Faculty of Health Sciences - News

UEF is the first Finnish higher education institution to join the UNAI iunitiative.

The PhD study investigated the interplay between the trilemma of core competence, quality of care, and patient safety.

UEF received special praise from the audit team for UEF has a well-known strategy by staff and for the development of internationalisation.

Fewer cases of melanoma were observed in people with a history of atopic diseases, such as allergic asthma or rhinitis, than in nonatopic people.

The three-decade-old international cutpoint for diagnosing children and adolescents with an enlarged heart misclassifies normal heart size as cardiac damage in adolescents, a new study concludes.

The awarded abstract sums up the link between "Life’s Essential 8" lifestyle and risk factors and the risk of stroke in Finnish men.

The goal of the GEREMY consortium is to find a cure for inherited arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), a rare cardiac disease.

Kuopio Biomedical Imaging Unit (Kuopio-BIU) provides open-access services for research and imaging.

Just over a year ago, the University of Eastern Finland got its very own knitting pattern for woollen socks, inspiring knitting enthusiasts across the country to knit socks with the UEF logo on them. Now, UEF has served as inspiration for knitting patterns for sweaters and mittens.

The invited speakers are top-notch professionals from the U.S., Canada, Ghana and Finland.