Tag: health care

Measles confirmed in Oslo

A college student in Oslo who recently returned from a trip to the Middle East has been confirmed to be ill with the measles....

Court rules that nurses were exploited

Seven nurses from the Philippines have prevailed in a labour exploitation case brought on their behalf against Oslo University Hospital and a Norwegian couple...

Ebola alarm called off in Bergen

Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen called in extra security and specially trained personnel over the weekend, after suspicions rose that one of its patients...

Giant hospital plans scrapped

State health care officials have scrapped plans to built a giant new hospital in Oslo that would further merge several existing hospitals and cost...

Norway tops in treating lymphoma

Norwegian doctors and hospitals have managed to dramatically improve the survival rate of patients diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer that affects the immune system....

Circumcision to be offered nationwide

Despite widespread opposition to circumcising baby boys without a medical reason, Norwegian hospitals will all soon start offering the surgical procedure nationwide. A new law that...

Gavi ‘grateful’ for Norway’s vaccination funding

Norway was being widely praised this week after Prime Minister Erna Solberg committed to increase funding to the international vaccine alliance Gavi by fully 56...

Doctors defy new circumcision law

Since January 1st, all of Norway's state-run hospitals have become legally obliged to offer circumcision of newborn baby boys. A majority of doctors all over the...

Activist Stordalen begins recovery

Environmental and nutrition activist Gunhild Stordalen, diagnosed last fall with a life-threatening disease, has been released from the hospital in the Netherlands where she's...

Hospital battle heads into court

After years of bitter controversy and rivalry between two central Norwegian cities, Health Minister Bent Høie named Molde on Friday as the site of a...
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