Hospital

The following articles have been tagged with "Hospital":

Paralysed woman demands right to die

Society: 18 Mar 10
A 31-year-old woman who is completely paralysed and has been on a respirator since she was six, has demanded the right to die in a letter to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. READ »

Stockholm police issue melting ice alert

National: 14 Mar 10
Two walkers fell through melting ice on Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm yesterday as warmer temperatures and underwater currents prompted police to issue a melting ice alert. READ »

Hospital probed as patient dies in wait of operation

National: 13 Mar 10
Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg has come under steep critcism after a woman with a serious bowel condition died, having been forced to wait seven hours for emergency treatment. READ »

House burns down after fire fighter exit

National: 10 Mar 10
A house in Hällefors in eastern Sweden burned to the ground on Sunday after fire fighters, satisfied that they had successfully extinguished a fire, left the still intact building. READ »

Opera chief wins appeal over concert floor collapse

Society: 4 Mar 10
The chief executive of the Norrland Opera House, Magnus Aspegren, has been cleared by the appeals court of any responsibility in connection with the floor collapse at a rock concert at the Umeå opera house in 2007. READ »

Grieving mother denied sickness benefit

Society: 2 Mar 10
A Swedish court has ruled that 24-year-old Sofie Karlsson lost her right to sickness benefit by failing to register as unemployed the day after the cancer death of her infant son. READ »

Immigrants cleaning Swedish cities: report

National: 2 Mar 10
Immigrants workers make up 41 percent of Sweden's cleaners despite accounting for only 16 percent of the workforce. In the cities the numbers are even higher, a new report shows. READ »

Driver reported for kicking gay man off bus

Society: 2 Mar 10
The discrimination ombudsman (DO) has asked Stockholm local transport authority, SL, to adequately compensate a gay man after a bus driver ordered him to leave the bus. READ »

Swedish research finds new meningitis bacteria

Science & Technology: 2 Mar 10
A new bacteria thought to be a cause of meningitis has been found in ticks, new Swedish research shows. READ »

Obese drunk driver: 'I'm too fat for jail'

National: 1 Mar 10
A 60-year-old man man convicted of drunk driving in northern Sweden has applied to the government for a pardon on the grounds that he is too fat to go to jail. READ »

Warmer winds carry falling ice warning

National: 26 Feb 10
A sudden change in the weather in Sweden has led to a heightened risk of icy roads, while pedestrians are urged to watch out for falling ice and snow from buildings. READ »

Theft of deadly medicine prompts 'catastrophe' concerns

National: 24 Feb 10
The theft of an extremely strong sedative from a Lund hospital has caused alarm. On the street the drugs could have catastrophic consequences with one ampoule enough to kill 50 men. READ »

'Most peanut allergies misdiagnosed': study

Science & Technology: 24 Feb 10
Swedish researchers have found that as many as two out of three people diagnosed as allergic can eat peanuts without any problems at all. READ »

Spectacular crash ends Järbyn's Olympics

Sport: 20 Feb 10
Veteran Swedish skier Patrik Järbyn saw his Olympic career come to an abrupt end on Friday as he crashed out of the super-G at the Vancouver Olympics. READ »

Mum endures c-section without anaesthetic

National: 10 Feb 10
A woman has reported Lund University Hospital to the medical board after being subjected to a caesarian section without the benefit of an anaesthetic. READ »

Man shot on Stockholm street

National: 9 Feb 10
A 29-year-old man was shot on Södermalm in Stockholm on Monday night. He was hit in the leg and in the shoulder, but was able to call an ambulance. No one has been arrested as the man refuses to talk to the police. READ »

Two Swedes killed in Afghanistan

National: 7 Feb 10
Two Swedish military officers and a local interpreter were killed on Sunday when their unit came under fire west of Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan. READ »

Appeals court confirms Stureby killing sentences

National: 5 Feb 10
The Svea Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentences for the two teenagers convicted in the killing of 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby last summer. READ »

