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  First Virtual Communications demonstrates Click To Meet Web conferencing at telemedicine seminar in Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As a leading university hospital, Karolinska Hospital is always open for emergency and multitrauma cases.
Karolinska Hospital includes a comprehensive children's hospital, and the largest lab facility in the Nordic region.
As a research hospital, they are also pioneering care and research on diseases such as diabetes, allergies, circulatory and cardiovascular diseases, arthropathy, and lung diseases.
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 Karolinska Institutet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the [Royal] Caroline Institute) is a medical university in Stockholm, founded in 1810.
A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Karolinska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital.
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 Jonas Nygren: Doktorsavhandling från Karolinska Institutet
Surgical operations are part of the treatment for 44% of all patients admitted to hospital care occupying 24% of all hospital beds.
Furthermore, the length of hospital stay was related to the degree of postoperative insulin resistance (relative change in M-values postoperatively vs hospital stay in postoperative days, r = -0.60, p = 0.018).
In addition, 64% of the vanability in hospital stay was predicted by the type of surgery (hip or abdominal) (p = 0.0001), duration of surgery (p = 0.010) and whether the patients were fasted or carbohydrate fed before surgery (p = 0.004).
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 Congress stockholm - conventions and meetings - stockholm's official convention bureau.
The Karolinska Hospital is an eminent university hospital of international standings.
The hospital was established in 1940, both as a seat of research and teaching.
The hospital has about 1,200 beds and in a single year treats some 55,000 in-patients and 700,000 outpatients.
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 Karolinska Institutet - a medical university
Karolinska Institutet is one of Europe's largest medical universities.
Karolinska Institutet´s mission is to improve the health of mankind through research, education and information.
Karolinska Institutet accounts for 40 percent of all medical research at universities throughout Sweden.
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 Dedijer Media AB
A surgical team at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm reimplanted two of the four nerve roots that had been torn from the man's spinal column and made medical history.
The Karolinska hospital team was in a particularly good position to draw on this accumulated wisdom because of its close relationship with the prestigious Karolinska research institute (Kl), also in Stockholm.
Karolinska Hospital is the only hospital in the world performing operations on epileptic patients using a combination of the magneto-encephalograph (MEG) and the gamma knife.
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Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm uses Activios solutions in clinical study.
Karolinska Hospital uses Activios solutions in clinical exercise based study.
Together with Karolinska Hospital the aim is to form a better environment for medical rehabilitation training.
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 Company News On Call   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Karolinska Hospital's main objectives are to be an international, leading university hospital within medical care, research, development and teaching.
Main areas of the hospital's operation include high quality research in the areas of traumatology, cardiovascular, allergy, pediatrics and healthcare disciplines.
According to the hospital, the patients' needs for safety, high quality care and service always come first.
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 Sectra - Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge
Karolinska University Hospital was created as of January 1, 2004 through the merger of two world-class university hospitals: Karolinska Hospital and Huddinge University Hospital.
At the radiology department, the research is mainly focused on neuroradiology, orthopedics and abdominal x-ray and a large number of scientific articles are published annually.
Footnote: Sectra has also delivered a complete PACS to Karolinska Children's Hospital, and a digital archive for the complete radiology operations at Karolinska Hospital Solna.
www.sectra.se /medical/about/sites/site_karolinska_huddinge.html   (369 words)

  
 Karolinska University Hospital - Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset
Karolinska University Hospital is one of Scandinavia’s premier health facilities.
As a major teaching hospital we educate and train tomorrow’s medical specialists and healthcare professionals.
Our vision is clear – we aim to be recognized worldwide as a premier teaching hospital, leading the way in health science and care.
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 Medical Radiation Physics - Karolinska Institutet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The department is situated at the campus of the Karolinska Hospital in Solna.
When arriving at the Karolinska Hospital, turn left at the main entrance and right just before Radiumhemmet, then walk straight ahead past the emergency room to the end of the lane - see this overview picture of the Karolinska Hospital.
Karolinska Institutet, Medical Radiation Physics, Box 260, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
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 Agfa.com - Karolinska Hospital Detects 7.8 Breast Cancers per Thousand Screened, Asymptomatic Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Screening program at Sweden’s Karolinska Hospital screens women from age 50 to 69; high detection rate attributed to superior-quality mammography, thorough diagnostic techniques and the recognition by Swedish women of the importance of having mammograms.
This is attributed to a combination of superior-quality mammography, thorough diagnostic techniques and the recognition by Swedish women of the importance of having mammograms.
Karolinska has been doing mammograms on referred patients for nearly 25 years.
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 Sectra - Karolinska Children's Hospital
A new pediatric hospital, dedicated to providing children with the best health care possible, opened in 1988 at the Karolinska Hospital, in Stockholm.
The Pediatric Radiology Department at Karolinska is famous all over the world for its expertise.
At Karolinska Children's Hospital, Sectra PACS was designed to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
www.sectra.se /medical/about/sites/site_karolinska.html   (375 words)

