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Royal first birthday for Princess Estelle

Society: 23 Feb 13
Sweden's youngest princess and heir to the throne celebrated her first birthday on Saturday, but the party will be a private affair. READ »

Hospital cancels ops due to flu patient spike

Science & Technology: 6 Feb 13
A surge of patients suffering from infectious diseases has forced Karolinska University Hospital near Stockholm to postpone planned operations due to a lack of available nurses and beds. READ »

Cleaning lady steals train and crashes into house

National: 15 Jan 13
Officials remain baffled as to why a cleaning lady commandeered a train in the upscale Stockholm suburb of Saltsjöbaden early Tuesday morning and crashed it into a house, where it remains while crews work out how to safely remove the wreckage. READ »

Elderly woman's maggot-infested leg amputated

Society: 30 Dec 12
A Stockholm nursing home has been accused of severe neglect after a 95-year-old resident was rushed to hospital with a maggot-infested wound. READ »

Woman charged for sex with human skeleton

National: 20 Nov 12
A woman in western Sweden who was arrested after police found skeletons in her apartment has now been charged for using the bones as sex toys, a hobby she claimed was motivated by an interest in history. READ »

Hotline offers help to Sweden's sex addicts

Science & Technology: 2 Nov 12
Swedes who are unable to control their sexual urges have flooded a new hotline which experts say has likely enabled a number of paedophiles get help with their conditions. READ »

Woman admits to killing her infant with Koran

Society: 31 Oct 12
A woman who confessed to suffocating her 5-month-old child with the family's copy of the Koran is on trial in western Sweden, with her defense team arguing she had a psychotic breakdown, possibly due to postpartum depression. READ »

Mother suspected of killing own infant

National: 30 Aug 12
The mother of a two-month old infant who was found dead in a home near Nyköping in eastern Sweden on Thursday is suspected of killing her own child before injuring herself. READ »

Stockholm archipelago stabbing injures three

National: 22 Aug 12
Three people were stabbed after a local man went berserk with a knife in a small community in the Stockholm archipelago on Wednesday. READ »

Shooting leaves teen girl 'critically injured'

National: 7 Aug 12
The condition of the 17-year-old girl who was shot in a northern Stockholm apartment on Monday afternoon is critical, and police have arrested the 18-year-old gunman, still in his underwear, on suspicion of attempted murder. READ »

Man held for shooting woman in Stockholm

National: 6 Aug 12
A man has been arrested and a woman has been taken to hospital after a shooting in Sollentuna, north of Stockholm, on Monday afternoon. READ »

Mum reports midwife for computer work mid-birth

National: 5 Jun 12
A woman has reported a midwife to the National Board of Health and Welfare after she was forced to go into childbirth on her feet while the nurse sat at a nearby table on the computer. READ »

Swedish start-ups booming: investor

Business & Money: 23 Apr 12
A record number of investors flocked to the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship Start-Up Day and have indicated that Sweden will be a hub for new start-ups in the wake of Spotify and Skype’s global success. READ »

Undertakers 'sickened' by hospital’s corpse storage

Science & Technology: 7 Mar 12
A Swedish hospital has come under fire after it was reported that staff members were storing corpses “head-to-toe”, leaving the undertakers who made the discovery shocked and sickened. READ »

First pic of new Swedish princess released

National: 23 Feb 12
The first picture of Sweden's newest princess has been released, with the Royal Court publishing the image on its official Facebook page. READ »

Victoria to hospital early Thursday morning

Science & Technology: 23 Feb 12
Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria was admitted to the maternity ward at Karolinska University Hospital shortly before 1am on Thursday morning. READ »

Stockholm ranked among world's top student cities

Education: 15 Feb 12
Stockholm beat out Helsinki and Copenhagen, as well as several other university towns in northern Europe in a ranking of the “Best Student Cities in the World” published this week. READ »

Mats Sundin in massive kid's health research gift

Business & Money: 10 Feb 12
Mats Sundin, the ex-Swedish hockey great, has made a donation supporting research into children's health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the University of Toronto. READ »

Female guard beaten in new prison attack

National: 23 Nov 11
A 65-year-old female guard was badly beaten by a prisoner at a south Stockholm detention centre on Wednesday morning. READ »

