Kari Tveito

23.03.2020: Severe coronavirus disease is associated with hyperinflammation. The Lancet recently published an article by Puja Mehta and colleagues, which discusses whether secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) may be associated with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (1). Haemophagocytic...

21.10.2019: Disabled people have a right to shape their own lives. They don't get the opportunity to do that in Norway. It was a normal day at work. Researcher Bergljot Gjelsvik was heading to a meeting at the University of Oxford when she fell down a flight of stairs and into 'a different world' (1). The NRK...

25.02.2019: What is the association between a free dinner and deaths from overdose? In 1996, Purdue Pharma, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the United States, launched a new form of oxycodone – OxyContin. The drug released opioid more slowly than other analgesics and should therefore be less...

05.02.2018: This year's influenza has thrown the UK into its worst hospital crisis in decades. Influenza is raging in Europe – this winter as in previous ones. The outbreak here in Norway appears to be somewhat milder than that of last year, and is dominated by type B influenza (1). In the UK, on the other hand...

08.11.2016: The dream of medical breakthroughs must never come at the cost of patient safety. In 2011, news media reported that the first ever transplantation of a synthetic trachea with the aid of stem cell technology had been performed at the Karolinska University Hospital, promising a revolution in...

06.10.2015: The reception that we offer to people in need is crucial Europe is facing the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. So far this year, more than 440 000 refugees and migrants have arrived on our continent from across the Mediterranean (1). Many of them come from Syria, which after four...

17.06.2014: Chronic fatigue syndrome – or myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is another name for this disorder – is a casteless disease. We do not know where it belongs, and few want to engage with it. Kjersti Kirsner is caring for her 37-year-old journalism-trained son for the tenth consecutive year (1). Across...