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Articles by Halvor Næss
Treatment of stroke
- Halvor Næss
06.06.2017:
While significant progress has been made in the treatment of acute cerebral infarction, this is not the case for treatment of acute cerebral haemorrhage. The treatment of stroke has changed greatly over the past 25 years, partly as a result of the establishment of dedicated stroke units (1). This...
Investigation of suspected chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy
- Jone Furlund Owe,
- Halvor Næss,
- Ivar Otto Gjerde,
- Jørn Eilert Bødtker,
- Ole-Bjørn Tysnes
09.02.2016:
The reported prevalence of CFS/ME is 0.2 – 3 % (7) – (9). In the period from 2008 – 12, 5 809 persons in Norway received the ICD-10 diagnosis G93.3 (10). This figure will include patients with CFS/ME, but it is not known whether all these fulfil the established criteria for this condition. The...
Is there a future for state health monopolies?
- Halvor Næss
11.11.2014:
Sustainable economic creativity and growth are a result of trial and error by independent economic agents, coordinated by the pricing mechanism. In a health monopoly, the absence of independent health entrepreneurs causes costly erroneous decisions to accumulate over time, leading to increasingly...