Women who breastfeed will not do their children any harm by drinking a glass or two of wine once or twice a week, according to new recommendations from Sweden's National Food Administration (Livsmedelsverket).
Hearing loss could be prevented with simple hormone treatment using oestrogen stimulating drugs already on the market today, the co-author of a new Swedish study on the topic said Tuesday.
The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) wants to add a vaccine preventing the human papillomavirus (HPV) to Sweden’s general pediatric vaccination program in order to reduce future cases of cervical cancer.
The number of new HIV infections jumped 20 percent in Sweden last year, health officials said Tuesday, quoting preliminary figures that could signal altered attitudes towards the disease that causes AIDS.
A Swedish multiple sclerosis patient is just days away from the start of a one-year jail term after she was convicted on narcotics charges for growing and distributing cannabis.
An EU-wide warning has been issued by Italy over Swedish gingerbread, a Christmas speciality. The Italians claim the gingerbread, or pepparkakor as the biscuits are known, contain higher levels of the toxin coumarin than permitted under European rules.
Sweden's welfare board has criticized a hospital in Stockholm after a 40-year-old woman caught fire during a hemorrhoid operation, Aftonbladet reports.
The Swedish government has said it wants to broaden the geographical scope of the national healthcare system to enable Swedes to receive subsidized medical treatment in the rest of the European Union.
HIV infection rates in Sweden have risen in 2007, according to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control. Some 420 new cases have been reported in the year up to October, an increase from 312 during the same period in 2006.
The number of regular smokers in Sweden has fallen again to a record low, according to a new report into the nation's drug use. People are also drinking less than before, the survey claims.
Six out of ten local authorities in Sweden do not employ speech therapists for stroke patients, according to figures from the Swedish National Stroke Register.
Austria has the best healthcare system in Europe, while Sweden has slumped from 4th to 6th place, according to a report released on Monday by Health Consumer Powerhouse, a healthcare information company.
Doctors in Sweden are worried about the rising number of incidences of a new 'superbug'. The ESBL bacteria is spreading faster than better-known superbug MRSA.
The year's first cases of influenza in Sweden have been reported, after a Swede returning from holiday in Australia passed on the virus to a doctor and a nurse. If Sweden follows the pattern seen in the southern hemisphere, it could be in for a tough flu season, experts say.
For fast action pain relief, don't use fruit drinks to wash down your pain killers. That is the advice of Professor Lars Edvinsson from Lund University Hospital, who has found that the healing effects of paracetamol are much greater if the medicine is washed down with water.
