﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:50:51 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Would you like to continue receiving press releases from Karolinska Institutet?</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/would-you-like-to-continue-receiving-press-releases-from-karolinska-institutet-,c4030622</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4890334</guid><description><![CDATA[On 1 September 2024, Karolinska Institutet will move its press room to Via TT and you will need to register again if you want to continue following us.
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“I am proud to be one of the exceptional people who have received this award, and would like to take this opportunity to thank my many dedicated colleagues in medical education with whom I have worked over the past 24 years. Without them, I wouldn't have gotten this]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:28:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Perineal cut reduces the risk of serious birth injury</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/perineal-cut-reduces-the-risk-of-serious-birth-injury,c4003089</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4852201</guid><description><![CDATA[In first-time mothers requiring vacuum-assisted delivery, a lateral episiotomy (angled cut) in the tissue between the vaginal and anal opening more than halves the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury, a severe form of perineal trauma between the vulva and anus. This according to a randomised clinical study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm’s Danderyd Hospital, the results of which are published in The BMJ.
Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI), which involves the anal sphincter muscles, can lead to anal incontinence with difficulties retaining gas and faeces. It]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New doping test can reveal more cheating female athletes</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-doping-test-can-reveal-more-cheating-female-athletes,c3999113</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4845904</guid><description><![CDATA[Roughly three times as many male athletes are banned for doping as female. A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that one possible reason for this is that the doping tests in use fail to take account of women’s varying hormone profile. Instead, an alternative is proposed that includes a blood test and a limit value that allows doping tests for both elite athletes and casual sportspersons.
Despite the debate of recent years on testosterone levels in elite female athletes, there are only a handful of scientific studies on the topic. However, Jona Elings Knutsson’s doctoral]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New test detects more cases of cervical cancer</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-test-detects-more-cases-of-cervical-cancer,c3994773</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4840220</guid><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Innsbruck in Austria have developed a simpler and more effective screening method for cervical cancer than the method used today. A comprehensive study published in Nature Medicine shows that the test detects significantly more cancers and precancerous stages.
Cervical cancer screening is essential for early detection and prevention. Most countries have a very extensive screening program that starts with testing for different variants of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer. In the case of an HPV-]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New drug candidate reverses obesity in mice</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-drug-candidate-reverses-obesity-in-mice,c3970699</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4808578</guid><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Karolinska Institutet may have found a new way to treat obesity and related disorders by targeting the cells’ powerhouses, the mitochondria. A study published in Nature Metabolism shows that a specific class of drugs that block mitochondrial function can reverse diet-induced obesity, fatty liver and diabetes in mice.
Mitochondria are essential for human health, as they process the nutrients in the food we eat and harvest the energy needed for various processes in the cell. They are central regulators of metabolism, which is very dynamic and can be rerouted and reprogrammed]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unnecessary use of beta-blockers after a heart attack</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/unnecessary-use-of-beta-blockers-after-a-heart-attack,c3956640</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4789905</guid><description><![CDATA[Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack are treated with beta-blockers unnecessarily. This is according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

"I am convinced that this will influence future practice", says Tomas Jernberg, Professor at Karolinska Institutet and lead researcher of the study.
Today, when patients are discharged from hospitals after an acute heart attack, they are regularly treated with beta-blocker drugs such as metoprolol and bisoprolol. Now new research shows that about half of them do not benefit from the treatment]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Women with obesity do not need to gain weight during pregnancy, new study suggests</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/women-with-obesity-do-not-need-to-gain-weight-during-pregnancy--new-study-suggests,c3954538</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4785902</guid><description><![CDATA[The guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy in obese women have long been questioned. New research from Karolinska Institutet supports the idea of lowering or removing the current recommendation of a weight gain of at least 5 kg. The results are published in The Lancet.
International guidelines from the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) state that women with obesity should gain a total of 5 to 9 kg during pregnancy, compared to 11.5 to 16 kg for normal-weight women. The guidelines have long been questioned, but there has been no evidence to warrant a re-examination. 

A new study from]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New discovery reveals how the egg controls sperm entry</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-discovery-reveals-how-the-egg-controls-sperm-entry,c3945854</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4774403</guid><description><![CDATA[After the egg has been fertilized by a sperm, the surrounding egg coat tightens, mechanically preventing the entry of additional sperm and the ensuing death of the embryo. This is according to a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and published in the journal Cell. The work also explains how mutations in egg coat proteins can cause female infertility and may eventually lead to new contraceptive methods.
