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 Swedish researcher say surgery to help obese patients lose weight does not lower their risk of diabetes, unless they ask for help before the disease takes hold. https://www.thelocal.se/20130930/50524 Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:30:00 +0200 50524 A violent man who escaped from a psychiatric hospital last week was found by police on Monday, despite dramatically changing his appearance from the picture police had published. https://www.thelocal.se/20130813/49620 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:09:00 +0200 49620 A 54-year-old man with a history of violence is on the run in Sweden after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital on Friday, with police warning the public that he is very dangerous. https://www.thelocal.se/20130809/49560 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:50:00 +0200 49560 A diarrhoea epidemic at a hotel in Turkey has swept with it 19 Swedish children, as an as yet unidentified ailment has made more than 30 children ill at the resort. https://www.thelocal.se/20130730/49334 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:55:00 +0200 49334 A hospital has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after it chose against sending an ambulance to a woman with breathing problems who died hours later from blood clotting to her lungs. https://www.thelocal.se/20130725/49250 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:47:00 +0200 49250 A deceased patient who had no relatives was left in a room for days at the Örebro University Hospital before staff realized the body was still there. https://www.thelocal.se/20130619/48590 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:11:00 +0200 48590 A Swedish man has been left facing death after his doctor went on holiday, leaving a cancer diagnosis stranded in the computer system while the increasingly desperate patient fought for help elsewhere. https://www.thelocal.se/20130522/48056 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:34:00 +0200 48056 A newly opened health clinic in Ängelholm, south Sweden chose an unconventional marketing technique by recruiting patients among young revellers at a nightclub. https://www.thelocal.se/20130420/47456 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:55:00 +0200 47456 A Gothenburg hospital has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after a seriously ill patient was forced to wait eight hours in the emergency ward, only to then suffer a stroke and die. https://www.thelocal.se/20120926/43454 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:54:00 +0200 43454 An elderly man has sustained serious injuries after falling five metres from a hospital window in western Sweden on Monday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20120904/42992 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:37:00 +0200 42992 A doctor in Malmö in southern Sweden has been fired after punching and refusing to treat a female patient he thought was drunk. The matter has also been reported to police. https://www.thelocal.se/20120523/40990 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:51:00 +0200 40990 A mentally ill man was discovered tied down in his own bed with a sheet at a Carema-run nursing home in Stockholm earlier this month. https://www.thelocal.se/20120126/38742 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:00 +0100 38742 Three workers at a nursing home in Växjö in south central Sweden have been sacked after they were discovered to have placed bets on when one of the patients would die. https://www.thelocal.se/20110827/35804 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:37:00 +0200 35804 Overcrowding is becoming so serious in Swedish hospitals that in some cases patients are being forced to sleep and eat in rooms described as toilets. https://www.thelocal.se/20110804/35352 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:42:00 +0200 35352 Behaviour therapy to help patients with heart disease learn to better manage stress can greatly reduce the risk of heart attacks in the long run, according to a new Swedish study. https://www.thelocal.se/20110125/31622 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:30:00 +0100 31622