Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek hopes his latest brainchild, the Neko Body Scan, will revolutionise healthcare healthcare Article 937 words 20 votes
Swedish government says excessive screen time is causing a severe health crisis for youth – new legislation in the works to require schools to ban access to digital devices ~health.mental Article 1212 words 14 votes
Epilepsy drug Sulthiame could help people with sleep apnea get a good night's rest, Swedish study finds medicine Article 499 words 11 votes
Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to forty-five minutes awarded Longitude prize – could herald sea change in antibiotic use by identifying correct treatments medicine Article 764 words 26 votes
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted seven million lab-grown brain cells into a patient to treat Parkinson's disease medicine Article 753 words 23 votes
Fifty years on, Swedish psychiatrists are now calling the infamous Stockholm Syndrome a 'constructed concept' used to explain away the failures of the State ~health.mental Article 575 words 27 votes
AI has helped radiologists detect 20% more cases of breast cancer during screenings, new Swedish study finds medicine healthcare Article 926 words 25 votes
Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants medicine Article 542 words 7 votes
Sweden is on course to become one of the world's first smoke-free countries, defined as less than 5% of the adult population smoking Link 15 votes
European Commission contacted Swedish authorities after it emerged they were planning to deport a 74-year-old British woman with severe Alzheimers Article 709 words 4 votes
HPV self-sampling in Sweden leading to faster elimination of cervical cancer medicine healthcare Article 889 words 4 votes
Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down healthcare Article 965 words 10 votes
Swedish court has given disgraced Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a suspended sentence for causing bodily harm during an experimental stem-cell windpipe transplant medicine Article 58 words 3 votes
Norwegian skier fails in bid to slalom 40km around Covid quarantine rules – bad weather foils attempt to cross over mountains from Sweden Article 252 words 5 votes
Matthew Syed looks at how the behaviour of hostages at a 1973 bank robbery gave rise to a concept known as Stockholm syndrome ~health.mental Article 5 votes
Sweden has the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in the European Union, with eighty-one cases per one million citizens – nearly four times higher than the EU average Link 11 votes
Sweden has revealed that despite adopting more relaxed measures to control coronavirus, by late April only 7.3% of people in Stockholm had developed the antibodies needed to fight the disease Article 18 votes
‘Closing borders is ridiculous’: The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy Article 1233 words 10 votes
A disaster waiting to happen or a bold, evidence-based response? In Sweden, it depends who you ask Article 1057 words 6 votes
Sweden counts coronavirus deaths in care homes but many countries do not – medical officials said a third of deaths recorded last week came from nursing home residents Link 5 votes
Swedish PM Stefan Löfven warned over 'Russian roulette-style' Covid-19 strategy – health experts say attempt to build herd immunity is a 'mad experiment with 10m people' Article 1181 words 6 votes
Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR healthcare Article 448 words 10 votes
Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths Link 5 votes
A patient admitted to hospital in Sweden with a possible case of the Ebola virus has tested negative Article 127 words, published Oct 8 2019 3 votes
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan – Afghan clinics reopening days after Taliban forced closure healthcare Article 362 words, published Jul 19 2019 4 votes
Shortages of medicines in Sweden are an increasing problem – other countries in Europe are also being affected healthcare Link 4 votes