Farmers' use of certain pesticides can cause asthma, a breakthrough study presented in Stockholm at an international conference on respiratory diseases showed.
Sweden, Finland and Norway have more cancer survivors than any other country in Europe, according to a new study of cancer care in 23 European countries.
A doctor in Lund has been criticized by the Swedish health board for over-prescribing Flunitrazepam - a drug formerly marketed as Rohypnol - to his Roma patients.
Women born in countries outside Sweden suffer more complications when giving birth than Swedish women. Eva Robertson, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute, says that the problem stems from discrimination in the healthcare system.
A man who had been suffering from lung cancer has died after accidentally being administered ten times the recommended dose of morphine at a hospice in Västerås.
Being granted sick leave for symptoms of 'burnout' could soon become much harder in Sweden due to new national guidelines to come into effect in October.
Nurses given specialist training by Örebro county council are being forced to work for the local authority's own health service for three year's after the completion of their education. If they choose to leave they are required to pay back the county council for part of their education.
A married couple in Kinda in the south east of Sweden have lost a court bid to retain their current level of welfare payments. For almost ten years the husband and wife pair have asserted their right to opt out of the rat race and live on a combination of state support and their own crops.
The number of cases of syphilis infection in Sweden has risen by 75 percent in just one year, leading doctors to fear a local outbreak. The rise is due largely to a large increase in syphilis transmitted through gay sex among men in the Stockholm area. Chlamydia is also on the rise, new statistics show.
<b>While recently awaiting the arrival of a new baby, Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius found herself not so much restricted by her bulging belly as by the opinions of those around her - especially when it came to alcohol consumption.</b>
Hillary Clinton has been awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine by Gothenburg University . In a statement, the Sahlgrenska Academy pointed to her work for vulnerable children and improved healthcare.
A number of dogs have been found to carry the MRSA superbug, an infection that is widespread in hospital settings. As the bacteria can be passed from animals to humans, the National Veterinary Institute (Statens veterinärmedicinska anstalt - SVA) has described the development as a public health problem.
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.
Snus, the popular Swedish oral snuff, causes no risk of lung or mouth cancer but is linked to pancreatic cancer, according to a study released on Wednesday that sparked an appeal for the product to be named a safer alternative to cigarettes.
The number of women dying as a result of cirrhosis of the liver has increased by 25 percent in six years. There has been a ten percent increase in male fatalities over the same period, according to the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs.
Four-year-old girls today are six times more likely to be overweight than thir counterparts twenty years ago. A new Swedish study has shown an alarming increase in the number of children who are overweight and obese.
The PSA test used to trace prostate cancer is incapable of predicting whether a tumour is malignant or benign. The findings of a new Swedish study from Karolinska Institutet are to be published in the UK on Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
