Competitiveness
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Anyone with a university education will on average live almost five
years longer than those not finishing high school a new Swedish
research show.
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Concerns about
the spread of sexually transmitted diseases caused by unprotected sex
has led to an can lead to unpleasant surprises in Sweden.
Thursday, 23 August 2012
A situation
that has been described as worse that ever is happening in the Swedish
student housing sector. There is intense shortages of student housing
such that some expert are question Sweden's readiness for the future if
there could be no chance of properly training future leaders.
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Well - its out
there - nearly half of high school students in Västra Götaland and
Skåne in Sweden, believe that cancer is contagious. This is blow
to Sweden which position itself as one f the leaders in developed world
in providing basic knowledge especially in relation to healthy living
and improved quality of life.
Thursday, 16 August 2012
A record number
of Danish students choose to move a large part of their educational
studies to China as a means to capture the growing part of
international business.
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Drugs that have
been either recalled of banned from the Swedish medicine shops have
been found to be on sale - with their sales increasing faster
that expected.
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
There has
emerged a scandal at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark as a
Danish brain scientist, Milena Penkowa identified as a future Nobel
Prize winner and who has received millions of research prize money
seems to have had a research based on deliberate fraud, an expert panel
indict.
Monday, 06 August 2012
The idea that
limited sleep affect the health of humanity is not new and the
relationship between lack of enough sleep and obesity has been
documented in the past.
Wednesday, 01 August 2012
Sweden will
need over 100 000 new teachers in the coming years. But instead, more
teachers are leaving the profession because of what is being described
as "harsh working conditions and low wages."
Friday, 27 July 2012
Swedish
scientists are developing what could be called a ground breaking
approach in medicine which will see a model whereby the urge sensation
for alcohol consumption will be removed from the brain.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
A new image
from NASA has shown that in just four days there has been a large
Greenland ice melt in key areas, which jumped from 40 percent of the
ice sheet to 97 percent from 8 July.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
A new study has
show that eating too much fish can increase the risk of getting stroke.
This detracts from the advices given my diet experts that fish is good
for us,
Friday, 13 July 2012
Stress, boredom
and uncertainty in their futures means that more and more young people
in Sweden are being increased anti depressants.
Friday, 13 July 2012
Concerns about
the quality of education in Sweden increases as the number of vacant
teaching positions in Sweden also increases.
Tuesday, 10 July 2012A
new cancer risk alarm warns that there is higher possibility to be
affected by malignant melanoma in a costal region in Sweden such
as more Gothenburg as well as along the coastline than in the
municipalities interior, a new observatory study has identified.
Monday, 09 July 2012Drug
consumer and addicts are cautioned of contaminated heroine that could
leave their consumers stoned for life with anthrax. The alarm cane
after a 55-year-old man dies in Copenhagen of anthrax infection that
probably came from contaminated heroin.
Monday, 09 July 2012Hundreds of thousands of Swedes have type 2 diabetes without the disease being detected a new report say as part of a new study.
Monday, 02 July 2012
The pay received by Swedish teachers is lagging behind compared to other countries, a new report has said.
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Researchers at
Lund University, Sweden claim to have come a step closer to a move to
modifying the drug that could tackle the Parkinson's disease.
Protein-rich diet with few carbohydrates increases heart failure risks – Swedish- American Research
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
One of the
largest studies to date has shown that Protein-rich diet with few
carbohydrates increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, a new
Swedish -American study shows.
Monday, 25 June 2012
Religion Hours
in primary schools in Finland are poised to be can be reduced after
2016, a report in Finnish media hold. The lower number of religion
classes are part of the new distribution of lesson hours in basic
education.
Monday, 25 June 2012
More Swedish
people want their government to take more hawkish attitudes towards
attacking the problem of obesity in the country. They feel that though
the other Nordic countries such as Denmark are already taxing sugar and
butter, Swedish politicians are doing nothing.
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The dietary
guidelines given by the Swedish National Food Agency (NFA) or
Livsmedelsverkets has been determined in Sweden as the best pathway to
a better, healthy and longer life, But a recent study show that few
people follow it.
Friday, 15 June 2012
Researchers at
the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg have managed to implant
a blood vessel made from a patient’s own stem cells in a ten year old,
sick girl. One year after surgery she now is doing pretty fine making
the researchers to hope that this could be a method to assist patients
who need bypass surgery.
Improved physical activities at child hood reduced the risk for anxiety – Swedish study show
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Poor fitness in
adolescence doubles the risk of a severe depression in later life, a
new Swedish study on young people show adding that the effect last up
to 40 years.