  
 Nobel Mini-Symposium on Fetal Medicine - Office of Rare Diseases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Nobel Mini-Symposium an Fetal Medicine held at the Karolinska Institute at the end of May 1998 was the first meeting in the Nordic countries entirely dedicated to this rapidly expanding field of medicine.
A Nobel Forum on Fetal Medicine was held at the Karolinska Institute in Stockhohn, Sweden on May 28–29, 1998.
Jan Lindsten, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Karolinska Institute who gave a brief account of Alfred Nobel's life and the diverse, activities of the Medical Nobel Assembly to promote medical sciences.
rarediseases.info.nih.gov /html/workshops/workshops/fetalmedicine19980528.html   (2636 words)

  
 SASNET: International Health, Karolinska Institutet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Karolinska Institutet (KI) has been involved in research collaboration with South Asia since the 1950’s.
Karolinska Institutet Medical University has been involved in collaboration projects wih Pakistan, and especially with Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi, since the 1950’s.
In July 2005 this was followed up with a decision by KIRT, Karolinska Institutet Research and Training Committee, KIRT, to intensify and extend the already existing collaboration on research and research training with Pakistan, mainly through the Aga Khan University.
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 Women With Primary Antibody Deficiencies Requiring IgG Replacement Therapy: Their Perception of Prenatal Care During ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Susanne Hansen, RN, is the head nurse of the Immunodeficiency Unit and is a PhD student at the Department of Nursing at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ann Gardulf, RN, PhD, is associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Clinical Immunology, Stockholm, Sweden, and is the former head nurse at the Immunodeficiency Unit at the Karolinska University Hospital.
Rolf Gustafson, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and former head of the Immunodeficiency Unit at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
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 Star Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clinical Professor in Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Assistent Professor in Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, August, 1989 - September, 1991.
Present appointment: Director, Division of ultrasound, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, October, 1996-99.
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 Welcome to the Karolinska Center for Transgene Technologies
In 1991 two independent transgenic core facilities were established at the Karolinska Institute, one at the KI South-Campus at Huddinge University Hospital / Ovum, Unit for Embryology and Genetics (formerly MEG) and one at the KI North-Campus at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) named Mouse Camp.
The aim of KCTT is to produce transgenic mice by the pronuclear injection and ES cell techniques for research groups at the Karolinska Institute, the Karolinska Hospital, Huddinge Hospital and research groups at other academic institutions.
KCTT is one of the largest transgenic core facilities in Scandinavia with a yearly number of 60 - 70 constructs for pronucleus injection, around 30 - 40 electroporations of knockout constructs and 40 - 50 injected ko constructs of targeted ES cells.
www.kctt.ki.se   (294 words)

  
 Jesper Lagergren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
M.D. at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm in 1989.
Ph.D. in Surgery at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm in 1999.
My research is conducted both at the Department of Surgical Sciences at Karolinska University Hospital and at the Department of Medical Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
www.mep.ki.se /staff/profiles/lagergren_jesper_en.html   (449 words)