Hospitals 'clueless' about drug side effects

Science & Technology: 21 Nov 11
Despite tens of thousands of patients coming down with diseases caused by medications they're taking, awareness of the problem remains low at Sweden's emergency hospitals, according to a recent report. READ »

Sweden ups cash offer to attract egg donors

Science & Technology: 25 Oct 11
Several Swedish county councils are planning to pay three times as much as the current rate in order to entice more women to become egg donors, hoping to meet increasing demand. READ »

Doc acquitted of having caused baby's death

National: 21 Oct 11
A paediatrician charged for having caused the death of a newborn baby at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in 2008 has been acquitted by the Solna District Court in a case closely monitored by the Swedish medical community. READ »

Snus 'worse than smoking' for infant apnea

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 11
Infants born to mothers who used moist snuff or 'snus' while pregnant are at a greater risk of suffering from apnea than children whose mothers merely smoked during gestation, a new Swedish study shows. READ »

Hospital seeks advice on buying human body parts

Science & Technology: 30 Aug 11
Uncertainty about Swedish rules governing trade in human body parts has prompted Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm to seek guidance on its plans to buy human body parts to overcome a shortage of donated cadavers. READ »

Two men shot in Stockholm

National: 14 Aug 11
Two men, a 16-year-old and a 25-year-old, have been forced to surgery after a gunman began shooting in Stockholm suburb Brommaplan on Saturday evening. READ »

First synthetic windpipe transplanted in Sweden

Science & Technology: 8 Jul 11
An international team of surgeons have successfully carried out the world's first transplant of a synthetic windpipe, the Stockholm hospital where the groundbreaking operation took place announced on Thursday. READ »

Thirty Swedes bought kidneys abroad: study

National: 25 Mar 11
Around 30 Swedish kidney patients have travelled abroad since the 1980s to have transplants using organs bought from impoverished people in foreign countries, according to an unpublished study from Karolinska University Hospital. READ »

Stockholm taxi driver kills man using his car

National: 12 Mar 11
A 37-year-old man died in hospital after being hit by a taxi in a Stockholm suburb. Police believe the man was deliberately run over. READ »

Christer Pettersson: the only man ever tried for killing Olof Palme

Society: 28 Feb 11
An addict with a criminal past, Christer Pettersson remains the only person ever put on trial for the killing of Olof Palme, and while he was exonerated, many still consider him guilty. READ »

Swedish midwife re-used needle from HIV patient

Science & Technology: 17 Feb 11
A midwife at a Stockholm-area hospital used the same needle to treat a new mother as she had for another HIV positive patient. READ »

Icy conditions overwhelm Swedish hospitals

Society: 12 Feb 11
The recent slippery conditions across Sweden have resulted in record overcrowding in the country's emergency rooms. READ »

Hospital cleared in probe of Anna Lindh's care

National: 31 Jan 11
Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare said Monday that its review of her case revealed no grounds to criticise the care administered to former foreign minister Anna Lindh, following a fatal knife attack in 2003. READ »

'Karolinska shares patient data illegally'

Science & Technology: 24 Jan 11
Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital has been criticised for its failure to address “serious” shortcomings in how it handles patient information. READ »

Police probe suspected murder of Swedish teen

National: 6 Jan 11
A young man was found dead on the island Ekerö, just outside Stockholm. A young woman was also found severely injured. READ »

Man shot at Stockholm strip club

National: 30 Oct 10
Two masked men shot a man at a strip club in central Stockholm on Friday evening in what police believe could be a battle for market share among the city's sex clubs. READ »

Anna Lindh's care to be reviewed: agency

National: 20 Oct 10
Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare will review the care former foreign minister Anna Lindh received after she was stabbed in central Stockholm in September 2003. READ »

Hospital demands probe of Anna Lindh's care

National: 29 Sep 10
Karolinska University Hospital has requested an inquiry into the care it gave former foreign minister Anna Lindh after her fatal stabbing in September 2003. READ »

Bank robber shot by Swedish police

National: 15 Sep 10
A 19-year-old man suspected of robbing a branch of Swedbank south of Stockholm on Wednesday and taking a woman hostage, was shot and wounded by police after suspicions emerged that he was carrying explosives. READ »

Sweden spawns egg and sperm donor website

Science & Technology: 15 Sep 10
Long waiting times for the childless and unfavourable Swedish reproductive laws has spurred the opening of a new online business: a private egg and sperm donor social networking site that can arrange surrogacies. READ »

