Eighty percent of Finnish men who come forward to donate sperm have their deposit rejected, according to a leading fertility clinic.
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Expat Scientist’s Research Helps to Predict if You’ll Get Diabetes
The numbers of diabetics in Finland are rising as people live longer and become more obese. But some people – with higher insulin resistance – are more prone to develop it than others.
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A Nordic Working group has proposed banning a popular fungal delicacy, according to a YLE report.
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Ultra wideband (UWB) wireless technology has the potential to be used to remotely monitor hospital patients, according to Oulu University scientists.
Read the rest of this entry »Babies Really Do Sleep Better Outside
The Finnish practice of putting babies outside in the freezing cold to sleep really does work, according to an Oulu University scientist.
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45 year-old British company director Andy Langdon was told he had just two years to live. But he refused to give up and ended-up being cured, starting with an operation in the UK.
Read the rest of this entry »Oulu Youths Taking More and More Snus
There has been a sharp increase in the amount of chewing tobacco consumed by Oulu teenagers.
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Oulu University Hospital sees two and half fold increase in gastric bypasses in just one year.
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Most children with chronic urinary tract infections are not at increased risk from kidney disease later in life, according to an Oulu University study.
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Twenty-one percent of Finnish women over the age of 40 have never had children, according to new data released by Statistics Finland. But it’s only fifteen percent in Ostrobothnia.
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