB in Kristianstad. More potential vehicles are investigated.

It was in mid-July as the first case of MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was discovered. A culture of a little difficult healed wound of a woman who remained inside the BB showed that she wore on the multi-resistant bacteria. Then found by plantations also infection in two children, who lived in the same room. The woman is not the mother of the infected children.

More cancers found by mammography in three dimensions

A follow-up from the United States indicate that more invasive cancers found during screening mammography since called tomosynthesis introduced. In addition, the technique seems to lead to fewer false positives.

The results, published in a new study in the journal JAMA, based on analysis of over 450 000 mammograms.

First hand prosthesis with sensory

The 36-year-old Dennis Aabo Sørensen from Denmark regained feeling in his arm amputated by a new type of prosthetic hand, which so far only works in the laboratory.

Thanks to the new prosthesis, he could talk about how different objects looked like and if they were soft or hard - without looking at the objects. He could also customize the grip strength for this information.