Beans and green vegetables such as broccoli and spinach which are high in folic acid help prevent pancreatic cancer but vitamin supplements do not help, a Swedish study published this week showed.
A Swedish mother of two is facing prosecution after it emerged that she had been married for nine years without informing her husband that she was HIV positive.
Swedish crime victims’ confidence in the police has fallen to a record low, according to a new survey on people’s attitudes towards the public services, but Justice Minister Thomas Bodström has dismissed the survey as "crackpot".
The first photographs of the H5N1 avian flu virus, taken by science photographer Lennart Nilsson, appeared in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyeter (DN) on Sunday, in what the newspaper said was a world exclusive.
Tests on a duck that died of bird flu in Sweden have shown that it was not infected by the strain of H5N1 that has killed more than 60 people in Asia, the Swedish press agency TT said Sunday, citing agricultural officials.
Many Swedes on low incomes are suffering from poor dental health because they cannot afford to go to the dentist, according to a new report commissioned by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, which calls for increased state subsidies for dental treatment.
Researchers from Sweden say that a handful of genes can determine how patients respond to breast cancer therapy, opening the door to methods that could make treatment more effective.
The source of an e-coli outbreak in western Sweden affecting 110 people has been traced to a vegetable grower outside of Vårberg, that had watered crops with contaminated water from a nearby stream.
A prisoner at a Swedish jail has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Now, all staff and prisoners at Tillberga open prison near Västerås who have had close contact with the infected man are to be tested for the disease.
Indoor smoking has been banned on the Ålandsfärjan ferry which links the Finnish autonomous island of Åland to Sweden, a first among ferry services in the Baltic Sea, the Åland tourist
Health officers from municipalities around the Sweden are going on holiday, leaving no replacements. Out of the 194 municipalities questioned by Swedish Radio, one third answered that they are left without inspectors during the holiday month. Meanwhile, the need for inspections, especially in the south of Sweden, has increased.
The Swedish government on Thursday said it would launch a program aimed at reversing the trend of rising numbers of suicide attempts among young people.
Both the mothers and fathers of babies with low birth weights are more likely than others to suffer from cardiovascular diseases, a Swedish study published on Monday showed.
Some medicines could go on sale in supermarkets next year, Swedish health minister Ylva Johansson has said, signalling a softening of the government’s line on keeping the Apoteket monopoly.
Hospital staff in the Jönköping area of Sweden will have to change clothes every time they go out for a smoke, according to new rules introduced by the local health authority.
From July 1st gay women couples in Sweden will have the right to fertility treatment in the form of assisted or artificial insemination at Swedish hospitals.
Göta Court of Appeal in Jönköping has increased the sentence handed down to the nurse held responsible for the death of a baby at a Kalmar hospital in May 2002. The three month old girl was given a drug overdose and died of poisoning.
