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A new AI algorithm that detects brain abnormalities could enable more people with epilepsy to have potentially curative surgery.

An extensive meta-analysis suggests that vitamin D supplementation may alleviate depressive symptoms in adults with depression.

Balance test could be included in routine health checks for older adults, say researchers.

The doctoral conferment festivities in Kuopio culminated in the ceremonial conferment of degrees at the Music Centre in Kuopio on Friday. Doctorates were conferred upon 122 doctoral graduates as well as upon 13 honorary doctors. For the first time in a long while, the conferment procession was seen on the streets of Kuopio.

Pregnant women’s use of alcohol correlates with that of their partner, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows.

The novel mHealth monitoring techniques, necklace-ECG, mHealth patch, and heart belt provided high quality ECG and ECG-based heart rate variability (HRV) data resulting in high sensitivity and specificity of AF detection.

Finland still lacks national and systematic EMS patient data and data of the benefits of Emergency Medical Services to these patients.

Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation funds a collaborative epilepsy research project between A.I.Virtanen Institute and KUH Epilepsy Center. The long term aim of the project is to improve the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.

Frontotemporal dementia patients with extrapyramidal symptoms have brainstem atrophy and reduced metabolism in certain areas of the brain significantly more often than patients without extrapyramidal symptoms, a new study shows.

“When we know more about the interactions between genes and lifestyles, it is possible to strive for increasingly individualised risk assessment and better targeted treatment of cardiovascular disease,” Professor Jari Laukkanen says.