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February 14, 2012
Fertility
The following articles have been tagged with "Fertility":
Swedish lesbians more keen to wed: study
Society: 2 Aug 11
More Swedish lesbians than gay men have taken advantage of rules allowing same-sex couple's to get married, new statistics show.
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Swedish model slashes multiple-birth risk in IVF pregnancies
Science & Technology: 5 Jul 11
Swedish doctors on Monday presented a new method they claim dramatically reduces the risk of multiple births from in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) without affecting chances of having a baby.
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More Swedes having three kids: study
Society: 23 Jun 11
Since the 1990's it has become increasingly more common for Swedish families to choose to have a third child, a new study from Statistics Sweden shows.
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The Lowdown on Swedish Midsummer
Lifestyle: 22 Jun 11
Midsummer is approaching - but what are we celebrating and why do Swedes celebrate the way they do? The Local explains.
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Swedish town mulls IVF discount to combat population drain
Society: 16 Jun 11
A municipality in northwestern Sweden wants to offer financial aid to employees in need of fertility treatment in an attempt to recruit new residents to the area and boost dwindling population figures.
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Swedish hospitals launch campaign touting early pregnancy
Science & Technology: 26 May 11
Health authorities in southern Sweden are launching a public awareness campaign to encourage couples to have children sooner to combat the trend of women having their first child at an increasingly older age.
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Valborg - Sweden blazes into springtime
Lifestyle: 29 Apr 11
Summer's just around the corner. That's as good a cause for celebration in Sweden as any, and the revelry on Valborgsmässoafton - Walpurgis Night - on April 30th gets pretty hot.
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Easter - when Sweden's witches come out to play
Lifestyle: 21 Apr 11
What do you associate with Easter: eggs, lambs and church? Sweden has these too, but it also features bonfires and witches on broomsticks off to dance with the devil at Blåkulla. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius investigates.
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Swedes can expect to live longer: report
National: 17 Mar 11
Swedes are living longer than ever before, according to new statistics, with residents of one upscale Stockholm suburb claiming the highest average life-expectancy for both sexes.
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Winners accept prizes in Nobel week climax
Society: 10 Dec 10
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf handed the 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry their prizes on Friday at a gala ceremony in Stockholm.
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Swedish woman in coma after botched breast op
Society: 17 Nov 10
A Swedish woman who underwent breast enlargement surgery in Poland after booking with a medical tourism company remains in a coma three months after the operation.
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Swedish scientists map egg-sperm at conception
Science & Technology: 22 Oct 10
Swedish researchers have for the first time mapped how an egg receptor binds with sperm at the moment of fertilisation, work which may eventually aid couples who are unable to have children.
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Father of test tube babies claims Nobel in medicine
Science & Technology: 4 Oct 10
The first of the 2010 Nobel Prizes, the prize for medicine, has been awarded to British researcher Robert Edwards for his work on in-vitro fertilization.
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IVF children have higher cancer risk: study
Science & Technology: 20 Jul 10
A study on Swedish children born after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has shown that they have a moderately higher cancer risk than other children.
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Swedish population to top 10 million in 2021
National: 15 Apr 10
Sweden's population increased by 84,000 people in 2009 and is set to grow by 600,000 over the next ten years, passing the 10 million mark in 2021, according to a new forecast.
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Luke Perry: from 90s teen hearthrob to Swedish film star
Lifestyle: 1 Oct 09
Former Beverly Hills 90210 star Luke Perry bares all in the new Swedish romantic comedy “Äntligen Midsommar” (‘Finally Midsummer’). The Local recently caught up with the American actor to hear what he thought about getting naked with Swedish women.
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Lesbian couples cause run on Swedish sperm banks
Science & Technology: 23 Jul 09
A shortage of healthy sperm and a spike in demand from lesbian couples has caused a backlog of artificial insemination applications at Swedish fertility clinics.
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Sweden's baby boom hits new high
Society: 20 Mar 09
Swedish women are giving birth to more babies than at any point since the earlier nineties, new figures show.
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Higher birth rates among Sweden's foreign-born
Society: 3 Nov 08
Foreign-born women living in Sweden are giving birth to more children on average than women born in Sweden, new statistics show.
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Swedish lesbian couple sues over fertility treatment rules
Society: 2 Sep 08
The ombudsman against discrimination due to sexual orientation (HomO) is taking the case of a lesbian couple from northern Sweden who claim they don’t have equal access to artificial insemination procedures.
