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Does local food increase cancer risk in glassworks areas?

There is no clear link between cancer incidence and locally produced food from an area with a history of glass manufacture with contaminated soil, according to a new study from, among others, Linköping University.

More operations are scheduled if doctor is well rested

Researchers have investigated how orthopaedic surgeons make decisions regarding surgery. The results show that a patient who meets the surgeon at the end of his or her shift is less likely to be scheduled for surgery.

Welcome indoors, solar cells

Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed organic solar cells optimised to convert ambient indoor light to electricity. The power they produce is low, but enough to feed the millions of products that the internet of things will bring online.
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Linköping University, LiU, conducts world-leading, boundary-crossing research in fields that include materials science, IT and hearing. In the same spirit, the university offers many innovative educational programmes, frequently with a clear professional focus and leading to qualification as, for example, doctors, teachers, economists and engineers.
LiU was granted university status in 1975 and today has 32,000 students and 4,000 employees. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

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