Auditoriums at the university and nearby street names named after racist researchers active in Sweden's eugenics movement will be renamed, announced the president of the Karolinska Institute (KI) Ole Petter Ottersen on Tuesday.
The Swedish Public Prosecution Authority is to re-examine manslaughter and related charges against former Karolinska surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, following a new appeal by plaintiffs.
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.
Living beside an airport can make your stomach bigger, a Swedish study revealed on Wednesday, due to an increase in stress hormones which can often expand the stomach.
Swedish universities continue to draw vast amounts of applicants with the number of prospective students seeking a third level education increasing for the seventh year in a row.
Five Swedish universities are among the top 200 globally, according to the latest Times Higher Education ranking, including one that cracked the top 40 for the first time since 2011.
A ranking of the best 500 universities around the world saw three institutions from Sweden inside the top hundred, with Stockholm's Karolinska Institute finishing the highest of the three at 44th place.
Men who take vitamin C supplements run a higher risk of developing kidney stones, according to a new Swedish study, with researchers suggesting that the "wisest thing might be not to take them at all."
A Stockholm-area professor charged with cutting off and eating his wife's lower lip has told investigators he planned to kill himself after the attack and that the decision to eat his wife's lip was made "spontaneously".
Over the next two to three years, 100,000 Swedish women will be recruited for a new national study of breast cancer led by a professor at Solna's Karolinska Institute.
Swedish researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute have determined that the attractiveness of a person is far more influenced by a good night's rest than previously thought.
Young criminals often feel worse mentally compared to other young people, new statistics show. Despite this there is no specialized forensic care for young people in Sweden.
