Faculty of Health Sciences - News

Playing a single 18-hole round of golf or completing 6 km of either Nordic walking or regular walking may significantly improve immediate cognitive function in older individuals, according to a recent study.

Examining cortical biopsy samples from living individuals, researchers discovered early Alzheimer’s disease-associated cellular changes in three cell types.

Frontotemporal dementia doesn’t usually start with memory symptoms; instead, initial symptoms may include changes in behaviour, personality or mood.

In her PhD study, Aisha Banafa, BDS, investigated how different biological, social, and psychological risk factors can interact to increase the risk of pain in the jaw's muscles and joints in Finnish adults.

In vitro and in vivo methodologies were employed to investigate ocular drug metabolism across species and ocular tissues.

12 weeks of HIIT without dietary changes and weight loss ameliorated the metabolic effects of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease on a whole-body level.

A link has been found between Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and liver diseases in Finland. Humans are exposed to these environmental pollutants mainly through food, such as fish, fruit, and meat and dairy products.

Tetsuya Terasaki has opened a new research field of pharmacoproteomics, which is expected to play an important role in the progress of the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences in the next decade.

Hanken School of Economics, the University of Turku and the University of Vaasa to join the Finnish universities’ partner network offering doctoral courses.

Boosting virtual screening with machine learning allowed for a 10-fold time reduction in the processing of 1.56 billion drug-like molecules.