Fertilization in mammals begins when a sperm attaches to the egg coat, a filamentous extracellular envelope that sperm must penetrate in order to fuse with the egg. Now an]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ADHD medication linked to reduced mortality</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/adhd-medication-linked-to-reduced-mortality,c3944377</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4772255</guid><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have shown a link between use of medication for ADHD and a reduced risk of premature death. The risk of death due to unnatural causes, such as accidents and overdoses, can be reduced by a quarter, according to the new study published in JAMA.
Previous research has shown that people diagnosed with ADHD have an increased risk of premature death. However, it is not clear whether medications for ADHD affect this risk.

A registry study, published in JAMA, followed nearly 150,000 Swedes aged 6-64, who were diagnosed with ADHD between 2007 and 2018. The]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ashley Moffett and Peter Thelin made honorary doctors at Karolinska Institutet</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/ashley-moffett-and-peter-thelin-made-honorary-doctors-at-karolinska-institutet,c3939244</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4764413</guid><description><![CDATA[Karolinska Institutet has decided to award honorary doctorates to Ashley Moffett, professor emerita at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Peter Thelin, chair of the Swedish Brain Fund, for their important contributions to science and KI, respectively. The formal ceremony will take place at the conferment ceremony in Stockholm City Hall on 26 April.
Professor Ashley Moffet is awarded KI’s honorary doctorate for a lifetime of research that has made groundbreaking discoveries concerning the biological mechanisms behind serious conditions associated with pregnancy. These include preeclampsia,]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:38:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fibroblasts in the penis are more important for erectile function than previously thought</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/fibroblasts-in-the-penis-are-more-important-for-erectile-function-than-previously-thought,c3924498</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4746216</guid><description><![CDATA[Regular erections could be important for maintaining erectile function, according to a new study on mice published in Science by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. “We discovered that an increased frequency of erections leads to more fibroblasts that enable erection and vice versa, that a decreased frequency results in fewer of these cells,” says principal investigator Christian Göritz.
In a new study on mice, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden show that connective tissue cells called fibroblasts have a previously unknown and very important function in]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Covid vaccine for pregnant women safe for newborn infants</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/covid-vaccine-for-pregnant-women-safe-for-newborn-infants,c3921010</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4743610</guid><description><![CDATA[No increased risks for babies, and for some serious neonatal complications lower risks. This is the result of the largest study to date on the safety of newborn babies whose mothers were vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy. The study is a collaboration between Swedish and Norwegian researchers and is published in the journal JAMA.
COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy was not associated with any increased risks in newborn infants. On the contrary, the study of nearly 200,000 newborns in Sweden and Norway showed that babies born by women who chose to be vaccinated were less likely to]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Perinatal depression linked to increased risk of death</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/perinatal-depression-linked-to-increased-risk-of-death,c3907187</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4723002</guid><description><![CDATA[Women who suffer depression during or after pregnancy have a higher risk of death by both natural and unnatural causes, a new study of childbirth in Sweden published in The BMJ reports. The increased risk peaks in the month after diagnosis but remains elevated for as long as 18 years afterwards.
Women who develop perinatal depression, which is to say depression during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, are generally twice as likely to die of natural or, as in most cases, unnatural causes. They are six times more likely to commit suicide than women without this form of depression. The]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New COVID vaccine induces good antibody response to mutated viral variants</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-covid-vaccine-induces-good-antibody-response-to-mutated-viral-variants,c3905295</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4720115</guid><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital in Sweden have followed recipients of the new updated COVID-19 vaccine and analysed the antibody response to different SARS-CoV-2 variants. The results published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases show a surprisingly strong response to the now dominant and highly mutated Omicron variants.
The ongoing COMMUNITY study (https://ki.se/en/kids/community), which was launched in the spring of 2020 with the regular testing of 2,149 members of the Danderyd Hospital staff, has recently published the results of this autumn’s leg of the study.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New method is better able to map immune response and paves way for new treatments</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-method-is-better-able-to-map-immune-response-and-paves-way-for-new-treatments,c3890173</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4699067</guid><description><![CDATA[A new method, developed at Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab in Sweden, can identify unique immune cell receptors and their location in tissue, a study published in the journal Science reports. The researchers predict that the method will improve the ability to identify which immune cells contribute to disease processes and open up opportunities to develop novel therapies for numerous diseases.
Immune cells such as T and B cells are central to the body’s defence against both infections and tumours. Both types of immune cells express unique receptors that]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cell atlases of the human brain presented in Science</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/cell-atlases-of-the-human-brain-presented-in-science,c3852960</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4648837</guid><description><![CDATA[In two parallel projects, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been involved in creating the most comprehensive atlases of human brain cells to date. The two studies, which are published in Science, provide clues on different brain diseases and give hope for medical advancements in the future, such as new cancer drugs.
