BACKGROUND Sickness absence is a growing public health problem in Norway and Denmark, with the highest absence rates being registered in Norway. We compared time trends in sickness absence patterns of municipal employees in the health and care sectors in Norway and Denmark. METHODS Data from 2004 to 2008 were extracted from the personnel registers of the municipalities of Kristiansand, Norway...

artist, Luke Jerram, also raises the issue of how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the links between the artworks’ beauty, what they represent and their impact on humanity. The works are currently on show at the Smithfield Gallery in London and the swine flu virus has been acquired for display by the Wellcome Trust. The q...

AGATA WEYDMANN1*, JANNE E. SØREIDE2, SŁAWEK KWAŚNIEWSKI1, EVA LEU3, STIG FALK-PETERSEN3,4 AND JØRGEN BERGE2,4 1 INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, POWSTANCOW WARSZAWY ST. 55, 81-712 SOPOT, POLAND, THE UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD, N-9171 LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, THE NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE, N-9296 TROMSØ, NORWAY AND FACULTY OF BIOSCIENCES, FISHERIES AND ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY O...

K. Skårdal, N. Rolim, O. C. Eidheim, M. Widerøe, U. Wisløff, P. E. Goa, and M. Thuen Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Medical Imaging, St. Olavs University Hospital, Tro...

Running Title: Dickkopf-3 Regulating miRNAs in Neuroblastoma Authors with affiliations: Bjørn Helge Haug, Jørn Remi Henriksen, Jochen Buechner, Per Kogner, Tommy Martinsson, Trond Flægstad, Baldur Sveinbjørnsson, Christer Einvik Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of North-Norway, 9038 Tromsø, Norway Pediatric Research Group, Department of Clinical Biology, Faculty of Health Science, ...

1 Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway, 2 Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway, 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and The Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 4 Department of Biology and Department of Mathematics and Computer Sc...

Olav Sigurd Kjesbu1,2*, Anders Frugård Opdal3, Knut Korsbrekke4, Jennifer A. Devine1, and Jon Egil Skjæraasen1 Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and Hjort Centre for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, PO Box 1870 Nordnes, Bergen N-5817, Norway Department of Biosciences, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), PO Box 1066 Blindern, Oslo N-0316, Norway Uni Research Computing and Hjort C...

1 Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 2 Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Sahlgrens...

1Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway, 2Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Estaing, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 4Department of Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Lausanne (Centre Hospitalier Un...

The black-legged kittiwake preen gland*an overlooked organ for depuration of fat-soluble contaminants? Silje Aakre Solheim, Kjetil Sagerup, Sandra Huber, Ingvar Byrkjedal & Geir Wing Gabrielsen 1 Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Allégt. 41 NO-5020, Bergen, Norway 2 Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, PO Box 6606, Langnes, NO-9296 Tromsø, Norw...