Woman seriously injured in rooftop snowfall

National: 5 Feb 10
A 55-year-old woman was seriously injured by falling snow from the roof of a building in Blackeberg in Stockholm on Thursday. The cold snap has led to a record number of reports from worried pedestrians over hanging ice. READ »

Doctor charged over baby's death

National: 1 Feb 10
The paediatrician suspected of the alleged mercy killing of a baby at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital in Stockholm in September 2008 has been charged with manslaughter. READ »

Jilted hubby exacts mousy revenge

Society: 1 Feb 10
A 59-year-old man has been arrested for using his ex-wife's musophobia to wreak a cruel revenge for their break up after he pushed 19 mice through her letter box on Sunday morning. READ »

Fatal shooting in central Malmö

Society: 31 Jan 10
A 26-year-old man was shot dead in Malmö in southern Sweden early on Sunday morning. READ »

Referee killed by ice hockey puck

National: 31 Jan 10
An ice-hockey referee died on Saturday when he was hit by a puck during a game. READ »

Foreign docs' poor Swedish leading to errors

Society: 27 Jan 10
A doctor’s insufficient Swedish skills are being blamed for delaying the removal of a patient’s tumour by nearly two months, prompting concern among health officials about the number of doctors who don’t speak the language well enough. 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 »

Police shoot student at Swedish college

National: 26 Jan 10
A knife-wielding student at a college in western Sweden is recovering in hospital after being shot by a police officer on Tuesday morning. READ »

Tourist wounded in Malmö shooting

National: 25 Jan 10
A foreign tourist and a local teen were shot in in the Sofielund neighbourhood of Malmö in southern Sweden on Sunday night. READ »

No one safe from vomiting bug: study

National: 24 Jan 10
A new study from Linköping University suggests the so-called winter vomiting bug is far more infectious than previously thought. READ »

Children's hospital faces probe over baby death

National: 22 Jan 10
Parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after being admitted to the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital with pneumonia say a shortfall in the quality of care led to their child's death. READ »

Sweden to prescribe exercise to battle youth obesity

Science & Technology: 21 Jan 10
School nurses in Uppsala in eastern Sweden will soon begin prescribing children exercise in order to combat increasing obesity among teenage boys. READ »

'Send Swedes to Latvia for operations'

Education: 20 Jan 10
The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga is planning to start a Swedish-owned hospital in the Latvian capital in order to raise the standards of the country's hospitals and to remove some of the burden from the Swedish healthcare system. READ »

Swedish teen grows back face after pill horror

Society: 13 Jan 10
A Swedish teen who saw much of her skin blister away due to a rare allergic reaction to an over the counter painkiller has resumed a normal life following a long and difficult recovery. READ »

Give young transsexuals special ID cards: doc

Society: 7 Jan 10
Young Swedes who suspect they are transsexuals ought to be issued special ID cards allowing them to hide their undesired gender during their trial phase as the opposite sex, a leading child psychiatrist argues. READ »

Thin ice spells double trouble for persistent Swedish motorist

Society: 4 Jan 10
Things didn’t go as planned for a 42-year-old man when he tried to retrieve his car after it crashed through the ice on a lake near Lidköping in central Sweden. READ »

No suspects in attack against Malmö mosque

National: 2 Jan 10
As of New Year's Eve evening, police had no suspects for an attack against a mosque in Malmö earlier in the day when shots had been fired through the window. READ »

Sweden starts 2010 in typically messy fashion

National: 1 Jan 10
The early hours of 2010 were marked by fights, drunkenness, and fires in many parts of Sweden, as a well as traffic accidents and stray rockets. READ »

Woman beaten to death in Gothenburg

National: 30 Dec 09
An 18-year-old woman has died after being found severely beaten in the Hjällbo district of Gothenburg in western Sweden early Wednesday morning, prompting a massive police response to hunt down the woman's killer. READ »

Swede in coma after Philippines attack

National: 28 Dec 09
A Swedish citizen is fighting for his life after being assaulted by two security guards at a nightclub in Angeles City in the Philippines. READ »