Knowing what cells constitute the healthy brain, where different cell types are located and how the brain develops from the embryo stage is fundamental to the ability to compare and better understand how diseases arise. There are at present advanced atlases of the mouse]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>No increase in cancer risk for most patients with reflux disease</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/no-increase-in-cancer-risk-for-most-patients-with-reflux-disease,c3834200</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4626150</guid><description><![CDATA[Reflux disease manifests as acid regurgitation and heartburn and is a known risk factor for oesophageal cancer. However, a new study published in The BMJ by researchers at Karolinska Institutet now reports that the majority of patients do not have a higher risk of cancer. A large-scale study from three Nordic countries shows that the cancer risk is only elevated in patients whom gastroscopy reveals to have changes in the oesophageal mucosa.
“This is a gratifying result since reflux disease is a very common condition and most patients are found to have a completely normal mucus membrane on]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Risk of brain haemorrhage appears transmissible via blood transfusion</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/risk-of-brain-haemorrhage-appears-transmissible-via-blood-transfusion,c3833821</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4625490</guid><description><![CDATA[A major study published in JAMA led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet suggests that a possible cause of spontaneous brain haemorrhage could be transmitted via blood transfusion. At the same time, it is very unlikely that anyone should suffer a brain haemorrhage after receiving donated blood.
A common cause of spontaneous, recurring brain haemorrhages is the vascular disease cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), in which proteins accumulate along the tiny blood vessels of the brain. Several studies have shown that CAA can be transferred from one individual to another through neurosurgery]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Antioxidants stimulate blood flow in tumours</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/antioxidants-stimulate-blood-flow-in-tumours,c3827642</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4617375</guid><description><![CDATA[Vitamin C and other antioxidants stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in lung cancer tumours, a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation shows. The discovery corroborates the idea that dietary supplements containing antioxidants can accelerate tumour growth and metastasis.
“We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumours to form new blood vessels, which is surprising, since it was previously thought that antioxidants have a protective effect,” says study leader Martin Bergö, professor at the Department of]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New method reveals bacterial reaction to antibiotics in five minutes</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-method-reveals-bacterial-reaction-to-antibiotics-in-five-minutes,c3772423</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4545194</guid><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a molecular method able to detect whether or not bacteria respond to antibiotics within minutes. The findings are presented in the journal Nature Microbiology and the researchers now hope to develop a simple test for doctors to use.
“We are confident and hope that this can be one of many tools that doctors need to tackle antibiotic resistance, which is a serious and growing problem,” says principal investigator Vicent Pelechano, associate professor at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New study explains how a common virus can cause multiple sclerosis</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/new-study-explains-how-a-common-virus-can-cause-multiple-sclerosis,c3771399</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4543666</guid><description><![CDATA[Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found further evidence for how the Epstein-Barr virus can trigger multiple sclerosis or drive disease progression. A study published in Science Advances shows that some individuals have antibodies against the virus that mistakenly attack a protein in the brain and spinal cord.
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects most people early in life and then remains in the body, usually without causing symptoms. The link between EBV and the neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS) was discovered many years ago and has puzzled researchers ever]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sugar molecule in blood can predict Alzheimer’s disease</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/sugar-molecule-in-blood-can-predict-alzheimer-s-disease,c3749148</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4513274</guid><description><![CDATA[Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease requires reliable and cost-effective screening methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now discovered that a type of sugar molecule in blood is associated with the level of tau, a protein that plays a critical role in the development of severe dementia. The study, which is published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, can pave the way for a simple screening procedure able to predict onset ten years in advance.
“The role of glycans, structures made up of sugar molecules, is a relatively unexplored field in dementia research,”]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Regional ECT, lithium, and clozapine use linked to lower suicide rates in male adolescents</title><link>https://news.cision.com/karolinska-institutet/r/regional-ect--lithium--and-clozapine-use-linked-to-lower-suicide-rates-in-male-adolescents,c3732670</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision4490660</guid><description><![CDATA[A new study from Karolinska Institutet suggests that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), lithium, and clozapine may reduce suicide rates in adolescent men with severe mental illness, consistent with previous findings in adults. The study, published in Nature Communications, compared treatment and suicide rates across different regions in Sweden.
Annually, there are 800,000 suicide deaths worldwide. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults, with up to 90 percent of those affected having a serious psychiatric illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, or]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>