THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL’S MAJOR CALL FOR PROPOSALS. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg will receive a total of SEK 150 million from the Swedish Research Council in the 2020 call for medicine and health research proposals. Eight young researchers are receiving starting grants, and 30 researchers are receiving project grants. In total, just over 15 percent of the available funds in the medicine and health call go to researchers…
New episode of our podcast (in Swedish): Research on how COVID-19 affects pregnant women, their newborns and partners
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION. Pregnant women are not a pronounced risk group but are urged to be careful to avoid becoming infected with COVID-19. So far, smaller studies have pointed to an increase risk of blood clots and premature births from the infection but larger studies are needed to confirm this. The latest edition of Akademiliv, the podcast from Sahlgrenska Academy, is about a new national research project begun by researchers at…
Podcast guest Joakim Öhlén: The picture of palliative care needs to be nuanced
PODCAST. The image that has appeared in the media of palliative care is in many ways incorrect. Professor Joakim Öhlén is the latest guest in the podcast Akademiliv (podcast in Swedish). Here you can hear the podcast with Joakim Öhlén: https://soundcloud.com/sahlgrenskaakademin/podgasten-joakim-ohlen-bilden-av-palliativ-vard-behover-nyanseras Patients do not have to be dying to receive palliative care, instead, according to Joakim Öhlén, palliative care is a kind of life help, which helps patients to live…
Ready to take advantage of the spring’s experience from online teaching
DIGITALIZATION. This autumn, the REDO group will continue discussing ways of solving various problems from distance education and support efforts to digitize teaching for the faculty’s teachers. Towards the end of the year, the group will also present a report on lessons learned from the pandemic and working methods Sahlgrenska Academy can use in the future. REDO is the Swedish word for ready and is the short name for the…
Intrahospital transport of ICU patients a moment of risk
DOCTORAL THESIS. When bedbound intensive care patients are moved within a hospital, the single most common risk factor is nonfunctioning technology and equipment. These transfers, a well-known moment of risk, have been studied in a University of Gothenburg thesis. Moving critically ill patients within a hospital, for investigations and treatments, always entails risks. Today, however, the majority of these patients are in need of transport to be X-rayed or undergo…