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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.
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Singapore mulls Swedish way to cure baby blues
Society: 10 Jul 08
Singapore is mulling the adoption of Sweden's procreation policies to address the country's chronic baby shortage.
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Sweden Democrat used Nazi propaganda
Politics: 7 Jul 08
The Sweden Democrats have landed in hot water after one of their representatives published an article on the party's website using phrases borrowed from a neo-Nazi group.
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What's on in Sweden: May 2 - 8
Lifestyle: 1 May 08
What's on this week in Sweden: Student carnival in Stockholm, Tom McRae in Gothenburg, top flight football in Malmö.
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'Too fat to be a father'
Society: 8 Aug 07
Jan Karlsson from Tibro in western Sweden has been told by staff at an artificial insemination clinic that he is too fat to become a father.
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Hardy Swedes gear up for classic challenge
Lifestyle: 15 Jun 07
Nicholas Chipperfield explains why 17,800 people from 34 countries are getting on their bikes by a lake in the middle of Sweden this weekend.
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Akzo Nobel sells unit to US company
Business & Money: 12 Mar 07
Dutch-Swedish pharmaceutical group Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its Organon BioSciences drugs unit to US rival Schering-Plough for €11 billion.
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Midsummer: Sweden's real national day
Lifestyle: 21 Jun 06
Forget June 6th – Sweden's real national day is Midsummer's Eve, and you'd be hard pressed to find a Swede not dreaming of a red cottage, a lake (and a mildly suggestive Maypole).
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Japanese PM: we can learn from Sweden
National: 5 May 06
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said that Japan has much to learn from Sweden's policy on welfare and challenges like ageing populations.
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International marriages end sooner
Society: 29 Nov 05
If your husband or wife comes from a different country to you, your marriage will probably be over sooner than if you had been born in the same country: just one fascinating fact from the annual statistical picture of Sweden, released this week.
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Parliament approves lesbian IVF law
Smörgåsbord: 4 Jun 05
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No more trips to Finland for lesbian couples
Society: 27 May 05
A new law will give gay women couples the right to fertility treatment in Swedish hospitals. A bill will be presented to parliament in July allowing both partners to be named as parents to the child.
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"Stockpile your own flu medication"
Science & Technology: 24 Feb 05
That's the advice of the government's health expert following the news that the Swedish government will only stockpile enough medication to inoculate half a million emergency personnel. That, incidentally, includes garbage collectors.
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Air pollution "could cause 5,000 Swedish deaths a year"
Science & Technology: 17 Feb 05
A joint study by Umeå and Stockholm universities shows that the effects of air pollution from the rest of Europe are far greater than previously thought, with thousands dying from resultant diseases each year.
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Is Sweden prepared for a flu pandemic?
Science & Technology: 9 Feb 05
As fears rise of an unstoppable global outbreak of asian bird flu, the head of the infectious diseases unit at the board of health says that Sweden is as well-prepared as any European country. But that's not saying much.
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Swedish doctors "wrote illegal ADHD prescriptions"
Science & Technology: 5 Feb 05
Sweden's state-owned pharmacy, Apoteket, has lost control over the distribution of Concerta, a variety of the Ritalin drug for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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Depression "behind one in three physical ailments"
Science & Technology: 27 Jan 05
A Swedish professor suggests that obesity could be a direct result of depression. And if there's some other reason behind your increasing waistline a new stomach-reducing corset may be the answer.
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Apathetic refugee children: a Swedish phenomenon
Science & Technology: 23 Jan 05
Around 150 children of refugee families in Sweden have stopped eating, talking or connecting in any way with the world around them. While the government awaits a report into the problem, initial findings show that it is unheard of in other Nordic countries.
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Swedes drink like it's 1870
Science & Technology: 13 Jan 05
Alcohol consumption in Sweden is back at mid-19th century levels. But back then they had grinding poverty, disease and folk singing to blot out. So what's the excuse now?
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Swedish psychologist warns of amateur crisis groups
Science & Technology: 5 Jan 05
With four out of ten Swedes apparently knowing someone who was affected by the tsunami in Asia, a leading psychologist warns that support groups run by well-meaning but untrained volunteers are "a dangerous route".
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Sleep therapy instead of pills, Swedish doctors told
Science & Technology: 29 Dec 04
A sleep specialist at Uppsala Hospital suggests that doctors should prescribe cognitive behavioural therapy for their insomniac patients instead of telling them to reach for the pills.
