Karolinska

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Stockholm institute honours Michael J Fox

Business & Money: 5 Mar 10
Canadian-born actor Michael J Fox is to receive an honorary doctorate from Stockholm's Karolinska Institutet in recognition of his work with Parkinson's disease. 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 »

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 »

Hat-trick of Swedish universities make world top 100

Education: 8 Jan 10
Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University and Stockholm University have made the grade in a new list of the world’s top 100 higher education establishments. 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 »

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 »

Murderer’s admission to medical school sparks debate

Science & Technology: 4 Dec 09
The controversy surrounding a convicted murderer turned medical student continues as Sweden struggles to balance the right to education with protecting patients’, and society’s, best interests. READ »

Swede listed among world's most influential thinkers of 2009

Science & Technology: 1 Dec 09
Swedish international health and statistics expert Hans Rosling has been named as one of 2009’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. READ »

Swedish museum in Hawaiian skull handover

Science & Technology: 15 Nov 09
The return of 22 skulls taken from the Hawaiian community in the late 19th century was completed at a ceremony at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm on Saturday. READ »

Swedish researchers reveal key to forming lasting memories

Science & Technology: 10 Nov 09
Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have uncovered the mechanism that controls how the brain creates long-term memories, marking a significant step forward for developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease. 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 »

'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 »

Encouraging results for Swedish HIV vaccine

Science & Technology: 19 Oct 09
A Swedish HIV vaccine, Hivis, has shown the best preliminary results the world has seen so far, according to experts. 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 »

Growth hormones 'could repair brain damage': Swedish study

Science & Technology: 30 Sep 09
Brain damage due to alcohol abuse, previously considered irreversible, may by repairable with the help of growth hormones, Swedish researchers have learned. READ »

Top researcher 'too old' to work in Sweden

Science & Technology: 22 Sep 09
Award-winning professor Jan Åke Gustafsson of the world-renowned Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm is set to quit Sweden due to rules that force him to retire at 67. READ »

Sweden wants EU 'snus' tobacco ban to go up in smoke

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Sep 09
As countries across the EU curb smoking in public, Sweden is fighting to get a European-wide ban lifted moist tobacco, AFP's Marc Preel reports. READ »

Breast cancer rate doubles among pregnant Swedish women

Science & Technology: 14 Sep 09
The occurrence of breast cancer among pregnant women in Sweden has more than doubled since the 1960s, a new study shows. READ »

Swedish dad in bid for breast milk

Society: 2 Sep 09
Swedish father Ragnar Bengtsson has entered into an experiment that he hopes will help him breastfeed his future children. 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 »

'Chocolate is good for your heart': study

Science & Technology: 13 Aug 09
Eating chocolate two or more times per week strongly reduces the risk of heart disease for people who have previously survived a heart attack, new Swedish research has shown. READ »

15-year-old girl stabbed in Stockholm

National: 9 Aug 09
A 15-year-old girl in Tyresö south of Stockholm was stabbed in the chest and stomach on Saturday night by an unknown man. She is being treated at Karolinska Hospital, where her condition remains serious but stable. 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 »

Nobel corruption probe dropped

National: 8 Aug 09
An investigation into the alleged corruption of several members of the Nobel prize science committee will be laid down, a Swedish prosecutor announced Friday. 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 »

Suicide risk rises as grades sink: study

Science & Technology: 17 Jul 09
Youth and young adults who receive low marks in primary school are more likely to attempt suicide or self-mutilation compared with those who achieve high marks, according to a Swedish study. 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 »

Caesarean delivery can alter DNA: study

Science & Technology: 29 Jun 09
Researchers in Sweden believe they have discovered the DNA mutations explaining why children delivered by planned Caesarean section run a higher than average risk of contracting immunological diseases. READ »

Swedish parents keep 2-year-old's gender secret

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Jun 09
A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl. 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 »

Breast milk less toxic: study

Science & Technology: 7 Jun 09
Levels of PCBs and other toxic substances that babies consume via breast milk have declined considerably since the middle of the 1990s, a new Swedish study has shown. 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 »

