No ban on circumcision in Norway
In a letter to the Simon Wiesenthal Center sent last week, Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende gave his assurances that circumcision will not be b...
Iceland hooked on anti-depressants
A new report released by the OECD has shown that Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of anti-depressants per capita. One in ten Icelander now take...
STD rates rise in Greenland
Data collected by a Greenland newspaper shows there has been a dramatic increase in the number of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the country. ...
Iceland’s fresh meat imports restrictions breach law according to EFTA
Iceland’s restrictions on fresh meat imports from European Economic Area (EEA) states breach the law, claims the European Fair Trade Association (EFTA...
Fewer Finns taking up smoking
Fewer Finns are taking up smoking than in previous years, according to a recent survey. Research showed that smoking is less prevalent among men of wo...
Happy birthday to Sweden’s oldest man
Sweden’s oldest man, Eric Gottfrid Andersson, turned 108 at the weekend and puts his long life down to eating healthy food and not smoking. Andersson,...
Swedish group wants to improve sex education
The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education has said sex education should be part of all school subjects, even religious studies, following a Chri...
More bad news for Iceland health tourism initiatives
Chinese investors CSST International’s plans to pay 44m euros towards creating a health village in the southern Iceland village of Flúðir have collaps...