Fake Finnish physician fools patients and staff for months
A 23-year-old Finnish man has been arrested under suspicion of posing as a doctor in a medical facility, with the deception continuing over almost a y...
10,000 Danish children on Ritalin
A reliance on prescription medication and over-prescribing has been blamed by medical experts for the alarming rise in young Danes on Ritalin.
Swedish students giving unauthorised gynaecological exams
Suspicions have arisen around hospital culture in Sweden after it was revealed that several medical students had participated in a gynaecological exam...
Finland counts the cost of insomnia
Serious sleep disorders have been on the increase in recent years in Finland, with resultant costs associated with specialty care reaching an estimate...
Cabbage cure for cancer claims land quack in hot water
Twelve charges of fraud, in addition to sex offences, have led to the indictment of a would-be western Swedish practitioner.
Swedish suicide rate declines through increased anti-depressant use
Anti-depressants have been credited with saving hundreds of lives each year in Sweden as a new study shows the suicide rate has declined significantly...
Business innovation on the up in Iceland
Today, with the banks rather smaller than before, knowledge-based companies are again able to tap the talent which Iceland’s highly educated people ha...
11 people in Iceland infected with Pig Flu
11 people living in Iceland have been infected with Pig Flu (H1N1) or Swine Flu. One infected person is a 19 year old girl who just returned from Mex...