08.09.2021: Eivind Andreas Warberg passed away on 25 July 2021 as the result of a drowning accident in the Faroe Islands. He was 45 years old. Eivind was born in Bergen in 1976 and grew up on the Faroe Islands. He graduated from the Medical Faculty, University of Copenhagen in 2005. He worked in the surgical department at Landssjúkrahusið in Tórshavn from 2006–08 and at Surgical Ward C, Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen in 2008, before moving to Norway to take up his post in the surgical department at Østfold Hospital later that year. He remained at Østfold Hospital whilst also working part time at Volvat...

22.02.2021: Arnold Berstad died on New Year's Eve 2020. Norway has lost one of its leading gastroenterologists – and perhaps the most curious, innovative and inspiring professional in the field. Arnold was born in Stryn in 1940, and grew up on a farm as the eldest of seven siblings. He attained a cand.med. at the University of Oslo in 1965, and started his academic career at Ullevål Hospital's IX Department in 1968. In 1971, he defended his thesis on the digestive enzyme pepsin – one of the most cited works in gastroenterology at the time. In 1972, Arnold began his clinical training at Lovisenberg...

15.06.2020: Per Andersen's death on 17 February 2020 at the age of 90 marked the end of an era. 'New generations of doctors and researchers need to learn about and be inspired by his important contributions, not only as an internationally renowned neuroscientist, but also as a tireless and highly capable communicator and a source of inspiration', says Are Brean, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Per Andersen's work spanned from the infancy of neurophysiology in the 1950s, when he helped pioneer the electrophysiological mapping of the brain's neural network, 'electro...

25.05.2020: On 2 April, our highly esteemed and dear colleague Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg, psychiatrist and professor of medicine, died at the age of almost 84. Many will know Astrid primarily as a politician and former cabinet minister. To us, she was above all a warm-hearted colleague who took an interest in all aspects of people's lives. The titles of the books she wrote (Det dyrebare håpet [Precious hope], Endring og undring [Change and Wonderment]) or co-edited with others (Så mye ensomhet: skjebner, kriser, muligheter) [So much loneliness: destinies, crises, opportunities]) are also keywords that...