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May 28, 2012
Medicine
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'Immature' kids more likely to get ADHD drugs
Science & Technology: 10 May 12
Children in Sweden diagnosed with and prescribed drugs for attention deficit disorders like ADHD may simply be immature in comparison to their peers, according to new statistics.
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Doctor jailed for sexually molesting patients
Science & Technology: 10 May 12
A Swedish doctor has been jailed for molesting his female patients after 11 women reported him for his sexual advances during examinations.
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Swedish girls' desire for beauty ops spikes
Science & Technology: 19 Apr 12
Interest among Swedish women in beauty-enhancing plastic surgery operations has ballooned dramatically in the last two years, especially among those aged 15-29.
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Hospital mix-up causes post-funeral autopsy
Science & Technology: 17 Apr 12
A family in eastern Sweden was devastated to learn that their decesed loved-one would have to be autopsied after the funeral due to a hospital snafu.
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Stoned Swedish nurse ignored suffering patient
Science & Technology: 13 Apr 12
A Swedish night shift nurse has been fired from a Gothenburg hospital for being high on cannabis and failing to notice a patient's rapidly deteriorating condition.
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More suicides among cancer patients: study
Science & Technology: 5 Apr 12
Suicide and fatal heart attack rates are distinctly higher among people who have been diagnosed with cancer, according to a new Swedish study.
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‘My monkey was my best friend’: Queen Silvia
Society: 5 Apr 12
Swedish Queen Silvia recently confessed to a children's magazine that when she was a child her best friend was the family’s pet monkey, Mickey.
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87-year-old woman discovers she is 'dead'
Society: 29 Mar 12
An "active" 87-year-old woman from western Sweden was gobsmacked recently when she received a letter informing her of her own death.
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Sweden readies for daylight savings time
Science & Technology: 24 Mar 12
Don't forget to set your clocks forward one hour on Saturday night. Once again, the time has come to change to daylight savings time, marking the start for longer and brighter evenings in Sweden.
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Sleeping man rapes sleeping woman
National: 23 Mar 12
A 27-year-old man from northern Sweden charged with raping a sleeping woman has defended himself by claiming he too was asleep at the time.
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Search continues for Hercules crash victims
National: 18 Mar 12
The search continued on Sunday for the bodies of those killed after a Norwegian Hercules military transport plane crashed into Sweden's highest peak Kebnekaise on Thursday.
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‘Swedish is the world’s richest language’: Swede
Lifestyle: 9 Mar 12
After meeting a Swede who claimed that Swedish was the richest of all the world’s languages, The Local’s Oliver Gee searched a little deeper into how Swedish rates on the world stage.
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Pregnant women told to abort healthy foetuses
Science & Technology: 25 Feb 12
Several pregnant women were incorrectly told by Swedish medical authorities that they'd miscarried, and were encouraged to abort their perfectly healthy foetuses.
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Dead woman kept frozen in Sweden for four years
National: 22 Feb 12
The body of a 90-year-old woman who died four years ago has remained frozen since her death, as her distraught daughter refuses to have her buried before an autopsy can determine the cause of death.
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Skåne hardest hit by 'swine flu' narcolepsy
National: 19 Feb 12
Thirty-three of Sweden's 177 cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Skåne after Sweden's massive vaccination campaign against swine flu in 2009. The southern region has been unusually hard struck by the vaccine Pandemrix's side effects.
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Sweden approves medical 'marijuana'
Science & Technology: 12 Feb 12
Medicinal cannabis is now available as a prescription medicine in Sweden after the Medical Products agency approved a cannabis-based mouth spray for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
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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.
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Air pollution worse than smoking mother: study
Science & Technology: 5 Feb 12
Exhaust fumes and ground-level ozone increase the risk for premature birth, according to a study by a team of researchers at Umeå University in northern Sweden.
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Swedes out in force to protest anti-piracy law
National: 4 Feb 12
Swedes took to the streets of Stockholm and other major cities on Saturday to protest against the ACTA anti-piracy legislation which is set to go before the Riksdag later this year.
