A team of researchers in Sweden has discovered a protein that stimulates the formation of fat cells, a finding that could potentially be used to treat obesity, the Karolinska Institute said Wednesday.
Hearing loss could be prevented with simple hormone treatment using oestrogen stimulating drugs already on the market today, the co-author of a new Swedish study on the topic said Tuesday.
Sweden's top medical university, the Karolinska Institute, has said it cannot expel a man accepted onto its medicine course who later turned out to be a convicted murderer. The man could now become licensed as a doctor in Sweden without a formal criminal check being carried out.
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), a virus spread by ticks which causes brain inflammation, can cause symptoms of schizophrenia, according to Swedish scientists.
A young Swedish man with an extremely rare deadly illness is to have an expensive treatment withdrawn, after doctors decided they could not justify the cost. Now, opposition politicians are calling for Stockholm's local health authority to act.
In the second mix up in less than a half year, funeral directors Fonus have cremated the wrong person. When the family and parents of a 4-year-old child opened the coffin during the funeral they were shocked to see the dead body of a baby.
Sweden's most frequent blood donor started to give blood 41 years ago. On Tuesday he's due to be 'tapped' for the 700th time and the occasion will be marked with flowers and a certificate at the Karolinska university hospital in Solna.
Karolinska University Hospital is cutting 280 million kronor from its budget next year, leading to fears that the quality of healthcare in the Stockholm region will suffer as a result.
More than half of the old archives at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm are missing. Now the university fears that a significant part of its history is lost.
