https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Swedish public health agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) is asking people in Stockholm to send them their poo as part of a new international project. https://www.thelocal.se/20161124/send-us-your-poo-stockholmers-are-told Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:12:08 +0100 send-us-your-poo-stockholmers-are-told Health workers in southern Sweden have warned that young Swedes are increasingly self-medicating against sexually transmitted diseases by buying antibiotics on the internet, in some cases to hide infidelity. https://www.thelocal.se/20130805/49448 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:36:00 +0200 49448 Dentists in Stockholm and the south are more than twice as likely to dole out antibiotics than their colleagues up north, prompting fears they are contributing to the rise in antibiotics-resistant bacteria. https://www.thelocal.se/20130423/47502 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:40:00 +0200 47502 Scientists have for the first time found a strain of gonorrhea bacteria that is resistant to treatment with antibiotics, reported Magnus Unemo, the Swedish scientist who isolated the strain, at a conference about sexually transmitted diseases in Ottawa, Canada. https://www.thelocal.se/20110711/34864 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:34:00 +0200 34864