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Elling Ulvestad er dr.med., avdelingssjef ved Mikrobiologisk avdeling, Haukeland universitetssjukehus og professor ved Klinisk institutt 2, Universitetet i Bergen.
Articles by Elling Ulvestad
Post-vaccination syndrome
- Elling Ulvestad
18.05.2026:
Onset of a prolonged pain and fatigue syndrome following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is likely linked to dysfunctional regulation of the immune system. During the mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign, health authorities in several countries received reports of patients developing persistent...
Delayed harmful effects of vaccination
- Elling Ulvestad
24.02.2021:
Since the mass vaccination against swine flu in 2009, new knowledge has changed the basis for the assessment of injury compensation and for further research on delayed sequelae following vaccination. Vaccination is considered to be a safe medical procedure. Except for reactions around the injection...
Modelling pandemics – why so difficult?
- Elling Ulvestad
20.10.2020:
Mathematical models of pandemic trajectories have epistemological challenges and unresolved usefulness. What repeats itself – for example outbreaks of seasonal flu – can be predicted. Such phenomena can therefore be characterized as knowns. What does not repeat itself, and thus cannot be derived...
Subjectivity and illness
- Elling Ulvestad
19.03.2018:
Despite long-standing research, many diseases remain without adequate pathophysiological explanations or effective treatment. Most likely, the discrepancy between efforts and results can be ascribed to reluctance on the part of biomedicine to recognise subjective experience as a causal factor. The...
The human biology – saturated with experience
- Linn Getz,
- Anna Luise Kirkengen,
- Elling Ulvestad
08.04.2011:
Human beings have unique characteristics that distinguish them from all other known organisms – a capacity for self-reflection, for designing sophisticated symbolic structures, for attaching metaphorical concepts to experiences and for building models and categories with the aid of the imagination...
Heavy burdens and complex disease - an integrated perspective
- Anna Luise Kirkengen,
- Elling Ulvestad
13.12.2007:
Complex chronic diseases require an increasing proportion of society’s resources and represent a growing challenge. Valid biomedical models of aetiology, pathogenesis, treatment and prognosis are inadequate for understanding these diseases. The article discusses current knowledge about the impact of...