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            <title><![CDATA[Twin study finds screen time alone does not explain links to young people’s mental health]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Do young people with mental health problems spend more time in front of screens? Or do young people who are feeling unwell seek out screens? A Swedish study has found new pieces of the puzzle in understanding how children and young people are affected by screen use.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Study Finds Not All 82 Human Remains Returned by Karolinska Institute Came From Finland]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Karolinska Institute (KI) handed over 82 remains of alleged Finnish origin to Finland in 2024. A new study now shows that not all the skulls originated in Finland.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:46:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[HPV Vaccination Before Pregnancy Linked to Lower Risk of Premature Birth, Study Finds]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[HPV vaccination appears to provide benefits beyond cancer protection. Women vaccinated before pregnancy appear to have a lower risk of giving birth prematurely. The protection is particularly strong among those vaccinated before age 17, says Jiayao Lei, one of the researchers behind a new study.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:44:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winning optogenetics helps some blind patients regain partial vision in study]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Optogenetics has been used to partially restore vision in blind people, and new results show that the Nobel Prize-winning technique works.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spain’s egg-freezing offer for players draws support from Amanda Ilestedt, but experts warn it’s no guarantee of children]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Spanish Football Federation is paying its players to freeze their eggs. Sweden’s Amanda Ilestedt thinks it’s a good way to avoid feeling stressed about the biological clock. But researcher Angelica Lindén Hirschberg warns against a false sense of security.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:30:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quantum computers, energy-efficient displays among contenders for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Optical atomic clocks, displays or metamaterials are among the areas being tipped as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Sweden’s national science academy) prepares to announce this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Three Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Discoveries That Let Researchers Control Cells With Light]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their research has made it possible to control and monitor individual cells using light.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:33:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish universities slip in global rankings as Tsinghua rises]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Swedish universities are falling, while a Chinese university is rising in the Times Higher Education global rankings.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:17:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Experts warn of risks from taking dietary supplements without need]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Supplements with extra magnesium, iron or vitamins are heavily promoted in advertisements and on social media. But taking supplements without needing them can be risky. At best, you'll just pee them out, but it could be much worse than that, says pharmacist Annika Svedberg.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:35:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Danish study finds estrogen patches, gels and sprays safer than tablets for menopausal symptoms]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Women with menopausal symptoms who take hormone therapy in tablet form are at increased risk of blood clots. Those who use patches, gels and sprays do not face the same risk, according to a Danish study.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:53:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anders Hansen says loneliness can be as dangerous as smoking in new SVT series]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Anders Hansen's new SVT series is about the importance of the group and the risk of loneliness. Some researchers believe it is as dangerous as smoking, he says ahead of the series' September 15 premiere.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:03:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Karolinska Institute researchers digitize scents and send them to a screen]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Karolinska Institute have succeeded in digitizing scents - and sending them to a screen, according to P4 Stockholm.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:39:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish AI outperforms doctors in spotting heart attack risk on X-rays]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new Swedish AI model has been shown to be better than human expertise at interpreting X-ray images and thus identifying people at risk of suffering a heart attack. For patients, this can be very important in understanding their future risk and how best to prevent a heart attack, says Johan Malmqvist, cardiologist and researcher at Karolinska Institutet.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:57:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ebola outbreak in Congo spreads three times faster, with nearly 2,400 deaths reported]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For months, the rare Ebola strain spread silently. Now, more than 5,000 people have been confirmed infected in the Congo-Kinshasa outbreak - almost half of them have died. It’s a “perfect storm,” says Johan von Schreeb, a professor of global disaster medicine.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why we’re ticklish in the same places, according to researchers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The locations of ticklish areas on the body seem to be common across cultures. Researchers are now looking for answers to why we are ticklish in those particular areas.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to ease the back-to-work slump, according to stress researchers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The holiday peace doesn't have to end on the first day back at work. The return to work can be made smooth - and provide better recovery through the autumn. Autumn is not just a journey to the next holiday, it is also life, says Lina Ejlertsson, Doctor of Public Health at Lund University.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Study finds metabolic syndrome linked to premature brain aging]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[People with metabolic syndrome have brains that are significantly older than their chronological age, a new study from Karolinska Institutet, among others, shows. The results were striking, says researcher Abigail Dove, who led the study.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish nurse Martina Gustavsson works in Congo’s Ebola outbreak: not afraid]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Martina Gustavsson works as a nurse in Ebola-hit eastern Congo-Kinshasa, where hundreds have died from the hemorrhagic fever. But she is not worried about herself. If you know how to protect yourself, you need to be vigilant, but not afraid, she says.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Competition for university places intensifies as 307,000 are admitted this autumn]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Today, 307,000 applicants will be notified that they have been accepted to a higher education programme this autumn. Compared with last autumn, competition has become tougher, as a record number of applicants applied but fewer were admitted.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The chances of finding survivors after severe earthquakes are decreasing by the hour. That's why it's important to quickly begin rescue operations in Venezuela, according to Johan von Schreeb, professor of global disaster medicine. "It's extremely urgent," he says.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[By labeling unhealthy foods with warnings and banning advertising targeted at children and young people, Chile has tried to reverse the rise in childhood obesity, and a new study suggests it may have succeeded.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thousands of Swedes are affected by bowel cancer every year. A new study now shows that many cases are being detected earlier. The screening program is believed to be the reason. It is important that everyone who receives the envelopes actually takes the test, says Ulrika Årehed Kågström, Secretary General of the Swedish Cancer Foundation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:33:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heart rhythm examined from home with a mobile camera]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A mobile phone can examine heart rhythm at home - and in this way save healthcare resources, a new Swedish study shows. The precision in determining heart rhythm with this method is very high, says Johan Engdahl, one of the researchers.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:11:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mette-Marit's disease: What is pulmonary fibrosis]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been seen using oxygen - even at public events. But what exactly is pulmonary fibrosis, the condition she suffers from? Two doctors investigate.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:30:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The expert on the Ebola outbreak says we are not in control]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Both the death toll and the number of cases are rising after the Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The outbreak now risks spreading to neighboring countries. "We must be very fast and act now. We know what is needed, and they are fairly simple interventions," says Johan von Schreeb, professor of global disaster medicine.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 05:47:27 GMT</pubDate>
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