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Embattled boss won’t go on leave

Bente Mikkelsen, head of the embattled state health agency that's pushing through a controversial hospital reorganization in Oslo, has dropped plans to take off...

Unusual baby boom baffles experts

There's been a major boom in the numbers of babies born in Oslo and Akershus County before their mothers get to a hospital. Researchers...

Trusted adviser tackles ‘toughest’ job

One of the most trusted advisers to embattled Health Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen was taking over one of the Norwegian health sector's toughest jobs on...

Another hospital protest in Oslo

Demonstrators gathered in front of the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo once again this week, to protest the controversial merger of the capital's largest hospitals....

Norway tops in cancer survival

After months of crisis headlines about Norwegian hospitals comes some good news: Norwegian cancer patients have among the highest survival rates in the world....

United opposition demands hospital merger ‘time-out’

The leaders of the four main opposition parties in parliament have called for a "time-out" in the highly painful process of merging Oslo's biggest...

More trouble for Oslo’s biggest hospital

Oslo University Hospital, already struggling with a highly controversial restructuring that's pitted staff against administrators and politicians, now faces a deteriorating physical plant as...

State seeks to cure hospital crisis

Health Minister Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen has made another attempt to cure what's widely viewed as an extremely unhealthy merger of Oslo's major hospitals. She's brought...

Norwegians dropping visits to the dentist

The fear of dentists is called "tannlegeskrekk" in Norwegian, and it seems that either many are infected with it, or they're not willing to...

Sparks fly over new anti-smoking proposals

Norway's left-center government wants to further crack down on smoking and is proposing a string of measures to tighten existing laws. Smokers and even...
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