Kidney transplant for Princess's fiancé

National: 27 May 09
Daniel Westling, the fiancé of Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria, has received a new kidney from his father, royal officials have announced. 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 »

'Heart cells undergo continual replacement': Swedish study

Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Heart cells are replenished throughout life, enabling improved treatments to repair damage caused by cardiac arrest or illness, a new Swedish study has shown. 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 »

Swede shortlisted for 'best job in the world'

Travel: 23 Mar 09
As Sweden awaits the imminent return of Robinson – the remote island reality TV show - to its screens, Felippe Melá is hoping for a shipwrecked story of his very own. 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 »

Netball club sets new goals in Sweden

Sport: 4 Mar 09
Sweden is something of a haven for indoor sports, with floorball already established as a popular institution. Netball on the other hand has yet to grip the popular imagination, but a new club in Stockholm is doing all it can to take the sport out of the shadows. 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 »

Overweight people die younger: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 25 Feb 09
Researchers in Sweden have found that people who are overweight from a young age run a much increased risk of dying prematurely. READ »

Older mothers at risk of psychosis: study

Science & Technology: 10 Feb 09
First-time mothers over the age of 35 run a greater risk of suffering psychosis after delivery than younger women, a new Swedish study shows. READ »

Laid back lifestyle lessens dementia risk: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 21 Jan 09
A laid back outlook, combined with an active lifestyle and outgoing personality may contribute to warding off the onset of dementia, Swedish researchers have found. 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 »

Drinking coffee reduces Alzheimer's risk: study

Science & Technology: 15 Jan 09
Middle-aged people who consume modest amounts of coffee can significantly lower their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by Finnish and Swedish researchers released on Thursday. 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 »

Man dies in Stockholm shooting

National: 31 Dec 08
One man died and another was seriously injured in a shooting in central Stockholm on Wednesday morning. Police have taken in two men for questioning, although confirm that the perpetrators remain at large. 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 »

Swedish scientists struggle to explain post-beer munchies

Science & Technology: 18 Dec 08
Swedish researchers found they had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire when their attempts to explain what causes people to eat more after an evening out drinking ultimately failed to satisfy. READ »

Nobel Committees investigated for bribery

Science & Technology: 18 Dec 08
Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible bribery after revelations that members of three Swedish Nobel Committees received free trips to China from the Chinese government. 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 »

Experiment allows people to 'shake hands with themselves'

Science & Technology: 4 Dec 08
Neuroscientists at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have succeeded in getting subjects to perceive another person's the body as their own. READ »

Swedish doctors back euthanasia

Politics: 29 Nov 08
Every third doctor in Sweden supports the legalization of euthanasia, according to a new survey presented at the ongoing "Global Health in a new world" conference in Gothenburg. READ »

Fast food can increase Alzheimer's risk: study

Science & Technology: 28 Nov 08
Results from a new Swedish study indicate there may be a connection between eating fast food and an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. 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 »

Violent video games alter childrens's heart rates: study

Science & Technology: 14 Nov 08
A new Swedish study shows that playing violent video games can alter children’s heart rates, raising concerns about violent games’ long term physiological effects on youngsters. READ »

Free fake penises raise functionality flap

Society: 6 Nov 08
A decision to allow transsexual men in Sweden to get prosthetic penises free of charge from local health authorities has drawn criticism because the prostheses on offer don’t get erect. READ »

Swedish study: heart attack risk and daylight savings linked

Science & Technology: 30 Oct 08
Researchers in Sweden have found that the twice yearly ritual of resetting the clock according to daylight savings time can affect one’s chances of suffering a heart attack. 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 »

SAD: You can beat the winter blues

Analysis & Opinion: 24 Oct 08
In a country famed for its long winter days, the impending darkness is a source of widespread grumbling. However, for some inhabitants, the short daylight hours are a cause for serious concern, as Jennifer Heape investigates. READ »