News from REMEDY

On May 7-9, 2025, the graduate school course User Participation in Medical and Health Research was conducted at the Eitri Medical Incubator Center for the 4th time. 

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.

Brown has researched personal treatment. Can her research be the solution for patients who do not benefit as much from drugs as others?

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: Four hectic days of lectures, posts, 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. . 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.