Sweden's Public Health Agency presented new screen time guidelines on Monday, which among other things recommend a total ban on screens for under-2s, as well as halving the average screen time for teenagers.
Health authorities warned Friday that Europe must be ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox that has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Although the risk for the general population in the EU and EEA is currently considered low, the European Union health agency urged its member states to get ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox.
Further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe are likely, after Sweden announced the first such infection outside Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned.
Sweden on Thursday announced the first case outside Africa of the more dangerous variant of mpox, which the WHO has declared a global public health emergency.
English speakers who don’t speak Swedish can currently only donate blood in Stockholm, but The Local has been told of plans to roll out the service to Gothenburg and Uppsala in the year ahead.
Around 2,000 nurses, midwives, biomedical analysts and radiology nurses went on strike in Sweden at 11am on Tuesday, demanding higher wages and less punishing schedules.
The Swedish Association of Health Professionals is threatening to add another 1,900 of its members and another 170 workplaces to its healthcare strike due to break out in June.
Sweden is seeing "an explosion" of ADHD cases among children that has put it far above the global average, the government said Friday as it ordered a review to find out why.
The Swedish Association of Health Professionals is threatening to scale up an overtime ban to an all-out strike at some of Sweden's biggest hospitals from June 4th.
Sweden's two most well-known convenience store chains, Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven, plan to completely remove cigarettes from their shelves in the long run.
Sweden's parliament on Wednesday passed a controversial law lowering the minimum age to legally change gender from 18 to 16 and making it easier to get access to surgical interventions.
They say nothing in life can be certain apart from death and taxes, but if there's a third certainty, it must be Swedish bureaucracy. Here's how to register a death, arrange a funeral and figure out who inherits what.
A major Swedish pharmacy chain is banning sales of certain skincare products to people under the age of 15, in order to combat unhealthy beauty standards for youth.
The European Union health agency on Thursday reported a "troubling" surge in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across Europe, which could be just "the tip of the iceberg".
The Scandinavian countries have an international reputation for excellent healthcare, so it might not be surprising that several hospitals from the region have been ranked among the world's "best".
Stockholm's regional authority is stepping up security after one of the major hospitals in the Swedish capital was targeted by unknown perpetrators in a cyber attack.
Rising rates of measles in multiple European countries, including the UK, have led Sweden's Public Health Agency to recommend travellers to get vaccinated if planning a trip.
Research samples collected over decades at a prestigious Swedish medical university have been destroyed after a freezer malfunctioned over the Christmas holidays, the university said on Monday.
