News from REMEDY

Minister of Health Jan Christian Vestre visited Diakonhjemmet hospital on 15 October. He wants to ensure that the apps in work package 5 do not have to be CE-marked as high-risk medical equipment.

All About Clinical Trials course will be held at Diakonhjemmet hospital, Oslo 12-13. December 2024. It is a generic course that covers all aspects of clinical trials. Although built by cardiologists, it is relevant to anyone interested in clinical trials. The course is particularly suitable for PhD candidates.

New research project on biological medicines:

- This will be a national boost. We hope that we will conduct a study that can change clinical practice, says project manager Silje Watterdal Syversen at the REMEDY centre.

In this webinar, Ingvild Kjeken talks about patient education and lifestyle changes, based on insights that emerged at this year's EULAR conference in Vienna, in June 2024. 

Cand. Med. Ingrid Egeland Christensen has recently completed her doctorate at the Diakonhjemmet Hospital and the research center REMEDY. The dissertation, Serious infections in patients with inflammatory joint diseases, sheds light on the increased risk of serious infections in patients treated with biological drugs.

In the second quarter of this year, we received 37 media reports. Here is a little more detail about some of them. The overview of those found is in the table you will find at the bottom of this case. You will also find links to the cases it was possible to link to. 

Don't miss this year's hashtag # MUSS, the National Musculoskeletal Health Research Conference!

Today, all patients with rheumatoid arthritis (arthritis) receive the same dose of biological drugs. The researchers are now investigating whether an individually adapted dose means that more people will get a better effect from the medicines.