News from REMEDY

These diseases have long been considered a risk factor for more severe heart attack. Now researchers have investigated how these patients are actually doing - and the findings challenge many have believed.

The usefulness study provided good reasons to proceed with the research on the Urika app. Now the randomized controlled study on digital follow -up of gout is underway.

The environmental commitment is strong in the rheumatological environment at Diakonhjemmet Hospital. A new action plan is working to reduce the environmental footprint. Here are some examples of measures across research groups and clinical departments. 

Eular 2025 - The European Rheumatology Congress - is over. Four hectic days of lectures, posters, debates and practical sessions gathered around 14,000 professionals from all over the world in Barcelona. Norway posed strongly, with broad participation from researchers, clinicians, health professionals and patient representatives. The themes excited from technology and pain mechanisms to health economics and patient involvement. Here are some of the contributions. 

Digital home follow -up by axial spondyloarthritis - a possible alternative? The doctoral fellow at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Emil Eirik Kvernberg Thomassen has been researching for the past three years. Now we can congratulate him on the PhD degree.

Dr. John Knitza, a leading figure in digital treatment technology in the rheumatology field, gave an interesting lecture when WP5 organized a summer seminar. The theme was about where the research in the digital area stands today and the direction going forward. Inger Jorid Berg and Emily V. Langballe presented exciting Norwegian research in the field.

At a time marked by climate change, loss of biodiversity and increasing environmental challenges, we need voices that manage to convey the complexity of nature's crises with both academic weight and human warmth. Dag O. Hess is one of them.

An important milestone is reached in the Picasso study, which is the largest of its kind. Over 200 participants are now included - and with that the project is well over halfway in goal with the inclusion. The study compares different treatments in painful osteoarthritis in the root of the thumb.