Vaccination
Covid vaccine acceptance rises in some countries: study
Willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine is on the rise compared to last year, a survey of six industrialised countries published on Monday showed.
Mar 1, 2021
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Cardiology
Real world data on hospital readmissions of patients with heart failure
In an analysis of information on 448 patients with heart failure who were discharged from a hospital in Sweden, 20.3% of patients were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, and 60.9% were readmitted within 1 year. The ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Health
Sweden ahead of Denmark in the public sector organic food race
Sweden takes first, Denmark second and Norway lags at the bottom when it comes to how much organic food is served in canteens, kindergartens and other public sector workplaces across the three Nordic nations. This, according ...
Feb 4, 2021
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Genetics
New gene variant linked to stroke
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have identified a gene variant that can cause cerebral small vessel disease and stroke. The study is published in Neurology Genetics.
Jan 28, 2021
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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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