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21.08.2025: In the final years of World War II, around 650 Norwegian students were held in prisoner-of-war camps and the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Seventeen of them lost their lives. In the autumn of 1943, around 650 male students at the University of Oslo were arrested by the occupying...

25.04.2023: Antimicrobial resistance is a threat to global public health and is driven mainly by use of antibiotics (1). One of the key goals of the 'Action Plan against Antibiotic Resistance in the Norwegian Health Service' was therefore to reduce the use of five selected groups of broad-spectrum antibiotics...

12.10.2020: At a Norwegian local hospital, ciprofloxacin use deviated from therapeutic recommendations in more than nine out of ten patients. Doctors must comply more closely with guidelines for antibiotic use. Andreassen and colleagues are to be commended for publishing a report on the incorrect use of...

26.11.2018: Pneumonia is a frequent admission diagnosis in Norwegian hospitals. Incidence, morbidity and mortality have been shown to increase with age and other risk factors, such as comorbidity (1). In cases of pneumonia acquired outside hospital, Streptococcus pneumoniae ( S. pneumoniae) is the most frequent...

19.01.2017: Lyme disease is a vector-borne zoonosis that is caused by infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi following a tick bite (1). Early localised disease manifests as erythema migrans, and approximately half of those infected have non-specific symptoms such as fever, myalgia, lymphadenopathy...

23.08.2016: Published for the first time: an article on a death in Norway due to resistance to antibiotics. In this edition of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, Hennig Onarheim et al. describe a patient who died due to the absence of efficacious antibiotics (1). The use of any antibiotics, and...

28.05.2013: New national guidelines are now being issued for use of antibiotics in the primary health care service. We encourage all Norwegian doctors to follow them. The effort to promote an acceptable use of antibiotics and to prevent further development of resistance is increasingly being given priority on...

10.01.2012: A previously healthy Norwegian-Pakistani woman in her late 20s was hospitalised because of listlessness. She had had pain lower back pain for a year and had herself discovered a lump in her flank. On admission she was in slightly poor general condition and was tender to palpation over the lower part...