As newly graduated medical doctors, Jens Sundbøll and Morten Schmidt from Health decided that their exam notes ought to be put to good use. So they developed the app and bestseller 'Intern Medicin’ (‘Internal Medicine' in English) and founded a…

In its annual grants, the Independent Research Fund Denmark: Medical and Health Sciences has granted a total of approx. DKK 23 million to eleven original and potentially groundbreaking research projects at Health.

Lone Sund from Aarhus University has received DKK 590,000 from the Riisfort Foundation to analyse the hereditary material (DNA) from cancer of the placenta in blood tests. In a pilot project, Lone Sund’s research group has already shown that it is…

Medical specialist and PhD Vivi Schlünssen is newly appointed professor of occupational and environmental medicine epidemiology at Aarhus University. She carries out research into how and why the environment affects human health and disease – for…

The world's largest multi-centre study of asthma has identified five new DNA variants related to asthma, that all point towards changes in the immune system. The study has been published in Nature Genetics and according to one of the study’s authors,…