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Health board fired after IT scandal

All the board members of the information technology subsidiary of Helse Sør-Øst, Norway's biggest regional health care provider, were fired on Wednesday by the chairman of Helse Sør-Øst, Ann...

Israel objects to any circumcision ban

The Israeli Embassy in Oslo is criticizing a decision by Norway's conservative Progress Party over the weekend to support any proposed ban on circumcision...

‘Lommedalen’ trial postponed

The state's case against a mother who's charged with failing to avert her daughter's death by starvation was postponed for a week on Tuesday,...

Lommedalen tragedy unfolds in court

More than 70 people will be testifying in a courtroom in Gjøvik over the next four weeks, as the mother of a 13-year-old girl...

Pharmacy prices set off protests

Norwegians have long had to deal with food and beverage prices that are as much as double those in neighbouring Sweden. Now the spotlight...

Elderly drown their sorrows in drinks

As Norway enters what many refer to as its traditional stille uke (quiet week) tied to the Easter holidays, the week can be dangerously...

Researchers battle multi-resistant bacteria

Researchers at the Universitiy of Oslo may have found a method that can contribute to the battle against multi-resistant bacteria, Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported...

Abortion rate declines again

A steady decline in the number of abortions performed in Norway continued last year, and it’s now well below the number in 1979, when...

Norway helps offset Trump’s abortion cuts

Both a Norwegian government minister and the leader of a Parliamentary committee were in Brussels this week to take part in a conference that attracted 40...

Rights sold to arthritis medicine

A Japanese pharmaceutical company has bought the rights to commercialize a new medicine developed by Norwegian researcher and doctor Anita Kåss that's showed promising results...
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