One of Sweden's top hospitals on Wednesday announced plans to lay off 600 medical staff as it attempts to plug a budget deficit of 1.6 billion kronor (approximately $167 million).
A number of academic articles discussing the risks of vaccines have been published by a person claiming to be from the prestigious Karolinska Institute – but the university says it has never heard of him.
Sweden's finance minister has called for a government investigation into reports of massive cost overruns and operational problems at Stockholm's New Karolinska Hospital.
Sweden’s reputed Karolinska Institute (KI) has tumbled in its international ranking, slipping a full 10 points year-on-year in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World Education Rankings 2018 which was released on Tuesday.
A Stockholm hospital has caused controversy by making a policy decision to not help some patients who have complications resulting from cosmetic surgery.
The Italian government has expressed alarm about the fate of a Stockholm-based academic detained in Tehran for nearly a year and reportedly sentenced to death for espionage.
Should doctors try their own medicine? One Swedish psychiatrist decided that they should, sampling antidepressants in an effort to better understand his patients and the thousands of people who take them in the country every day.
Karolinska University Hospital in Solna and Huddinge have been in crisis mode since Thursday morning due to overcrowding sparked by a sudden increase in patients seeking emergency care.
Sweden may have the image of being an exceptionally health-conscious nation, but according to World Health Organization (WHO) standards, more than half of its children are too inactive.
Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has been judged to have committed research misconduct by the Swedish organisation in charge of reviewing research, the Central Ethical Review Board (CEPN).
The former president of the Karolinska Institute (KI) university who lost her position on the panel that awards a Nobel Prize due to the Paolo Macchiarini scandal has fired back at critics.
Fire services were called to battle a blaze at the Karolinska Institute (KI) on Wednesday afternoon which saw pillars of thick, dark smoke rise high above the Solna suburb and northern Stockholm.
Two former presidents of the Karolinska Institute (KI) medical university have been dropped from the Nobel Assembly due to their roles in the controversy around celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
A new report has slammed the prestigious Karolinska Institute (KI) medical university for committing multiple errors in the case of Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, whose trachea operations in Sweden caused controversy when patients died.
Karolinska Institute has climbed four places to 44th in the annual Shanghai Ranking, while two other Swedish universities also feature in the global top 100.
Swedish prosecutors have informed the scandal-hit Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini that he is formally suspected on two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
The scientific community has expressed relief at the sacking of an Italian surgeon who compared himself to Doctor Frankenstein and now stands accused of using patients as guinea pigs.
The rector of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute resigned on Saturday as the medical university announced that it was reopening its investigation into research fraud by celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
