Swedish genetics professor Urban Lendahl, has announced his resignation from two prestigious Nobel bodies after it became clear he is likely to be involved in an investigation regarding the celebrity surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.
Sweden's Karolinska Institute has said it will not allow controversial Italian star surgeon Paolo Macchiarini to stay when his contract expires later this year.
Sweden's prestigious Karolinska University Hospital has opened an investigation into a prominent surgeon whose controversial procedures have caused a stir worldwide.
Being as tall as people in the Nordics is linked to a higher risk of cancer, especially for women, according to fresh research drawn from physical and health data for five million people in Sweden.
An estimated 1.3 billion kronor of taxpayers money set aside to build Sweden's most advanced hospital is alleged to have been channelled to a tax haven in Luxembourg by the companies behind the project.
An expectant mother's use of cannabis during pregnancy can prevent a child from forming certain connections in the brain while growing in the womb, a Sweden-based researcher has revealed.
A new study from the Karolinska Institute near Stockholm has found that it's all down to chance as to whether hereditary illness comes from your mother or father, revelations that may aid cancer research.
A Swedish woman who was made infertile due to cancer treatment made history on Monday morning when she gave birth to a baby girl following an ovarian transplant, the first successful birth of its kind in Sweden.
Swedish scientists trying to cure "Walking Corpse Syndrome" have confirmed a link between a household medicine and Cotard's syndrome, a rare condition that makes sufferers feel like they are dead.
As many as one in seven new dads in Stockholm may suffer depression after they become fathers, but with the system geared to identifying struggling mums, male sufferers slip through the cracks, shows new research.
The neonatal clinic at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna was reopened on Friday after having been closed for several days following the discovery that six children were infected with multi-resistant bacteria.
People suffering from stress and a sense of hopelessness while middle-aged run up to three times the risk of developing dementia later in life, according to a new study from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Patients waiting at accident and emergency (ER) units at Karolinska hospital in Stockholm regularly wait longer than the four-hour stipulated limit, a new media report has shown, with one man forced to wait for 44 hours this summer.
Lund University in southern Sweden is the country's best university, according to a new ranking, which saw nearly all Swedish universities climb in comparison to last year.
The human brain continues to regenerate itself, producing cells through adult life, according to a new study by researchers at Karolinska Institut in Stockholm.
A girl born without a windpipe has become the youngest patient in the world to receive a bio-engineered organ after doctors implanted her with a special tube grown from her own stem cells in a surgery led by a Karolinska Institute professor.
Swedish researchers may have found a way to determine if women who have survived breast cancer risk relapsing, according to a study published on Tuesday.
A surge of patients suffering from infectious diseases has forced Karolinska University Hospital near Stockholm to postpone planned operations due to a lack of available nurses and beds.
Motorcycle drivers who have a criminal record are twice as likely to get into accidents on the road than their law-abiding peers, a new Swedish study has found.
The assembly that awards the Nobel Medicine Prize said on Friday it had never heard of a stem cell researcher who has filed a US lawsuit against it for allegedly crediting his work to this year's laureates.
A stem cell research pioneer is suing the Swedish assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims it made about this year's winners, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Criminals who take drugs to treat their attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reduce their risk of re-offending by more than 30 percent, a new Swedish study shows.
