On Tuesday, 27 February, the discussion "Breaking down the walls? freedom of expression as a common value" will take place in the city of Daugavpils. It is organised by the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Social Sciences, the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Museum, and the Media Diversity Institute from the UK.
The Summer 2024 graduation ceremony for international medical and dental students will be held on Friday, 5 July, at 11 a.m. in Inspiration Park next to the main campus.
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Andrejs Šitovs will defend his doctoral dissertation on 26 March at 14:00 in an open meeting of the RSU Legal Sciences doctoral committee on Zoom. His dissertation is titled 'Fluoroquinolone Antimicrobial Agent Levofloxacin in Veterinary Medicine and its Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Studies'.
24 February 2024 marks two years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In solidarity with the Ukrainian society and in honour of all those who have died and suffered because of the war, we invite you to join us in a moment of silence this Friday, 23 February, at 10.00.
Appendicitis in children poses a challenge throughout the course of the illness – from diagnosis to treatment.
It is important to differentiate between acute uncomplicated appendicitis and complicated appendicitis at the start of treatment, because acute uncomplicated appendicitis is treated non-surgically or conservatively, whereas complicated appendicitis requires emergency surgical treatment due to delayed diagnostic processes. In Latvia, acute complicated appendicitis accounts for more than 35% of all cases of appendicitis.
To enable students from Riga Technical University (RTU) and Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) to further develop a prototype of an air purification and disinfection robot, the two universities have signed an agreement to collaborate on the implementation of the Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) course.
We would like to invite our students to the Erasmus+ programme seminar on student mobility in the 2024/2025 academic year.
As the new semester begins, all students are welcome to participate in our speed friending event - a fun evening filled with various interactive games and activities at the RSU Student House!
Low therapeutic efficacy and resistance to conventional drugs remain the major obstacles in modern chemotherapy. Scientists around the world are therefore constantly searching for new drugs with different modes of action that, alone or in combination with other drugs, can help cancer patients. In recent years, selenium-containing compounds have been extensively studied as anticancer agents due to the characteristic properties of selenium.
An open-access book on loneliness and related factors has been published this month. The chapter that was written by SHARE Latvia researchers and their collaborators explores loneliness among people aged 67 and over in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden.
