Faculty of Health Sciences - News

UEF's Brain Research Unit conducts high-quality clinical research and drug research and collaborates with local, Finnish and foreign research groups and the pharmaceutical industry.

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 proposed scoring model would ease the pressures on general upper secondary students and allow them to focus on subjects interesting them. The new scoring model for certificate-based admission will be published in autumn 2023.

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 findings and models from this doctoral research can be valuable in the development of more effective treatments for anterior segment ocular diseases.

The project examineses how mutations in the CACNA1C gene linked to psychiatric disorders and autism may affect microglia cells responsible for the brain’s immune defence.

About 150 degree students celebrated their graduation in a joint ceremony at the Joensuu and Kuopio campuses.

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