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An abrupt end
- Kari Tveito
09.09.2024:
Some people's lives are shorter than they might have been. But suicide can be prevented. September 10 marks World Suicide Prevention Day, an initiative started in 2003 by the International Association for Suicide Prevention, supported by the World Health Organization (1). Its purpose is to raise...
The Garden City of India
- Kari Tveito
22.04.2024:
What do war, climate change and extreme weather events have in common? They threaten the access to clean water. As the UN marked World Water Day on 22 March (1), residents of Bengaluru were queuing up to fill their buckets. Asia's Silicon Valley, with its 14 million inhabitants, is the third largest...
A compassionate health service
- Kari Tveito
06.11.2023:
#legermåleve may go down in history as the action campaign that changed Norway's health sector. On 4 June 2023, a young female hospital doctor took her own life. A few days later, her partner wrote a Facebook post urging doctors and healthcare workers to take action to address their working...
The slimming jab
- Kari Tveito
08.05.2023:
The global community has been trying to overcome the obesity epidemic for several decades, all while people have only been getting heavier. Have we finally found the right medicine? Elon Musk has done it. Hollywood stars do it. A small jab in the skin once a week. That's all it takes to lose weight...
From Icelandic family sagas to Neanderthal genes
- Kari Tveito
07.11.2022:
Who are we? Where do we come from? Such questions have intrigued people since time immemorial. Only the tools used to dig through the past have changed. For days, Reykjavík has been shrouded in dense fog. However, as we step out of the headquarters of DeCODE genetics, the clouds are breaking up. A...
Oral health is a public health issue
- Kari Tveito
14.02.2022:
Healthy teeth and gums give us a nice smile, but not everyone can afford them. Despite increasing prosperity in Norway over the last century, significant social health inequalities still remain (1). High earners with a lengthy education live longer and enjoy better health than those with less...
India's pandemics
- Kari Tveito
10.05.2021:
As nightlife opens up in Europe and the United States, the flames of funeral pyres light up the sky over India's teeming cities. The country was gripped by a dawning optimism. Herd immunity had been reached in a number of places, and the pandemic was on its way out. Or so they thought. Prime...
#longcovid
- Kari Tveito
12.10.2020:
The textbook on long-lasting COVID-19 is written by the patients themselves. In the classical board game of 'Snakes and Ladders' you can take a shortcut if you land on a square with a ladder. If you land on a snake, on the other hand, you must move some steps back. It was such a situation that Paul...