Posted on 30 August 2010.
The Danish Nurses’ Organisation has had an online advertisement yanked, after the images of randy medics using unconventional methods to revive patients were deemed too racy. The nurses’ union pulled the commercial from the YouTube website, calling the ad a “slip-up” and saying it “went over the line”. Read the full story
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Posted on 27 August 2010.
The two finalists of a sauna endurance competition in Finland, one of which was killed and another who is still in hospital, were allowed to take part without doctors’ certificates, according to reports. Terhi Makiniemi, deputy chief of staff at the City of Heinola – where the Sauna World Championships were held early this month – told newspaper Ita-Hame that all contestants submitted medical certificates except the two finalists. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 May 2010.
Residents of the Faroe Islands are suffering in far greater numbers from rare genetic illnesses than the rest of the world, according to new research. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 May 2010.
A mother has been fined for having her son circumcised as the legislation row in Finland remains unaddressed. Read the full story
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Posted on 07 April 2010.
The Swedish Medical Products Agency has banned the use of three brands of breast implants amid fears that the silicone inserts could explode. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 January 2010.
A 23-year-old Finnish man has been arrested under suspicion of posing as a doctor in a medical facility, with the deception continuing over almost a year. Read the full story
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Posted on 11 January 2010.
The Icelandic Heart Association has received a research grant from America’s National Institutes of Health. Read the full story
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Posted on 11 January 2010.
A reliance on prescription medication and over-prescribing has been blamed by medical experts for the alarming rise in young Danes on Ritalin. Read the full story
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Posted on 05 January 2010.
Suspicions have arisen around hospital culture in Sweden after it was revealed that several medical students had participated in a gynaecological examination without the woman’s consent. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 December 2009.
Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, Medical Manager at Iceland’s Akureyri Hospital, said at a meeting with Greenlandic counterparts and the country’s Minister for Health that Iceland should send doctors to Greenland. Read the full story
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Iceland government shake up confirmed, Dutch war games company happy
Iceland’s ‘favourite comedy show’ saved at the last minute
Details of alleged Norwegian bomb plot revealed
Boeing Dreamliner in Iceland for testing
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Danish-caught pirates released on lack of evidence
Cabinet reshuffle for Icelandic government
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