Several Swedish cities and municipalities have warned of a blood shortage, due to a combination of factors including summer holidays and recent knife attacks.
A Swedish court has ruled that Västerbotten County must share its blood-donor registry in order for researchers to track down donors whose blood may be linked to a lung condition that can be fatal.
Soon parents may be able to perform a simple blood test to determine whether or not their children have autism, thanks to new findings from Swedish researchers.
The 22-year-old animal rights activist, suspected of arson and of writing threatening letters, sometimes penned in his own blood, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
A 21-year-old animal rights activist is being prosecuted at the Gothenburg District Court, suspected of arson and writing threat letters, sometimes in his own blood.
Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg in western Sweden has launch a massive social media campaign to encourage blood donors to help meet a shortage.
A Swedish football striker was attacked by a gang of women following a dispute over a food order at a Gothenburg café early on Sunday morning, according to a media report on Monday.
A stage guard had part of his ear bitten off during a concert by US hard-rock legends W.A.S.P. in Örebro, Sweden on Friday after he was attacked by a drunk 40-year-old man.
A campaign launched with the intention of attracting blood donors in Gothenburg has been scrapped after recipients reacted in horror to its "threatening and frightening" message.
Gay men in Sweden are to be permitted to donate blood provided they have not had sex with another man for at least a year, according to a new health board ruling.
Swedish journalist Donald Boström told an angry audience in Israel on Monday that he stood by his calls for an investigation into allegations that the Israeli army harvested the organs of dead Palestinians.
Dozens of Israeli protesters on Sunday expressed their anger at the arrival of controversial Swedish journalist Donald Boström, who accused Israeli soldiers of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians.
The risk of being infected by HIV may be determined by the presence of a molecule in a person’s blood cells, according to a discovery made by Swedish scientists working as part of an international research team.
Blood transfusions from donors who later go on to develop cancer do not increase the risk of the recipient developing cancer, a new Swedish-Danish study has shown.
Sweden's most frequent blood donor started to give blood 41 years ago. On Tuesday he's due to be 'tapped' for the 700th time and the occasion will be marked with flowers and a certificate at the Karolinska university hospital in Solna.