Unauthorized gyno exams by medical students common: report

Science & Technology: 27 Dec 09
A woman with suspected cervical cancer was given a gynaecological exam without her knowledge by medical students at a hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden, a practice medical experts believe may be common. READ »

Calm weather expected for Christmas Day

Science & Technology: 25 Dec 09
A yuletide calm has settled over Sweden for Christmas, both on the roads and in the skies. READ »

Snow wreaks havoc on Sweden's roadways

Science & Technology: 17 Dec 09
Heavy snowfall and high winds continued to disrupt traffic in many parts of Sweden into Thursday afternoon. READ »

Swedish Rail Destinations: the surreal attractions of Piteå

Travel: 17 Dec 09
From sunbathing at midnight in summer to long walks over frozen ice in winter, Piteå is never short on fun and surreal activities. READ »

Referee's CPR saved hockey player's life

Sport: 14 Dec 09
A quick thinking referee saved the life of a Swedish ice hockey player after the player’s heart stopped during a match on Sunday. READ »

Swedish police officers injured in laser attack

National: 13 Dec 09
Two Swedish police officers received eye injuries after being shot by a green laser in Trelleborg in southern Sweden late Saturday night. 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 »

Fines for corrections officers who let man die

National: 11 Dec 09
Three corrections officers, who did nothing when they found an inmate had hanged himself at a remand centre in Mariestad in 2008, have been convicted of dereliction of duty. They each received fines equivalent to 80 days' wages. READ »

Holmberg leaves hospital in 'good condition'

Society: 9 Dec 09
Tiger Woods' mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg has been released from a Florida hospital after collapsing from stomach pains at the home of the golfing superstar. READ »

Barbro Holmberg rushed to Florida hospital

National: 8 Dec 09
Tiger Woods' Swedish mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg is reported to be in a stable condition after being admitted to a Florida hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning. READ »

Health workers' nitrous oxide stunt no laughing matter

Society: 8 Dec 09
Five health sector employees from Östersund in northern Sweden may lose their jobs following a staff party last week that got out of control. READ »

Elin Nordegren's mother in surprise US trip: report

Society: 7 Dec 09
Barbro Holmberg, the mother of golfer Tiger Woods’ Swedish wife Elin Nordegren, has unexpectedly cleared her schedule for the week and traveled to the United States, according to Swedish media reports. READ »

Queue at psychiatric clinic – man takes own life

Society: 5 Dec 09
A psychiatric clinic in Gothenburg has come under fire after a man in his forties who was seeking help was waiting so long that he gave up and went home, and then took his own life. READ »

Second heart procedure for Leafs' Gustavsson

Sport: 4 Dec 09
Toronto Maple Leafs goalkeeper Jonas Gustavsson will have his second heart procedure in less than three months after experiencing an elevated heart rate during a recent game. READ »

Laptop battery likely cause of fatal house fire

National: 3 Dec 09
An overheated laptop battery was the likely cause of a house fire which killed a mother and her four young children in Staffanstorp in southern Sweden in early September. READ »

Woods' Swedish wife in car crash rescue

Sport: 28 Nov 09
Tiger Woods' Swedish wife Elin Nordegren came to the rescue of her sporting superstar husband with a golf club after he was involved in a car crash outside his Florida home on Friday. READ »

Force smokers to quit before surgery: agency

Society: 27 Nov 09
Surgeons should be able to demand that a patient refrains from smoking in the period before and after an operation, the director-general of the Swedish Welfare Board argued on Friday. READ »

UK road runner Swede jailed over stabbing

National: 27 Nov 09
A Swedish woman has been jailed by a UK court for the manslaughter of a man she met shortly after she and her twin sister made a dash into oncoming traffic on the M6 motorway. READ »

Pre-teen boy held for rape attempt

National: 27 Nov 09
A 12-year-old boy attacked and tried to rape a 19-year-old woman in Borås in southern Sweden on Thursday evening. Police were able to detain the boy after the intervention of a neighbour. READ »