Antidepressants prevent suicide: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 15 Sep 10
Swedish researchers have concluded that antidepressant medication helps to save sufferers from depression from suicide, according to a new report. READ »

Toddler badly hurt in driveway accident

National: 12 Apr 10
A 15-month-old boy has been badly injured after being knocked down by a reversing car at a farm near Gnesta south of Stockholm on Monday. READ »

Sewage exposes Stockholm cocaine use

Society: 22 Mar 10
Clubbers and partygoers in Stockholm consume around 3,000 doses of cocaine per weekend night, according to tests on the city's sewage water. READ »

Hospital morgue wrestles with rotting corpses

Society: 26 Jan 10
Corpses at the morgue of the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, have started to rot due to a breakdown in procedures related to renovation of the facility. READ »

Gender-reassigned face health hurdles: study

Science & Technology: 12 Dec 09
This year 60 people have applied to change their sex in Sweden. Most gender-reassigned people achieve a better life through their surgery, but a new study shows that the risk of attempted suicide and psychological problems remains high. READ »

'Anti-depressants cut suicides': Swedish study

Society: 23 Oct 09
The number of suicides reported among the Swedish adult population has declined considerably and anti-depressants are credited with saving up to 500-600 lives per annum, a new study argues. READ »

Hazardous roads in Sweden as ice arrives

National: 15 Oct 09
A number of motorists were left needing hospital treatment on Thursday morning as icy road conditions caused accidents across Sweden. READ »

Pregnant woman ill in suspected swine flu case

Science & Technology: 28 Aug 09
A pregnant young Swedish woman is critically ill with a life-threatening lung infection that is suspected to be swine flu. READ »

Four Swedes critically ill with swine flu

Science & Technology: 26 Aug 09
Four Swedes are described by medical authorities as having a life-threatening condition following infection with the A/H1N1 swine flu. READ »

Scottish swine flu patient no longer critical

National: 8 Aug 09
The condition of the 26-year-old pregnant Scottish woman being treated for swine flu in a special ward at Karolinska Hospital is no longer life-threatening, doctors say. READ »

Refugees died after HIV misdiagnosis

National: 8 Aug 09
Several female refugees from Africa have died of AIDS after Swedish doctors failed to test them for HIV, reports Dagens Nyheter newspaper. READ »

Karolinska slammed over newborn deaths

Science & Technology: 29 Jul 09
Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska University hospital has been criticized by health authorities after three newborns died from infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria. READ »

Rinkeby fire claims seventh victim

National: 28 Jul 09
The 13-year-old girl that was badly burned in the fire in an apartment in Rinkeby in western Stockholm on Saturday evening has died of her injuries. The fire has now claimed seven victims. READ »

Swine flu Brit flown to Sweden for care

Science & Technology: 24 Jul 09
A gravely ill pregnant woman from Britain who is suffering from the swine flu is in Sweden for treatment due to a lack of specialist beds in Britain. READ »

Staff concerns plague Sweden's swine flu planning

National: 21 Jul 09
There are enough respirators in Sweden's 21 counties to handle the care of the patients who have been infected by swine flu. But questions remain as to whether there are enough trained staff to operate the machines. READ »

Swine flu infection threatens Swede's life

Science & Technology: 20 Jul 09
Doctors at at Vrinnevi hospital in Norrköping in eastern Sweden fear for the life of the 22-year-old Swede being treated for a swine flu infection after he failed to respond to treatment. READ »

Low IQ does not kill: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 13 Jul 09
A new Swedish study reveals that the connection between low intelligence and increased risk of premature death becomes non-existent when individual lifestyle factors are taken into account. READ »

'Sweden needs an abortion register'

Society: 15 Jun 09
A Swedish government inquiry has proposed establishing a national abortion register and distributing free contraceptives to students over fifteen in a bid to lower the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. READ »

Axeman rampage comes to bloody end

National: 14 Jun 09
A man was seriously injured when he was attacked by an axe-wielding man near Stockholm on Saturday. The axeman fled, crashed his car and was later found bleeding at a nearby metro station. READ »

Woman shot herself on Stockholm street

National: 31 May 09
A woman in her twenties shot herself by accident during an argument on a Stockholm street on Saturday afternoon. Police now suspect attempted murder. READ »