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10% of men "depressed during pregnancy"
Science & Technology: 27 Dec 04
New Swedish research shows that depression during pregnancy is as common among prospective fathers as it is among prospective mothers.
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Huge rises in dentist fees "are fair"
Science & Technology: 16 Dec 04
A visit to a Swedish dentist can cost twice as much today as it would have six years ago. Yet a new report says we're not being ripped off.
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Surgery offers hope for social phobia sufferers
Science & Technology: 5 Dec 04
As social phobia sufferers prepare to endure another festive season, a new surgical technique could help - by "blocking the stress nerve".
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Sweden to begin testing HIV vaccine on humans
Science & Technology: 1 Dec 04
World AIDS day brings a spark of hope for those fighting against the disease around the world, as Swedish researchers get the green light to test a new vaccine on healthy volunteers.
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Drugs "to be tested on children"
Science & Technology: 25 Nov 04
... is the rather dramatic way in which the tabloids dealt with the news of a new EU law to ensure that medicines for children go through the same rigorous trials as medicines for adults.
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Major study links 'snus' to cancer
Science & Technology: 18 Nov 04
As if the horrific breath and stained teeth aren’t argument enough to stop, researchers now believe that 'snussing' dramatically increases the risks of getting mouth and pancreatic cancer.
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Open up mental health system to avert crisis
Science & Technology: 11 Nov 04
In the week that the Supreme Court reviews the sentence on Anna Lindh's killer, Lysanne Sizoo points out where the Swedish mental health system is breaking down - and offers a creative solution.
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New minister proposes 'period pain days'
Politics: 2 Nov 04
The new Equal Opportunities Minister and former TV celeb, Jens Orback, smooth-talks his way into office with something for the ladies as the dust settles on last week's cabinet kerfuffle.
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Government blocks funds for improved 112 services
Science & Technology: 26 Oct 04
Mobile phone calls to Sweden's emergency services are putting the system under severe strain - but the government won't pay 5 million crowns for new technology which would "save 100 lives a year".
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New hope for childhood cancer treatment
Science & Technology: 20 Oct 04
Researchers in Sweden and Norway have announced the startling discovery that a certain form of child cancer could be cured with ordinary painkillers.
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Smoking can increase arthritis risk
Science & Technology: 13 Oct 04
A new Swedish study gives smokers "the best motivation yet" to quit: if you have a genetic predispostion to arthritis, smoking dramatically increases your chances of getting it.
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Swedish parents warned about umbilical blood collection
Science & Technology: 13 Oct 04
A Norwegian company has been criticised in Sweden for offering to freeze and store umbilical blood as an 'insurance' against children's future illness. Bad science or just bad marketing?
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Low birth weight "doubles adolescent suicide risk"
Science & Technology: 28 Sep 04
A new Swedish study reveals that babies born underweight or to teenage mothers are twice as likely to commit suicide as adolescents.
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Swedish medicine "could replace insulin" for Type 2 diabetics
Science & Technology: 14 Sep 04
The trial of a new Swedish treatment for diabetes has proved so successful that the man leading the research believes the drug could dramatically improve the quality of life for Type 2 diabetics within three years.
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3% facing Winter Depression
Science & Technology: 9 Sep 04
New research suggests that Seasonal Affective disorder is misunderstood and often misdiagnosed - but treatment can be effective.
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Breast is best for women predisposed to breast cancer
Science & Technology: 27 Aug 04
For women who have a genetic predisposition to breast cancer, the old adage, 'breast is best' has found new significance: best for baby, but now, it seems, also best for mother.
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Viagra: get it now!
Science & Technology: 20 Aug 04
In, out, in - Viagra's back in the package of subsidised medicines, for two weeks at least. And if that doesn't put you off your breakfast, the week's news of scary cereals might.
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Acne medication "caused young woman's death"
Science & Technology: 13 Aug 04
The death of a young woman in Kalmar raises concerns about the side-effects of a popular medication, killer algae hits the east coast, and there's an alarming rise in sexually transmitted diseases.
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E.coli on the attack in Gothenburg
Science & Technology: 6 Aug 04
A dramatic rise in the nasty tick disease TBE, the mystery of stomach ulcers is revealed, and food poisoning strikes at a football tournament. Insert your own joke about the players' dazzling runs.
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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