Sweden confirms 15 swine flu deaths

Science & Technology: 23 Nov 09
Sweden's disease control authorities report that three women and eleven men have died from the swine flu since August. The fifteenth victim, a 3-year-old boy who died at the weekend, was not included in the report. READ »

Heavily pregnant woman raped in home

National: 20 Nov 09
A heavily pregnant young woman was raped in her home on the outskirts of Stockholm late on Thursday afternoon. READ »

Shock therapy on the rise in Sweden: report

Society: 18 Nov 09
Swedish hospitals are increasingly turning to electroshock therapy to treat depression, but have failed to adequately warn patients about the risk for memory loss associated with the treatment, a new investigation reveals. READ »

Young woman with swine flu dies in Sweden

Science & Technology: 18 Nov 09
A 20-year-old woman from Norrköping in eastern Sweden has died after contracting the swine flu virus. Hospital records show that the woman was also suffering from pneumonia. READ »

Court upholds conviction for Swedish hockey player's on-ice fight

Sport: 18 Nov 09
A Swedish ice hockey player who was sentenced to two months in prison after fighting with an opposing player has had his conviction upheld upon appeal, but will not have to spend time behind bars. READ »

Addict's death leads to fines for civil servant

National: 17 Nov 09
A manager within Gothenburg social services has been convicted for refusing to allow a 24-year-old drug addict into institutional care. The addict later died from an overdose. READ »

Deadly skin cancer on the rise in Sweden: study

Science & Technology: 16 Nov 09
The number of Swedes diagnosed with one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer has increased by 50 percent over the last decade, a new study shows. READ »

Injured soldiers back on Swedish soil

National: 13 Nov 09
Two of the five soldiers injured in Wednesday's bomb explosion in Afghanistan landed in Sweden on Thursday evening. A further two aircraft with medical personnel have been dispatched to bring back the other casualties. READ »

Swedish soldiers 'unstable' after Afghanistan explosion

National: 12 Nov 09
The conditions of two of the soldiers injured in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan on Wednesday are reported to have deteriorated overnight. READ »

'Hamburglar' hits Stockholm-area McDonald's

Society: 12 Nov 09
A hungry thief sent an employee from a Stockholm-area McDonald’s to hospital on Wednesday night before making off with a booty that included more than just money. READ »

Five Swedish soldiers injured in Afghanistan

National: 11 Nov 09
Five Swedish soldiers have been injured in an explosion that also claimed the life of a local foreign language interpreter, the Swedish Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday. READ »

Hospital reports new swine flu-related death

National: 10 Nov 09
A man in his sixties from central Sweden who was suffering from the swine flu has been found dead in his home, according to a statement from Örebro hospital. READ »

Napping cat may have killed sleeping infant

National: 10 Nov 09
A sleeping cat is suspected of having inadvertently suffocated a three-month baby to death in northern Sweden. READ »

Violent attacks mar Djurgården win

Sport: 9 Nov 09
Djurgården football club is facing hefty fines after fans attacked players from the opposing team following the Stockholm team’s thrilling Sunday night victory to avoid relegation. READ »

Lax procedures raise risk of accidental abortion

Science & Technology: 2 Nov 09
Healthy foetuses risk being aborted by mistake due to procedural deficiencies and misinterpreted ultrasounds at Swedish hospitals, a recent investigation shows. READ »

Swine flu toddler dies in Swedish hospital

National: 2 Nov 09
A 3-year-old boy suffering from the swine flu died at the weekend at the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Stockholm. Doctors have not yet established whether the boy's death was caused by the virus. READ »

Swedish girl, 16, dies in Alpine fall

National: 30 Oct 09
A 16-year-old girl from Falun in central Sweden has died following a hiking accident in the French Alps. READ »

Rooks draw Swedish village into Hitchcock Halloween nightmare

National: 30 Oct 09
The residents of a village in southern Sweden are facing up to their own Halloween nightmare as an invasion of birds befalls their countryside idyll. READ »