  
 Web Host News | TeleCity Signs Three-Year Hosting Agreement
Under the terms of the agreement, Karolinska has leased its own dedicated suite in the Telecity facility and has purchased a multi-gigabit link between TeleCity?s data center and their own facilities.
"The Karolinska Hospital is one of Europe's most prestigious medical institutions and we are very proud that they have chosen to outsource their IT infrastructure to TeleCity," said Rick Hudson, TeleCity's CEO.
The agreement is the result of a decision made by The Karolinska Hospital to take back management of their IT applications and hardware from third party vendors and replace them with a single IT outsourcing partner.
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 The Prepuce: A Mistake of Nature?
In contrast, when babies are born and cared for in hospital the Escherichia coli strains that colonise the intestine tend to be acquired from the environment.
Further evidence of disturbed intestinal ecology is the anaerobic bacteria of the gut in breastfed babies born and cared for in modern maternity units is often not dominated by bifidobacteria (as in babies born under village conditions) but by other strains.
the colonisation of newborn babies may be too serious a matter to be left to chance in environments--the modern obstetric hospital or the neonatal intensive care unit--which from a biological point of view are unphysiological and possibly hazardous.
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 Additive preventive effect of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in elderly persons -- Christenson et al. 23 (3): 363 ...
hospital admissions for all end-point diagnoses in the cohort
Influenza vaccine effectiveness in preventing hospitalization for pneumonia in the elderly.
Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in reducing hospital admissions during the 1989–90 epidemic.
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 Testing for alcohol problems in the workplace
The remaining two are biological tests: one measures levels of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) in serum, believed capable of identifying lower levels of alcohol consumption; the other measures for serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), elevated levels of which indicate chronic heavy alcohol consumption.
Co-authors of the Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research paper included: Anders Helander and Lena Brandt of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Hospital; Anders Huss of the Occupational Health Service Department at Arlanda Airport; and Sten Rönnberg of the Department of Research at Stockholm University.
The study was funded by The Swedish Council for Social Research, and AFA Sickness Insurance.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-01/ace-tfa010802.php   (919 words)

  
 The Role of Perforin and Programmed Cell Death (Apoptosis) in Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Bengt Fadeel, M.D., Ph.D., Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Jan-Inge Henter, M.D., Ph.D., Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Programmed cell death or apoptosis (a term derived from the Greek word describing the falling off of petals from a flower or leaves from a tree) is a well-choreographed cell-deletion process, which is essential for the maintenance of tissue homeostasis.
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 Star Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Studied medicine at the Karolinska institute in Stockholm.
Assistant head of paediatric radiology at Karolinska 1973-77, head of paediatric radiology, Sachs paediatric hospital Stockholm 1977-83.
Chairman of Diagnostic radiology, Huddinge university hospital 1984-87 and at Karolinska hospital since 1987.
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 CR 4 team
Responsible for DNA procedures and molecular genetic studies conducted at the Karolinska Institute.
Role in IMPROVE: Coordinator and contactperson for the centralised biochemical analyses, logistics etc. there Karolinska Laboratory is involved.
Role in IMPROVE: Contactperson and administration/logistics support for the centralised biochemical analyses there Karolinska Laboratory is involved.
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Director of MR Center, Karolinska Hospital, 1998 01-01 - Thereby coordinatior of several researchprogrammes sharing the same equipment.
Scientific Secretary of the the strategic research planning board of the Karolinska Hospital, 1998- Member of the the governmental study “Technological Foresight; Chapter on information technology”.
Undergraduate and graduate courses, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
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 Abstract - Modern Pathology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Division of Gynecological Oncology, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence: Barbro Skyldberg, Cancer Center Karolinska (CCK), R8:04, Karolinska Hospital, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden; e-mail: Barbro.Skyldberg@impi.ki.se; fax: 46-8-7283688.
DNA replication and centrosome duplication have to be strictly synchronized to guarantee genomic stability.
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 - Karolinska Institutet
Director of the Center for Biotechnology, Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, 1985.
Vice chairman of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet, 2001.
Chairman of the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute, 2002.
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 Epidemiology and Molecular Characterization of Clostridium difficile Strains from Patients with Diarrhea: Low Disease ...
Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, were included in the study.
Hospital-associated CDAD was epidemiologically defined as an episode diagnosed during hospitalization or on admission in patients who had been hospitalized within the previous 2 months.
Acquisition of Clostridium difficile by hospitalized patients: Evidence for colonized new admissions as a source of infection.
jcm.asm.org /cgi/content/full/41/9/4031   (3722 words)

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