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 doctor who was cleared in the infant euthanasia case in October last year has reported her colleagues to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) for giving what turned out to be a fatal dose of the anesthetic thiopental to the prematurely born and brain damaged baby. https://www.thelocal.se/20120329/39960 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:14:00 +0200 39960 A police officer who deprived a 57-year-old anesthesiologist of sleep while she was in custody in connection with a high profile case of the death of a prematurely born baby girl is now suspected of professional misconduct. https://www.thelocal.se/20120125/38724 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:44:00 +0100 38724 Police officers who investigated a doctor accused of the manslaughter of a baby at a Stockholm hospital last year are now themselves facing a misconduct probe over the way they handled the doctor after she was arrested. https://www.thelocal.se/20120105/38358 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0100 38358 A paediatrician charged for having caused the death of a newborn baby at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in 2008 has been acquitted by the Solna District Court in a case closely monitored by the Swedish medical community. https://www.thelocal.se/20111021/36884 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:13:00 +0200 36884 A network of Swedish MPs has been formed to push for a legalisation of assisted suicide with the group's founder comparing the issue to the abortion debate in the 1970s. https://www.thelocal.se/20111011/36684 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:04:00 +0200 36684 The trial against a Swedish doctor accused of infant euthanasia entered its second day on Thursday with the mother of the baby describing the care received as "beneath contempt". https://www.thelocal.se/20110915/36158 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:57:00 +0200 36158 A 32-year-old woman who was completely paralysed and had been on life support since she was six, died on Wednesday after her respirator was unplugged, in Sweden's first case of euthanasia, a Stockholm hospital said. https://www.thelocal.se/20100506/26480 Thu, 06 May 2010 09:45:00 +0200 26480 The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has advised that a 32-year-old woman who is completely paralysed and has been on a respirator since she was six has the right to decide to terminate her treatment. https://www.thelocal.se/20100426/26290 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:36:00 +0200 26290 A 70-year-old Swedish man suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease, or ALS, has taken his own life after demanding the right to assisted suicide in a letter to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100324/25682 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:14:00 +0100 25682 A 31-year-old woman who is completely paralysed and has been on a respirator since she was six, has demanded the right to die in a letter to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen). https://www.thelocal.se/20100318/25596 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:35:00 +0100 25596 Every third doctor in Sweden supports the legalization of euthanasia, according to a new survey presented at the ongoing "Global Health in a new world" conference in Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20081129/16016 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:44:00 +0100 16016 Swedish medical experts have cleared the way for the introduction of passive euthanasia. https://www.thelocal.se/20070404/6909 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:49:00 +0200 6909