Institute of Clinical Medicine - News

The FINGER study is set to continue with a follow-up study conducted in Oulu, Kuopio, Seinäjoki, Turku, and Helsinki.

The University of Lodz in Poland has awarded Professor Kai Kaarniranta with the prestigious Medal Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Prize.

A new study suggests that skin fibroblasts from frontotemporal dementia patients may be useful in investigating underlying disease mechanisms as well as in biomarker and drug research.

The doctoral dissertation of Panu Piirainen, Lic Med, showed that oxycodone, a commonly used opioid, is feasible for epidural analgesia.

The PhD thesis of Maria Heikkinen, Lic Med, inspects the incidence of vocal fold paresis related to surgical procedures and identifies risk factors for vocal fold paresis in thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

The PhD thesis of Annika Piirainen, Lic Med, explores the dosage, administration and related adverse events of three non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in postoperative pain management after cholecystomy, back surgery and arthroplasty.

Postoperative drug administration is essential to help cardiac surgery patients recover without undesired events and reap long-term benefits from the surgical procedure.

Wearable sensor technology can be used to reliably assess the occurrence of myoclonic jerks in patients with epilepsy also in the home environment.

A new study by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland shows for the first time that blood-based measurement of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) enables distinguishing patients with frontotemporal dementia from those with primary psychiatric disorders or healthy individuals.

A family history of cough increases the risk of both the onset and persistence of cough, according to the PhD study of Anne Lätti, Lic Med.