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A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern Sweden. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have collected samples every year from hundreds of blue tits in a single population at a local breeding area outside Lund. Th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/warmer-nordic-springs-double-incidence-avian-malaria - 2025-11-08

Pregnancies do not weaken a woman’s skeleton. Breastfeeding, however, can reduce bone density considerably. These are findings from a research report produced at Lund University in Sweden. But breastfeeding women need not worry. “There is a dip, but the body is absolutely fantastic at making up the loss,” says Kristina Åkesson, professor of orthopedics. Breastfeeding and pregnancy both require lar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-how-breastfeeding-affects-skeleton-could-boost-development-drugs-against-osteoporosis - 2025-11-08

Feeling unmotivated to carve another jack-o’-lantern out of a slimy pumpkin? As luck would have it, at least you don’t have to struggle with a rock-hard turnip. The pumpkin’s status as the main symbol of Halloween is actually somewhat of an historical coincidence. Ethnologist Katarzyna Herd explains why. Two-hundred tonnes. According to SVT Nyheter, this is how much pumpkin was transported from Le

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/root-vegetable-could-have-replaced-halloween-pumpkins - 2025-11-08

Ten years have passed since the countries of the world signed the Paris Agreement. Political scientist Fariborz Zelli sums up the surprises – both positive and negative – in climate policy over the past ten years and also looks ahead. What has been the biggest success of the Paris Agreement so far?I would say the biggest success is that the UN has succeeded in keeping its central role in global cl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/decade-paris-agreement-brings-progress-and-setbacks - 2025-11-08

Current knowledge of food safety is based on traditional foods that include animal products. Corresponding knowledge of plant-based foods lags behind. “There is a naive belief that plant-based food is safer than animal-based food. Unfortunately, this is not the case,” says Jenny Schelin, a researcher on food safety at Lund University in Sweden. “Plant-based foods are just as vulnerable to the same

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researcher-challenges-myth-plant-based-food-safer - 2025-11-08

Archaeologist Peter Jordan has together with colleagues from the UK and the US received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant. The research aims to shed new light on the demography of hunter-gatherer societies, potentially shifting our understanding of human history over the past 10,000 years entirely. The project FORAGER will examine why certain hunter-gatherer societies experienced both population g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-archaeologist-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2025-11-08

The European Commission has listed the 50 organisations that receive the most money from the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development. Lund University is in 23rd place and is the only full-scale Swedish university to make the list. Lund University has received a total of EUR 50 million for 110 different research projects. It is primarily research within engineering, medicine a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-successful-obtaining-eu-funding - 2025-11-08

Published 26 September 2022 Melkamu Merid Mengesha is an Assistant Professor at Arba Minch University in Ethiopia. He is also a prospective doctoral student in the research group Child and Family Health, with supervisors Cecilia Follin, Inger Kristensson Hallström and Degu Jerene. In August he visited the research group at the Department of Health Sciences in Lund. What is your academic background

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/melkamu-merid-mengesha-prospective-doctoral-student - 2024-06-25

Published 10 November 2022 Inger Kristensson Hallström. Inger Kristensson Hallström, Professor of Paediatric Nursing and head of the Child and Family Health research group, has shared her expertise at an international congress on child and adolescent health. The congress was held on 27-28 October at the University of Minho in Portugal and brought together researchers, academics, nurses, health pro

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/sharing-her-expertise-child-and-adolescent-health - 2024-06-25

Published 1 December 2022 Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Assistant Professor at Arba Minch University in Ethiopia Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Assistant Professor at Arba Minch University in Ethiopia, is a prospective doctoral student in the research group Child and Family Health. On November 10, his article on Antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among children living with HIV in Ethiopia, was published. You

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/antiretroviral-therapy-non-adherence-among-children-living-hiv-ethiopia - 2024-06-25

Published 22 August 2022 New article: Access to health care perceived by parents caring for their child at home supported by eHealth – a directed approach introducing aperture Abstract Background In recent years a variety of eHealth solutions has been introduced to enhance efficiency and to empower patients, leading to a more accessible and equitable health care system. Within pediatric care eHeal

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/good-access-ehealth-supported-health-care-parents-experiences - 2024-06-25

Published 6 September 2022 New article: eHealth literacy and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of parents of children needing paediatric surgery in Sweden. Abstract Aim The aim of the study was to describe different eHealth literacy domains among parents of children needing paediatric surgery in Sweden, and the correlation between these eHealth literacy domains and parents' socioeconom

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/adequate-ehealth-literacy-among-parents-children-needing-paediatric-surgery-sweden - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 21 December 2023 Melkamu Merid Mengesha at the Faculty of Medicine in Lund. Introduction to Research Methodology was on the agenda when doctoral student Melkamu Merid Mengesha, from Arba Minch in Ethiopia, visited the research group Child and Family Health in Lund, Sweden. Tell us about your visit– I took my first course, 

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/visiting-research-group-grateful-support-and-guidance - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 19 December 2019 On 28-29 November, the research group Child and Family Health organized a scientific symposium with focus on child-centered care and e-health. The symposium marked the end of the 6-year research program LUC3 and the start of the new research program eChildHealth. Since 2013, research has been conducted in

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/symposium-focus-child - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 16 January 2020 Angela Afua Quaye, Inger Kristensson Hallström Doctoral student Angela Afua Quaye and supervisor Inger Kristensson Hallström from the research group Child and Family Health have received 1 million SEK from Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund, for research on child-centered care. The research project has its backg

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/new-funds-research-child-centered-care - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 29 January 2020 Charlotte Castor Charlotte Castor is a doctor of medical science at Lund University and part of the research group Child and Family Health. Since her dissertation in September 2019, her research on Home Care Services for Sick Children has been highlighted in several magazines. Advanced medical home care, AS

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/research-home-care-services-sick-children-highlighted-several-magazines - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 7 February 2020 Inger Kristensson Hallström Inger Kristensson Hallström, professor and head of research for the research group Child and Family Health, has shared her views on children's rights in health care, in an article in the Swedish magazine Vårdfokus. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, or UNCR

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/childrens-rights-health-care - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 21 February 2020 Gudrún Kristjánsdóttir is a professor of pediatric nursing at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. During three months in the spring of 2020, she is also a visiting professor in the research group Child and Family Health, at Lund University. Gudrún Kristjánsdóttir has for many years collaborated with th

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/gudrun-kristjansdottir-visiting-professor - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 10 March 2020 In the research project, the nurse uses playful illustrations, to involve the child in the health dialog about living habits and overweight. Illustration: Carin Carlsson. In an ongoing project from the research group Child and Family Health, researchers evaluates a model of Child-Centered Health Dialog (CCHD)

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/child-centered-health-dialog - 2024-06-25

By jon [dot] ulvsgard [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Jon Ulvsgärd) - published 26 March 2020 Charlotte Castor at the 6th National Conference in Palliative Care in Östersund. Charlotte Castor, doctor of medical science in the research group Child and Family Health, shared her research at the 6th National Conference in Palliative Care in Östersund. During three intense days, March 10-12, Charlotte Cast

https://www.childfamilyhealth.lu.se/article/conference-palliative-care - 2024-06-25