Teenage boy arrested for bus stop stabbing

National: 26 May 09
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for the attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl at a bus stop in Upplands-Väsby near Stockholm on Monday afternoon. READ »

Hospital exposed patients to infection

Science & Technology: 26 May 09
Patients at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna were housed last summer in the same department as those with the resistant MRSA bacteria, due to overcrowding. READ »

Girl stabbed in the back at bus stop

National: 25 May 09
A manhunt is underway in eastern Sweden after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the back at a bus stop in the town of Upplands Väsby on Monday afternoon. READ »

Elderly man kills wife with axe

National: 11 May 09
An 81-year-old man from Norrtälje in eastern Sweden reported to police on Monday morning that he had hit his 67-year-old common law wife with an axe. The woman died from her injuries during the afternoon. READ »

Foreign students help boost numbers at Swedish colleges

Education: 27 Apr 09
The number of students enrolled at Swedish universities climbed in 2008 for the first time since the early 2000s, new statistics show. Foreign students account for a large part of the increase. READ »

Bouncer remanded in custody for Gamla Stan shooting

National: 27 Apr 09
The 41-year-old bouncer suspected of having shot a couple in Gamla Stan in central Stockholm last Tuesday was remanded in custody on Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder. READ »

Police step up hunt for missing baby corpse

National: 24 Apr 09
Police confirm that they have received a wealth of tips and information about the dead baby that went missing from a Stockholm church mortuary prior to burial this week. READ »

Bouncer arrested over Gamla Stan shooting

National: 24 Apr 09
A second person has been detained in connection with the shooting earlier this week of a Swedish aristocrat and his girlfriend in Gamla Stan in central Stockholm. READ »

Mother of two held over Gamla Stan shooting

National: 23 Apr 09
The ex-wife of a Swedish aristocrat has been arrested on suspicions that she hired a gunman in an attempt to have her former husband and his new girlfriend killed. READ »

Couple wounded in Gamla Stan shooting

National: 22 Apr 09
Two people were shot and seriously injured in Stockholm’s historic Gamla Stan district Tuesday evening. READ »

Prosecutor: giving the pill to teens aids rape

Science & Technology: 16 Apr 09
A Swedish prosecutor thinks that health professionals who prescribe birth control pills to girls younger than 15-years-old should be charged as accomplices to rape. READ »

Cancer expert blasts blood clot study

Science & Technology: 31 Mar 09
Claims made in a recently published Swedish study into the health benefits of suntanning have been dismissed as dangerous speculation by one of Sweden’s leading cancer researchers. READ »

Sun worship curtails blood clot risk: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 25 Mar 09
Exposure to the sun strongly reduces the risk of suffering blood clots, a new Swedish study has shown. READ »

Two men stabbed in Stockholm

National: 15 Mar 09
Two men were stabbed in Stockholm on Saturday night. A man was found stabbed in a cellar in Skärholmen and another man was stabbed in the back in a fight on Hötorget in the centre of the city. READ »

Welfare board to investigate baby's death

National: 7 Mar 09
The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) is to open its own investigation into the death of a newborn baby at a Solna hospital as the arrest of the attending doctor sparks a storm of controversy. READ »

Acquittals for suspects in 'Romario' killing

National: 27 Feb 09
All three suspects charged in the stabbing death of 23-year-old Ahmed “Romario” Ibrahim Ali were acquitted on Friday by a Stockholm-area court. READ »

Health authorities won't hire med student with rape conviction

Education: 19 Jan 09
A medical student in Lund convicted for raping a minor will not be able to gain employment within the Swedish healthcare sector without prior approval, the National Board of Health and Welfare has ruled. READ »

Man dies as snowmobile goes through the ice

National: 18 Jan 09
A 65-year-old man died as a result of his snowmobile crashing through thin ice on a lake near Rättvik in central Sweden on Saturday evening. One of several accidents across the country over the weekend. READ »

Karolinska to cut 900 jobs

National: 14 Jan 09
Karolinska University Hospital has announced that 900 jobs will be cut from its facilities in the greater Stockholm region. READ »

Six injured in motorway collision

National: 29 Dec 08
Three people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash involving four cars on the E4 motorway just south of Stockholm. READ »

Casino gunman remains on the loose

National: 26 Dec 08
The police chase for the gunman who injured three people at the Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm on Christmas Eve has so far returned little result. On Boxing Day morning the man remained on the loose. READ »

