Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

City living can drive people crazy, says Swedish study

Health, Miscellaneous, Swedish Life: September 13th, 2010 by VT

A study conducted by a Welsh researcher of more than 200,000 Swedes in their late 20s and mid-30s suggests increased social fragmentation in large cities may partially explain why psychotic disorders are more common in urban areas, researchers have suggested, the findings, published on Tuesday, show.

The magic of Google Analytics

Business, Health, Marketing, Media, Miscellaneous, Music, Newsbites, Offbeat, Society, Swedish Life, Technology: July 23rd, 2010 by VT

Sometimes older articles on The Local find new life weeks, months or even years after they are initially published when they are picked up by external sites.

Recent examples of this are a sudden spike in traffic of 8,000 readers on June 16th to Swedish parents keep 2-year-old’s gender secret, initially published nearly a year earlier on June 23rd, thanks to a pickup on i am bored.

More recently, on July 8th, Cracked.com cited our article Black Cobra gang steals selection of small cakes from March in a roundup of 5 bizarre real-life gangs, sending 4,700 readers our way to read about their exploits that merited the mention (they came in 3rd).

This week alone, we’ve seen a significant spike on Artists lose out as fans stop burning CDs and Cerebral palsy fraudster gets 3 years in jail thanks to Fark and Swedish women vote to keep their tops on thanks to reddit.

How can we narrow down the dates, numbers and sources of the traffic coming to our site? Google Analytics. We could spend hours tooling around to see where people are coming from to our site, but we would never get any work done.

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Foreign students don bras for cancer awareness

Health: October 27th, 2008 by PO

Inspired by an article in The Local, a group of foreign students in Linköping recently met up for a photo shoot to raise awareness about breast cancer. Shakila Rainbow-Rossi explains:

To support this October’s Rosabandet Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, run by the Swedish charity Cancerfonden, myself and six other students from LIU:s College Course in Swedish decided to create a little publicity by posing for a photo-shoot wearing bras over our everyday wear.

Impotence indicates risk of heart disease – Study

Health: June 11th, 2007 by PO

A physician from Lund University has delved into the correlation between impotence and heart disease:

In a dissertation from Lund University in Sweden, the physician Rasmus Borgquist has managed to show that this reasoning is correct.

“One of our studies shows that otherwise healthy men with impotence show signs of early atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries of the heart. In another study we saw that men with impotence evince a higher incidence of high blood pressure, high blood fat, abdominal fat, and other traditional risk factors for heart disease,” he says.