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Birth control pills help painful periods: study
Science & Technology: 18 Jan 12
Researchers in Sweden have now proven what many women have long suspected about the pain relief powers of birth control pills.
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Doctoral studies in Sweden: how to apply
Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
Thinking of applying for doctoral studies in Sweden? Here's how to get started.
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Nurse beat dementia patient with broom
National: 14 Jan 12
A nursing assistant suspected of having hit a patient with dementia in the head with a broom at a nursing home in Båstad, in southern Sweden has been reported to police following the incident.
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Rat poison found in erectile dysfunction pills
Science & Technology: 14 Jan 12
Buying cures for erectile dysfunction from unknown websites can prove useless, if not actually dangerous, according to Swedish medical authorities, as one recently confiscated aphrodisiac was shown to contain the rat poison strychnine.
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Festivalgoers' pee pollutes Swedish river
Science & Technology: 12 Jan 12
A lack of available portable toilets for drug-taking attendees of an annual reggae festival in Uppsala in eastern Sweden left a local river with dangerously high levels of drug remnants, a new study has found.
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Patient dies after nine-hour ER wait
Science & Technology: 27 Dec 11
A patient who was forced to wait for nine hours in the emergency room at a hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden died just fifteen minutes after finally being admitted.
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Care home turned cost cutting 'into a game'
Science & Technology: 22 Dec 11
Swedish nursing home operator Carema Care urged staff to compete with one another to see how much they could save on elderly residents' food, diapers, and protective gloves, according to employees.
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Woman 'lived for months' with rotting corpse
National: 20 Dec 11
A 52-year-old Swedish woman is believed to have lived with a dead body on her sofa for months, after police found the body of a dead man, reported missing in September, decomposing in her living room.
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Swedish seniors stay active through exercise
Lifestyle: 14 Dec 11
Swedish senior citizens, some well into their 90s, are staying fit and active by taking up regular exercise even long after reaching retirement age, the AFP's Pia Ohlin reports.
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Convicted killer jailed for raping 12-year-old girl
National: 13 Dec 11
A 41-year-old man previously convicted of murder was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl in a stairwell in Stockholm in July.
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Man in hiding after wife's 'antifreeze cocktail'
National: 13 Dec 11
A Swedish man has gone into hiding in Norway after claiming that his wife tried to kill him by serving him antifreeze in a glass of Coke.
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'Women to blame if they suffer abuse': study
National: 12 Dec 11
A third of the staff working in Sweden's largest hospital emergency room believe it's the woman's fault if she is physically abused, according to a new Swedish study.
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Laureates accept Nobel prizes in Stockholm
Society: 10 Dec 11
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out the Nobel prizes in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry the 2011 laureates at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.
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Sweden proposes ban on sex with animals
National: 28 Nov 11
After years of debate on the issue, a new proposed law on animal welfare suggests the outlawing of sexual encounters with animals in Sweden, a practice previously decriminalized in 1944.
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Pregnant woman dies from taking painkillers
Science & Technology: 9 Nov 11
A doctor who failed to inquire if a woman was pregnant has been rapped by Swedish health authorities for prescribing painkillers by phone leading to the death of the woman and her nearly full-term foetus.
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Swedish woman loses breast after misdiagnosis
Science & Technology: 4 Nov 11
A 32-year-old woman in Gävle in eastern Sweden had her breast removed following a faulty diagnosis, bringing to three the number of women in the area who have lost their breasts due to medical errors.
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Doc tried to trade drugs for sex with addicts
Society: 21 Oct 11
A doctor from the north of Sweden was recently found to have offered drugs for sexual favours to women with a history of drug addiction.
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New tests prove Bergman DNA claims false
Society: 19 Oct 11
The DNA tests claimed to prove that world-renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was switched at birth were false, according to a new study.
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Deceased laureate to retain Nobel Prize
Science & Technology: 3 Oct 11
The Nobel Foundation ruled on Monday evening that Ralph Steinman will retain his share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine even though he died before being named recipient of the award.
