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Europe is facing urgent and significant challenges in maintaining sufficient standards of quality in healthcare. We discussed the increasing shortage of healthcare staff throughout Europe, as well as the high turnover of healthcare staff leaving the sector to continue their careers in different types of jobs and the growing percentage of occupational health-related disorders reported among healthcare staff (e.g. burnout, depression etc.) during an EAOHP “Healthy Healtcare” Small Group Meeting in March. Moreover, due to an aging workforce, more and more healthcare staff are expected to go to retirement. All of this has led to more and more healthcare employers searching for creative solutions to maintain and retain enough staff at work.

Lung cancer has been the most common cancer type for several decades with a low survival rate worldwide. Smoking is the most important risk factor for lung cancer, which accounts for 80-90 % of all lung cancer cases. Due to the declining trend in smoking, other lifestyle factors may become important for the incidence of lung cancer.

In 2018, Kenneth Kirkeng Andersen held a talk about the possibilities of ultrasound used in target treatment of cancer. He is a doctoral research fellow at the University in Southern Norway, working with the development of ultrasound.

Populations are ageing all over the world and inactivity-related diseases are on the rise. Why are most people inactive, and what are possible solutions for individuals and societies? These hard questions are dealt with by NTNU’s new MSc in Physical Activity and Health.

By Marcus Wild Within the maritime industry, ships use SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging) systems in order to make maps of the seabed. The…

Tormod Njølstad (59) is hired as Innovation Manager in the Ultrasound group at ISB by September 2018.

  By Tormod Njølstad, Innovation Manager in Ultrasound, NTNU. Twenty-nine experts and researchers associated with CIUS participated at IUS, the IEEE International Ultrasound Symposium…

When there are more then one serious Global health challenge, NTNU’s Global health day 2018 took the challenge and managed to make room for two main topics this year – both serious, but have different consequences for human health.

Children with dysfunction of the right heart chamber (ventricle), which pumps blood to the lungs, have lower tolerance to exercise and at risk of sudden cardiac death in more severe cases. This dysfunction usually sets in progressively and detection at earlier stages is crucial to guiding therapies and interventions that improve symptoms and survival. New ultrasound techniques, makes it easier detect and quantify the problem.