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

The Icelandic Heart Association has received a research grant from America’s National Institutes of Health. Read the full story

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

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

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

Serious sleep disorders have been on the increase in recent years in Finland, with resultant costs associated with specialty care reaching an estimated EUR 20 million annually. Read the full story

Twelve charges of fraud, in addition to sex offences, have led to the indictment of a would-be western Swedish practitioner. Read the full story

Building work on Reykjavik’s new Landspitali Hospital will likely start in the latter half of 2011 and continue until 2016, according to a statement of intent signed yesterday by representatives of the pension funds and the Icelandic government. Read the full story

Anti-depressants have been credited with saving hundreds of lives each year in Sweden as a new study shows the suicide rate has declined significantly. Read the full story

Today, with the banks rather smaller than before, knowledge-based companies are again able to tap the talent which Iceland’s highly educated people have to offer. Iceland’s economy may be struggling, but regular Icelanders are finding new ways to innovate. Innovation centres have been formed in many towns and the low value of the Icelandic krona helps exporting companies. Read the full story