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Nobel: one of the laureates died last week
National: 3 Oct 11
Ralph M. Steinman, one of the three researchers jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the immune system, died last week at the age of 68.
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Alfred Nobel’s last will and testament
Analysis & Opinion: 3 Oct 11
Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will.
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Three share 2011 Nobel in medicine
Science & Technology: 3 Oct 11
Three researchers have been jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries related to the immune system.
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Swedish researchers in 'depression gene' find
Science & Technology: 28 Sep 11
Swedish researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg have managed to identify a gene which they believe has a strong connection to bipolar disorder.
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Painkillers might hold back cancer: study
Science & Technology: 27 Sep 11
Ordinary painkillers might be able to hold back the growth of cancer tumours, according to a new Swedish study from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
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Swedish police to become better drivers
National: 16 Sep 11
From 2013, Swedish police recruits will receive more extensive training in driving emergency vehicles in an attempt to reduce the number of officers injured in road accidents.
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'She passed away after the last injection'
National: 15 Sep 11
The trial against a Swedish doctor accused of infant euthanasia entered its second day on Thursday with the mother of the baby describing the care received as "beneath contempt".
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Stockholm University: making an enemy of cancer
Education: 12 Sep 11
The work of Stockholm University's Professor Thomas Helleday has been described as 'potentially the biggest breakthrough in cancer research for decades'. The Swedish way of working has been key to his success, he says.
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Top ten Swedish tech innovations
Science & Technology: 7 Sep 11
Sweden is renowned for its innovation and strong research tradition and The Local has compiled a list of ten technological breakthroughs of the last decade.
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Sweden fails to close cardiac care gender gap
Science & Technology: 29 Aug 11
Female heart attack patients in Sweden still receive inferior treatment than men, according to a new study.
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Thief comes clean and empties undies of loot
Society: 9 Aug 11
A 31-year-old thief admitted to charges of aggravated theft in the middle of a remand hearing in Skellefteå in northern Sweden, and proceeded to produce his ill-gotten gains from his underpants.
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School grades are linked to diet: study
Science & Technology: 27 Jul 11
Young people whose diet is high in folate (the natural alternative to folic acid) are more successful in school, according to a recently published Swedish study.
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AstraZeneca heart drug given US approval
Business & Money: 21 Jul 11
Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals firm AstraZeneca announced on Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its Brilinta heart drug for use on patients in the United States.
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Researchers nearing Norovirus treatment in Sweden
Science & Technology: 16 Jul 11
Swedish researchers have uncovered the mysterious reasons for why we vomit when infected with the Norovirus. A medicine, already in circulation, can be used in future to help both sick Swedes and third world children risking death from stomach flu.
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Swedish airport reports record heroin bust
National: 13 Jul 11
Swedish customs officers at Skavsta airport, south of Stockholm, made the airport’s largest bust of heroin to date when they confiscated over a kilo of the drug on Friday.
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Ambassador meets detained journalists
National: 9 Jul 11
The Swedish ambassador to Ethiopia was allowed to see the two jailed Swedish journalists in Addis Ababa on Friday in what is seen as a positive step by observers.
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'Record bust' of hashish in southern Sweden
National: 7 Jul 11
A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for organising the smuggling of close to half a ton of hashish, and over nine kilogrammes of amphetamine.
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Fuglesang survives homeopathic pill overdose
Science & Technology: 7 Jul 11
A group from a Swedish science organisation, with astronaut Christer Fuglesang in the lead, took an overdose of sleeping pills in Almedalen, at 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon, in order to disprove the effects of homeopathy.
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Agency 'lacks tools' to assess exorcist killer
Society: 29 Jun 11
Sweden's National Board of Forensic Medicine has admitted that it lacks the tools to fully assess the risk of relapse for the 52-year-old man convicted of killing his seven-year-old stepdaughter during an "exorcism".
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Some degrees less 'profitable': study
Education: 8 Jun 11
For a teacher, a librarian or a dental hygienist an academic degree may turn out be less profitable than having started working straight out of school, according to a new trade union study.