Police hunt for casino gunman

National: 25 Dec 08
Police were on Thursday searching for an unidentified gunman who left three people nursing gunshot wounds after he opened fire when refused entry to the Casino Cosmopol in central Stockholm on Christmas Eve. READ »

Teenager dies of 'net drug' overdose

National: 15 Dec 08
An 18-year-old girl has died in Stockholm after overdosing on mephedrone, a drug that until now has been freely available for purchase on the internet. READ »

Demonstrators honour Stockholm's 'Romario'

National: 17 Nov 08
A large crowd gathered in central Stockholm on Sunday for a demonstration in honour of Ahmed "Romario" Ibrahim Ali, a 23-year-old footballer stabbed to death in a Stockholm suburb last month. READ »

Mourners seek lessons from Ibrahim murder

National: 28 Oct 08
The day after his funeral, friends and family of Ahmed Ibrahim are still wondering why the 23-year-old was stabbed to death in a Stockholm suburb and why the case has drawn such limited attention. READ »

Dead man dumped at Karolinska hospital

National: 18 Oct 08
A man in his twenties was dumped at Karolinska University hospital in Solna on Saturday morning - police report that the man had been stabbed to death. READ »

McDonald's withdraws 'deafening' toys

Society: 13 Sep 08
Fast-food chain McDonald's has announced the withdrawal of musical toys sold with Happy Meals in Sweden. The toys have been widely criticized as dangerous to children's hearing. READ »

Wedding guest hit by exploding cannon

Society: 31 Aug 08
A cannon salute was fired in honour of the happy couple at a reception near Stockholm on Saturday. A guest was left in no mood to celebrate however as the cannon exploded and left her with a broken leg and burns. READ »

Animal rights activists sabotage infectious disease centre

National: 25 Aug 08
A group of 50 animal rights activists forced a gate at the entrance to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in Stockholm on Monday morning. READ »

Abortion increase blamed on declining use of pill

Society: 24 Aug 08
The number of abortions performed in Sweden increased by 17 percent between 2000 and 2007. The declining use of the contraceptive pill is to blame, experts argue. READ »

Two hurt as 'gyrocopter' crashes near Stockholm

National: 23 Aug 08
A woman was seriously injured and a man sustained minor injuries as their home-made gyrocopter aircraft crashed in Upplands-Bro, north of Stockholm on Saturday. READ »

'Pretend order' led to conscript's death

National: 22 Aug 08
A platoon commander who gave the order that led to a Swedish conscript being killed in a military exercise in the Stockholm archipelago in May has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Armed Forces. READ »

Stockholm hospital in Facebook photo scandal

Society: 11 Aug 08
A staff member at Karolinska University Hospital is to undergo an internal investigation for taking photographs of an operation and making the pictures available for viewing on social networking site Facebook. READ »

Man in hospital after escalator collapse

National: 6 Aug 08
A worker was seriously injured when an escalator fell on top of him at Stockholm’s central train station on Tuesday night. READ »

Hate crime mars Europride launch

National: 28 Jul 08
Two men were stabbed and robbed of their mobile telephones in the Tantolunden area of Södermalm in Stockholm on Sunday night in an attack police are classifying as a hate crime. READ »

Police investigate building site collapse

National: 16 Jul 08
Police have launched an investigation into a building site collapse in the Stockholm suburb of Kista which claimed the life of one man and left two in hospital on Tuesday evening. READ »

Swedish soldier dies in shooting accident

National: 20 May 08
A Swedish conscript has died after being shot in a military exercise in the Stockholm archipelago on Tuesday afternoon. READ »

Patients feel effects of nurses strike

National: 21 Apr 08
Health services in several parts of Sweden began redirecting ambulance traffic so that emergency rooms participating in the healthcare workers strike can close as planned at noon on Monday. READ »

Man shot in the back near Stockholm

National: 7 Apr 08
A 39-year-old man was shot in the back on Sunday night in Alby south of Stockholm. READ »

Male obesity to weigh heavy on healthcare system

Science & Technology: 23 Jan 08
Young Swedish men have become so overweight that they may soon pose problems for the healthcare system, new research has shown. READ »

Christmas Eve stabbings in Stockholm

National: 25 Dec 07
A brawl involving several young people resulted with three men in the hospital and several questions as to what caused the violence. READ »

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