A recent article in the Swedish newspaper Mora Tidning (5 August 2024) has highlighted the positive experiences of three medical students from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) who spent their summer working at Mora Hospital in central Sweden. The students, Daniel Halvarsson, Vera Gustavsson, and Oskar Pettersson, are enrolled in RSU's internationally recognised medical programme and have supplemented their studies with hands-on experience by working as nursing assistants in the Swedish hospital's surgical department.

Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Orientation Week, organised by the University’s International Department, is set to begin on Tuesday, 20 August.

The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Institute of Public Health has conducted a study with the aim of finding out professionals’ assessments and recommendations to reduce the use of smoked and smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes in Latvia: “Situation of Smoked and Smokeless Tobacco Products in Latvia and Recommendations to Promote Public Health”.

Writers: Ludmila Voložonoka, RSU lead researcher, molecular geneticist,
Dace Rezeberga, RSU professor, gynaecologist, chief obstetrician at Riga Maternity Hospital, chief specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology at RAKUS,
Anna Miskova, RSU associate professor, Dr. med., gynaecologist, specialist in obstetrics at Riga Maternity Hospital

Doctors have long been uncertain about how to help women with premature cervical shortening, which puts them at risk of premature birth or losing the baby.

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed.