BACKGROUND Some grass species are richer in coumarin and thus more sweetly scented than others. These have been eagerly sought after in parts of Norway, but the tradition has been weakly documented, both in terms of the species collected, their vernacular names, and uses. METHODS Based on literature data and a substantial body of information collected during my own ethnobotanical field work, ...

BACKGROUND Denmark and Norway are the best countries to study effects of mammography screening, because they are the only countries with stepwise introduction of nationwide mammography screening, enabling comparative effectiveness studies of high quality. Although Denmark and Norway are countries with similar populations and health care systems, reported reductions in breast cancer mortality (i...

In northeast England, perinatal mortality is five times higher and congenital malformation is four times higher for pregnancies in diabetic women than for those in women who do not have diabetes. The same is true in other regions in the United Kingdom, 3 but this is not the case in Norway. Why is the outcome of pregnancy in diabetic women better in Norway? Does Norway use the same definitions a...

In seeking an animal model of age-associated changes in the male reproductive tract, we examined the effects of age on the health and testicular steroidogenic activity of the Brown Norway rat, with comparisons made to the Sprague-Dawley rat. When perfused in vitro under conditions of maximally stimulating luteinizing hormone significant age-associated reductions were seen in testosterone produc...

Although Scandinavian neuroscience has a proud history, its status during the Nazi era has been overlooked. In fact, prominent neuroscientists in German-occupied Denmark and Norway, as well as in neutral Sweden, were directly affected. Mogens Fog, Poul Thygesen (Denmark) and Haakon Sæthre (Norway) were resistance fighters, tortured by the Gestapo: Thygesen was imprisoned in concentration camps ...

1 Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2 FRAM—High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, 3 Arctic Ecology Department, FRAM—High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Tromsø, Norway, 4 Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Te...

Behind a stable and relatively high fertility level in Norway during the 1990s we find increasing differences in the pattern of fertility both in regard to the timing of the first childbirth and number of children born. In this paper, data from the Central Population Register in Norway are used to provide a review of recent fertility trends and discuss the consequences of education level on dif...