Vinjar Fønnebø

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Vinjar Fønnebø er dr. med., leder av Ekspertgruppen for medisinske kvalitetsregistre og tidligere professor og instituttleder ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet.

Articles by Vinjar Fønnebø

Exceptional courses of disease related to the use of complementary and alternative medicine?

Arne Johan Norheim,
Vinjar Fønnebø,
Anita Salamonsen

05.04.2016: The course of serious disease is difficult to predict, even for experienced clinicians. In the encounter with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), patients occasionally experience an inexplicable change. Some find that they undergo an unexpected positive development, whereas others...

Mammography screening should be discontinued

Vinjar Fønnebø

17.06.2014: The promising results of 30-year-old randomised studies of the efficacy of mammography screening cannot be confirmed by actual breast cancer mortality figures after decades of screening in several Western populations. When the publicly organised mammography screening programme was piloted in Norway...