New EU data has revealed that the residents of Stockholm and its surrounding region live longer lives than people in any other region in the Nordics with the exception of Åland. What's the reason for the difference?
Sweden is expected to become Europe's first smoke-free country thanks to the popularity of 'snus'. But some are worried that the moist tobacco is a fairytale too good to be true.
After emerging as the figurehead of Sweden's controversial, less strict Covid-19 strategy, former state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell reflects on his country's path in a new book published on November 3rd.
In a Swedish nursing home, residents wait for a bus that never comes. Staff have installed a fake bus stop in a hallway to ease the minds of anxious dementia patients eager to leave.
Katalin Karikó of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.
The World Health Organization's European office warned on Tuesday the risk of Covid-19 has not gone away, saying it was
still responsible for nearly 1,000 deaths a week in the region. And the real figure may be much higher.
Danes, Swedes and Norwegians should eat almost no red meat, cut out alcohol completely, and load up on whole grains, fruit, vegetables and fish, according to new Nordic recommendations.
Once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery, former Karolinska surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was on Wednesday sentenced to two and a half years in prison for aggravated assault on patients.
Sweden is on the brink of becoming the world's first smoke-free country, defined as a country where less than 5 percent of the population smokes daily. This puts it 17 years ahead of the EU's 2040 target. How did this happen?
A British man has told The Local he will continue the fight to move his paralysed Swedish wife home to Sweden, despite red tape blocking her access to Swedish healthcare.
Sweden has one of the most conservative attitudes to narcotic use in the world. But as recently as the 1940s, the use of amphetamines was not only legal but encouraged. We spoke to Johan Wicklén, author of a book on Sweden's zero-tolerance policy.
Gender inequality in workplaces, household chores and healthcare prejudices are all factors behind Sweden's gender gap in stress-related sick leave, according to experts.
Top level Swedish football players -- except for goalkeepers -- were significantly more likely to develop dementia than the general public over the last century, according to a large Swedish study published on Friday.
A graphic published by the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper last week claimed that Sweden had the lowest excess mortality of all EU and Nordic counties between the start of 2020 and the end of 2022. We looked into whether this extraordinary claim is true (and it is, sort of).
Elderly residents at a care home in southern Sweden - some aged as old as 90 - are being given 'pleasure baskets' filled with lubricants, dildos, penis pumps and penis rings to spice up their sex life, AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert reports.
Sweden's health watchdog has sounded the alarm over the "terrible, completely unacceptable" state of hospital care, with patients left for hours in their own urine and faeces, not given sufficient food or water, and sent home despite being in urgent need of treatment.
Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.
Sweden's public health agency has warned that a new winter wave of Covid infections could end up with a similar number of patients being treated in hospital as there were at the peak of the Omicron wave last winter.
The currently mild weather is favourable for ticks. As a result, more cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) are expected this winter, the Swedish Public Health Agency (FHM) warns.
