Faculty of Health Sciences - News

Could saunas be used for firefighters’ health promotion? To find out, Professor OiSaeng Hong wanted to work with the world’s best sauna researchers, so she came to Finland.

From lab work in Ghana to lakeside learning in Kuopio, Nathaniel Opare Oman’s journey into Toxicology is both personal and purposeful. In Kuopio, he found not only world-class teaching but also a peaceful environment that supports both academic growth and well-being.

The University of Eastern Finland climbed to the top 500 universities in the world in the latest ranking published by Times Higher Education, THE.

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients’ skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the synaptic loss and dysfunction detected in the patients’ brains.

The unique Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes offer new insight into planetary health, faith and wellbeing, and data engineering.

The University of Eastern Finland is launching a major recruitment initiative to attract internationally distinguished scholars to permanent, full-time professorships.

Adolescent athletes’ cardiovascular system may adapt to increased cardiorespiratory fitness by increasing blood pressure, arterial stiffness and heart growth, a new study shows.

NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease, N-ERD, is associated with measurable changes in concentrations of lipid mediators involved in inflammation and pain modulation, a new study shows.

A new infrastructure called FIRE is being built in Finland to accelerate the use of administrative registers for research.

Professor Alice Lichtenstein has visited Kuopio annually, since the 1990s, to give PhD students of nutrition lectures on topics spanning from study design to cardiovascular diseases and the microbiome.