Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sweden passes 10,000 virus deaths
Sweden on Thursday said it had passed 10,000 deaths associated with COVID-19, as it reported a record number of 351 deaths in a day.
Jan 14, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sweden blocks travel from Denmark over virus fears
Sweden on Monday announced it was barring travellers from neighbouring Denmark after a new mutation of the coronavirus, first seen in the UK, was reported in the country.
Dec 21, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sweden and Japan are paying the price for COVID-19 exceptionalism
One of the most striking things about the COVID-19 pandemic is just how dramatically different the responses have been from country to country. In early 2020, when little was known about the virus, this difference was unsurprising. ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Health
One in five doctors in Sweden has a doctor parent
One in five doctors in Sweden has a parent who is also trained in medicine, more than triple the proportion for doctors born three decades earlier, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
Dec 16, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
PM: Sweden's health officials misjudged virus resurgence
Health officials in Sweden, which opted not to respond to the first wave of COVID-19 with a national lockdown, misjudged the power of the virus's resurgence, the country's prime minister said Tuesday, and an independent commission ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sweden sees deadliest November since Spanish flu
Sweden's statistics agency said Monday that the country suffered the highest number of deaths in November since the Spanish flu a century ago, as it battles a second coronavirus wave.
Dec 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Diabetes and obesity risk factors for severe malaria
Infectious diseases doctor Katja Wyss's thesis is the product of many years' research on malaria in Sweden. With clinical data from almost 3,000 diagnosed cases over a twenty-year time span, Katja Wyss at Karolinska Institutet's ...
Dec 8, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sweden moves high school classes online as virus cases surge
Sweden's high schools will close for a month and students will instead take classes online, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced Thursday as coronavirus cases soar in the country.
Dec 3, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sweden to ban sale of alcohol after 10pm to curb COVID-19
Sweden's prime minister said Wednesday his government will present a law proposal that would ban nationwide the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m. in bars, restaurants and night clubs from Nov. 20 in an effort to curb the spread ...
Nov 12, 2020
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Radiology & Imaging
Mammography screening saves lives also in older age
Mammography, which is an X-ray picture of the breast, is efficient also for women over the age of 70. For women invited to regular mammography screening over the age of 70, the reduction in mortality rate was significant. ...
Oct 20, 2020
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