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Experts cast doubt on Bergman DNA claims
Society: 1 Jun 11
The Swedish experts who conducted the DNA tests used as a basis for the claim that deceased film director Ingmar Bergman was switched at birth, have disputed the conclusions.
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Ingmar Bergman 'switched at birth': report
Society: 26 May 11
Ingmar Bergman, the famed Swedish director who died in 2007, was not his mother's biological son, according to the results of an investigation by his niece published on Thursday.
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Activists held in 'Frankenfood' spuds raid
Science & Technology: 24 May 11
Police officers in northern Sweden took action on Tuesday against a group of Greenpeace activists occupying a barn while protesting against the planned introduction of genetically modified (GM) potatoes in the area.
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Greens: 'ban military arms exports'
Politics: 22 May 11
The Green Party's Congress has decided to push for a ban on the sales of arms for military purposes and will continue its position that Sweden cease all non-UN-led missions, amongst other decisions.
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New Swedish doc probed for missed cancer cases
Science & Technology: 19 May 11
Linköping University Hospital in central Sweden announced plans to review diagnoses by a doctor previously reported seven times for misdiagnosing cancer following revelations of similar errors at a Gothenburg hospital.
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SOS service under review after ambulance errors
National: 17 May 11
Sweden's emergency response service SOS Alarm has been put under review by the health board after a man died after being refused an ambulance and a series of other recent cases deemed to endanger the welfare of patients.
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Tax agency: DNA-test no proof of paternity
National: 10 May 11
The Swedish Tax Agency is refusing to recognise a DNA-test as proof that a man born in Sierra Leone is the father of a son, despite the National Board of Forensic Medicine assertion that it is 99.999 percent certain of his paternity.
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Surgery better for tackling prostate cancer: Swedish study
Science & Technology: 6 May 11
Swedish researchers have determined that surgery rather than "watchful waiting" may be a better option for treating prostate cancer, especially in younger patients.
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More Swedish children thought to suffer from narcolepsy
Science & Technology: 10 Apr 11
There may be many more children than previously thought who have suffered from narcolepsy as a side effect of the swine flu vaccine. The Swedish drug authority is reviewing the records of some 135 cases.
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Sweden launches first medicine vending machine
Society: 9 Apr 11
A grocery store near Gothenburg in western Sweden has started selling non-prescription drugs via a vending machine.
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Top marks for Stockholm School of Economics
Education: 23 Mar 11
Stockholm School of Economics has overtaken Karolinska Institutet in an annual ranking of Sweden's top 30 universities and colleges.
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Court strips licence of sex offender doc
Society: 18 Mar 11
A Swedish appeals court has revoked the licence of a Stockholm-area doctor who has previously been convicted of child sex offences and has admitted to substance abuse problems.
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Alcoholic doc allowed to keep practicing
Society: 5 Mar 11
Sweden's top medical ethics body has ruled that a Stockholm-area doctor's alcohol problems are no reason to strip him of his licence to practice medicine.
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Swedes evacuated to Malta from Libya
National: 4 Mar 11
A number of Swedes were successfully evacuated from Libya on Thursday after a Swedish plane was able to land in Tripoli following days of delays.
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Secret Nobel Prize documents stolen
Science & Technology: 23 Feb 11
Confidential information about possible winners for the Nobel Prize in Medicine has disappeared from a member of the committee.
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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.
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Doctor told patient to 'go back to Africa'
Society: 9 Feb 11
A woman from Borås in western Sweden has filed a discrimination complaint against a health clinic after she was told to go back to Africa and get help from a medicine man for pain in her legs.
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Autopsy delays threaten Swedish crime probes
Science & Technology: 7 Feb 11
Delays in the completion of autopsies in criminal investigations in Gothenburg in western Sweden could result in murderers going free.
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Three expelled in university scam
Education: 6 Feb 11
Gothenburg University has expelled three students after they were caught falsifying their exam entry grades. The students were taking courses in medicine, law and dentistry.