Monday, 11 June 2012
The Nobel
Foundation is lowering the cash prize money for the Nobel Prizes awards
by twenty percent, an adjustment to meet pressures caused by budget
shortfall.
Friday, 08 June 2012
The
transplantation unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of
Miami, FL, USA has entered into a research project with the Allenex
group company AbSorber. The project is a pilot study evaluating the
endothelial cell cross match XM-ONE® in their Living Donor program.
Thursday, 07 June 2012
DiaGenic ASA
[OSL:DIAG] today announced that the first patient with MCI (Mild
Cognitive Impairment) was examined with [18F] Flutemetamol PET imaging
at University of Lund Sweden in the DiaGenic and GE Healthcare Research
Collaboration announced March 27th 2012.
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Swedish
scientists are one step closer to designing a breakthrough that could
provide cure for severe dementia, Alzheimer's disease. It is shown in a
results of a Swedish study published in the medical journal The Lancet
Neuology today.
Tuesday, 05 June 2012
Contrary to
nutritional recommendations that there should be as low as possible the
consumption of saturated fats, fewer Swedish people buy more real
saturated fatty products.
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Sexually
transited disease, particularly gonorrhoea is increasing especially
among women in the Stockholm area where the infection is increasing
most.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
International
student interest in Swedish higher education has decreased dramatically
among since tuition fees were introduced for all non-EU students.
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
A new research in Finland shows that growing up in the country can reduce the risk of allergies.
Friday, 04 May 2012
The differences
between the Swedish schools in terms of performance is increasing
rapidly, according to a report by the Swedish School Agency
(skolverket) will present today.
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Swedish self
critical attitude has means that much higher education courses in
Sweden is of poor quality. Just over one in five training programs fail
to meet required quality when those various academic programs were
examines.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The Swedish
people are getting too heavy for their knee joints. Today, many 45 year
olds use knee prosthesis due to being overweight or obese according to
news reports.
Saturday, 21 April 2012
The Norwegian
government wants to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, but its
employees tend to fly more with the view that more pollution is carried
out by air travel. With the Environment Ministry among the "worst", the
question now is how are they going to meet or even enforce their
targets?
Wednesday, 04 April 2012
As the Nordic
countries continue their quest of creating the best form of humans,
soon, a new DNA test for foetuses will be unvailed. This will assist
in determining whether the unborn baby has Down syndrome without the
risk of miscarriage via amniocentesis.
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
Sweden is to launch an international research, Science for Life lab, with a turnover of one billion a year.
Monday, 02 April 2012
More than one
in five college graduates in Sweden are out of work a year after
graduation. But the differences between them lie in the courses they
studies and that difference is great a new media report show.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Which are the
best universities in Sweden? Well, a business magazine, Focus, has
ranked universities here based on the interest of students own
preferences. That means big surprises in the list begging the question
if this is the a god model to to classify universities a country.
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Swedish defence
Minister, Sten Tolgfors, has been forced to resign what is described in
Swedish press “he departs on his own accord”, referring to the Swedish
prime minister's press secretary.
Monday, 26 March 2012
There is still
a vacuum in the a growing technological sector - lack good storage
capability for electricity generated from solar and wind power so that
it cane be used in a future time as needed for example, during nights
and still days.
Friday, 23 March 2012
People living
alone face an 80-percent higher risk of falling into depression
compared to those who live in the company of others, according to fresh
findings by Finnish researchers.
Friday, 23 March 2012
Although the
man was examined by at least 20 or maybe as many as 30 doctors they
failed to discover his cancer of the oesophagus until it was too late.
The man died a few weeks after it was discovered.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Summer, sun - and skin cancer, this is the routes that lead to more Swedes evolving to their death. Although
the Sun is a known risk factor leading to the development of skin
cancer, Swedes continue to sun bath much as before. This year, 500
Swedes died of malignant skin cancer, more than they die in traffic,
according to the Swedish Cancer Society.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
With new
methods, staff at the children healthcare centres in Sweden has been
able to carry out early detection of children with autism, research
carried out at Sahlgrenska Academy show.
Monday, 12 March 2012
A new treatment of malignant skin cancer tested in Sweden has shown impressively promising results.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Despite the fact that the Swedish students get funding from their
government funding body, CSN, that process of funding is becoming
unaffordable for the students.
Friday, 17 February 2012
Aalto University, Finland has been recently classified as the best
training institute for economics and degree programs in engineering,
according to investigation carried out in the country’s institutions
recently.
Wednesday, 08 February 2012
There is a move being taken in a medical community in Sweden in which a
method is being pioneered at studies at the University Hospital in
Uppsala in which electricity could be used to scatter dangerous caner
tumours.
Men with low fertility have less
risk of cancer – Swedish research show