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THE COPENHAGEN POST | CPHPOST.DK
14 - 20 November 2014
Kids’ cancer rates chopped
Tackling obesity
The original Europeans DNA liquid tests
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It’s good news for the children
Collaboration praised for joint
effort across the Øresund
MAGNUS RASMUSSEN
A
N INCREASE in the
number of children
surviving cancer in Denmark and Sweden – from 50
to 80 percent – has been attributed to a collaborative
effort between Skåne Universitetssjukhus in Lund and
Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen
and (SOHO).
In recognition of the 30year
partnership,
Region
Hovedstaden and Region
Skåne has awarded SOHO the
Øresund Award. However, can-
cer remains the biggest killer
of children, accounting for 22
percent of all deaths.
No link to stress
MEANWHILE, the Danish Cancer Society (DCS) has
quashed the myth that stress
leads to cancer. Previous research that focused on stressful
life-events like divorce or the
loss of a job had been inconclusive.
But a study of the records of
1,300 Danish resistance fighters who survived imprisonment
in German concentration
camps during World War II
revealed no correlation with increased cases of cancer.
No more fast food day-outs
The findings are significant
The DNA on your swag
DESPITE the number of overweight Danish children and
young people more than tripling over the past 30 years,
it has been almost impossible
to get the children to permanently lose weight. Until now.
Jens-Christian Holm, a paediatrician from Holbæk Hospital,
has treated 1,900 children and
young people aged 3-22, of
which 80 percent have lost
weight and retained a normal
weight after treatment. “We recognise, research and treat child
obesity as a chronic illness,”
Holm told Metroxpress. (CW)
BY MAPPING the genome of
the skeleton of a 37,000-yearold man found in Kostinski in
Russia, Danish researchers – in
co-operation with an international research team – have
found that current Scandinavians are the most closely-related
of all Europeans to the first
people to live on the continent.
“Some of the earliest people in
Europe were actually our forefathers,” Eske Willerslev, the head
of the Center for Geogenetics at
the University of Copenhagen
and co-author of the research,
told Videskab.dk. (CW)
A NEW METHOD of marking valuables as a means of
theft protection has been
used in Denmark for the first
time. Special liquid containing DNA that is applied to
valuables will make it much
easier for police to reunite stolen goods with their owners. If
a stolen item is found, police
can compare the marking on
the item with that of an international database. A bottle
of liquid costs 700 kroner. It
dries out when applied to an
item and becomes invisible to
the naked eye. (MR)
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Stone Age footprints
Bream invasion
All hail farty kale
Cry wolf map
Help for eco farmers
ARCHAEOLOGISTS
in
Lolland-Falster have discovered 5,000-year-old footprints
made by Stone Age fishermen.
The team, who made the discovery at an excavation site in
connection with the digging
of the Femern Bælt Tunnel,
claim the prints were preserved by sand left behind by
a flood.
THE
ZOOLOGICAL
Museum has warned that
increasing numbers of the
Mediterranean seawater fish
bream, a tasty addition to any
menu, threaten the existence
of some native fish species.
The bream tends to eat shellfish like crayfish and mussels,
which it crushes with its
strong teeth.
A PROMINENT food historian has hailed farmer’s
favourite curly kale – a leafy
vegetable that smells of farts –
as Denmark’s “most important
historical cabbage variety”. Asmus Gamdrup Jensen told DR
that the “rather gooey” kale
soup will become more commonplace on Danish tables in
the future.
IN COLLABORATION with
the city university, the Museum
of Natural History in Aarhus
has compiled a map showing
the documented movements
of wolves across Jutland during
2014. Consisting of mostly saliva samples and photo graphic
evidence, the map officially
confirms the return of the animal to Denmark.
DAN JØRGENSEN, the
food and agriculture minister,
has earmarked a further 148
million kroner to help farmers struggling due to Russian
sanctions. The funding, which
now stands at 348 million,
helps farmers to build environmentally-friendly
stables
– providing they invest themselves.
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