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Baby food can contain arsenic: Swedish study
Science & Technology: 27 Jan 11
Certain types of baby food may contain elevated levels of manganese, arsenic, and cadmium, a new Swedish study has shown.
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Warning over lead in coffee vending machines
Science & Technology: 26 Jan 11
Lead levels up to ten times above recommended levels have been found in the water from coffee vending machines in Sweden.
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Reducing stress fights more heart attacks: study
Science & Technology: 25 Jan 11
Behaviour therapy to help patients with heart disease learn to better manage stress can greatly reduce the risk of heart attacks in the long run, according to a new Swedish study.
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Swedish docs identify deadly legal drug
Science & Technology: 29 Dec 10
A team of Swedish forensic physicians have concluded that nine young people have died over the past year after having taken the legal, and widely available, drug Krypton.
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Sweden best for Nordic cancer care: study
Science & Technology: 22 Dec 10
Sweden offers the best care and chance of survival against cancer in the Nordic countries, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal.
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Swedish med students perform prof's autopsy
Education: 17 Dec 10
Medical students at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute (KI) set to perform their first-ever clinical autopsy were floored to discover that the corpse was none other than one of their former instructors.
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Malmö shooter may suffer from mental illness
National: 13 Dec 10
The 38-year-old man believed to be behind a string of shootings in Malmö in southern Sweden is now suspected for two more attempted murders and has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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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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Swedes name China most innovative in future
Science & Technology: 5 Dec 10
A new Swedish study has revealed that respondents from six countries believe that China will become the world's most innovative country in 10 years, followed by India and the US.
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Medicine Nobel winner bows out of ceremony
National: 4 Dec 10
The 2010 Nobel laureate in medicine will not attend the December 10th Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, the Nobel Foundation announced in a statement on Friday. China's ambassador to Sweden has also declined his invitation.
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Women who sunbathe live longer: study
Science & Technology: 2 Dec 10
Women who sunbathe regularly live longer and enjoy health benefits which outweigh the risk of skin cancer, according to research presented at the Swedish Society of Medicine's conference in Gothenburg.
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Swedish teen poisoned mum with mushrooms
Society: 2 Dec 10
A 19-year-old girl in Sundsvall in northern Sweden who is alleged to have poisoned her mother over a period of months with a combination of pills and mushrooms has been charged with assault.
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Swedish universities suffer enrollment drop
Education: 24 Nov 10
The number of first-time students at Sweden's universities declined in the autumn with session overall despite a rise in overseas student numbers ahead of the introduction of tuition fees next year.
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Court hikes penalty for car park killing
National: 24 Nov 10
A Swedish appeals court has increased the penalty for the 24-year-old man convicted of manslaughter in death of a 78-year-old woman who was assaulted during a parking lot dispute in southern Sweden in March.
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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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Sweden looks to fight superbugs with 'other people's poop'
Science & Technology: 8 Nov 10
The Swedish medical community is increasingly turning to what many patients consider a rather unappealing antidote for battling resistant 'superbug' bacteria.
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Sweden counts the cost of substance abuse
Society: 2 Nov 10
The cost of drug, alcohol and prescription medicine abuse amounts to 150 billion kronor ($22.4 billion) per annum, according to an ongoing government inquiry.
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Scania accused of Iraq oil-for-food bribes
Business & Money: 1 Nov 10
Managers from Swedish truckmaker Scania are expected to be charged for violating United Nations sanctions for their role in paying millions of kronor in bribes to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
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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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Sweden tops global rule of law ranking
Society: 15 Oct 10
Rule of law and government effectiveness in Sweden are among the best in the world, according to a new ranking.
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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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Alfred Nobel’s last will and testament
Lifestyle: 4 Oct 10
Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will.
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How 'merchant of death' Alfred Nobel became a champion of peace
Analysis & Opinion: 4 Oct 10
The legacy of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who made a fortune off the destructive power of dynamite, has become synonymous with peace, in large part due to a small twist of fate, writes the AFP's Marc Preel.
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Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
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