Mentally ill man behind Gothenburg bomb scare

National: 30 Oct 09
A man wearing a bomb belt paralyzed central Gothenburg on Thursday evening when threatened to blow it a tram. The perpetrator has since been identified as a 61-year-old suffering from a psychological disorder and is known to the police. READ »

Mystery Malmö man with no memory identified

Society: 29 Oct 09
The mystery of a man who woke up in a Malmö hospital in September claiming to have lost his memory and not know who he was has been solved. READ »

Man murdered in party knife attack

National: 25 Oct 09
A 25-year old man has died from his injuries after being stabbed at a house party near Borås, western Sweden, on Saturday evening. 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 »

Swine flu cases at record high

National: 23 Oct 09
Cases of swine flu reached record levels last week with 198 new cases in comparison to 93 the previous week. Around 200 cases of side effects from the flu vaccine have so far been reported. READ »

Three dead following head-on collision

National: 19 Oct 09
Two people died at the scene of a head-on collision between two cars on a main road in Dalarna in central Sweden on Monday afternoon. A third victim died later from injuries sustained in the crash. READ »

Malmö mystery man 'sounds Dutch': linguist

National: 15 Oct 09
A man in southern Sweden who has called on the public to help him rediscover his identity probably has either Dutch or Flemish as his native language, a prominent forensic linguist tells The Local. READ »

Swedish study finds body temperature best taken from behind

Science & Technology: 15 Oct 09
A Swedish study has shown that inserting a thermometer into a patient’s mouth or ear is not the most reliable way to determine whether or not someone has a fever. 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 »

'Who am I?' - Mystery foreigner pleads for help

Society: 14 Oct 09
A man who woke up in a Malmö hospital bed four weeks ago without any recollection of who he is or how he got there has turned to the Swedish public for help in determining his identity. READ »

Man held for setting ex-wife on fire

National: 13 Oct 09
A 51-year-old man has been remanded into custody after setting fire to his ex-wife in Gävle in eastern Sweden. READ »

Swine flu vaccinations underway in Sweden

National: 12 Oct 09
The largest vaccination programme in Swedish history got underway on Monday as health workers in the south of the country received the first shots to protect against the swine flu. READ »

Little Sweden on the Prairie

Travel: 12 Oct 09
Välkommen till Lindsborg - Between barbecued ribs and meatballs, Robert La Bua finds Swedish culture alive and well in Little Sweden, USA. READ »

Baby 'could have died' due to hospital drug error

National: 12 Oct 09
A three-month old baby was mistakenly prescribed a dose of painkillers ten-times higher than the recommended level following an operation at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital near Stockholm. READ »

Swedish soldier injured in Afghanistan

National: 11 Oct 09
A Swedish soldier was injured in Afghanistan on Saturday when his unit was attacked near Sayyad. READ »

Woman murdered in Malmö shootings

National: 10 Oct 09
A man and a woman in their twenties were found with gun-shot wounds to the head in Malmö in the early hours of Saturday morning. The female victim later died from injuries sustained. READ »

Swedish soldiers shot in Afghanistan firefight

National: 9 Oct 09
Two Swedish soldiers are recovering after sustaining injuries in a firefight in the vicinity of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan on Thursday evening. READ »

Doctor vindicated in newborn's death

National: 6 Oct 09
There was nothing wrong with the care given to a newborn baby who died in September of last year at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital, according to a report on the incident. READ »

Swedish hospital performed eye surgery on wrong woman

Society: 6 Oct 09
A 70-year-old Swedish woman who went to hospital for a cataract examination ended up having surgery on her eyelid by mistake. READ »

Johan, 24, suffocated to death by police

National: 6 Oct 09
A 24-year-old man died in Gothenburg died last April as a direct result of injuries sustained at the hands of police officers. But none of the officers involved have been held accountable as prosecutors failed to follow up on the case. READ »