Finland Health News

Army recently funded a five-year, $50 million study by the National Institute of Mental Health to examine the factors possibly associated with suicide, including combat-related trauma, personal and economic stress, family history, childhood abuse, a military unit's cohesion and general...

Santa has promised children he will travel around the world to bring them Christmas presents despite the global swine flu pandemic. “I swear that Christmas will not be cancelled this year,” Father Christmas told Finnish national broadcaster YLE, explaining that...

An 18-year old woman died from A/H1N1 flu on Tuesday evening in Lahti, southern Finland, bringing the death toll of the new disease to six in the country, Finnish media reported on Wednesday.     The young woman had been suffering from...

Three people have died in Finland over the past few days from A/H1N1 flu infections, bringing the flu death toll to five in the Nordic country, reported Finnish media on Monday.     A 68 year-old patient died from A/H1N1 flu on...

For many years we have been advised that certain types of diet are good for our health. One rich in fish, fruit and vegetable, broadly described as a Mediterranean diet, has been encouraged so as to prevent heart disease. Meanwhile...

A second study found that men with lots of HDL, or "good cholesterol," were a little less likely to develop any form of prostate cancer than men with very low HDL. Both studies were published on Tuesday in Cancer Epidemiology...

Studies have shown a connection between high screen time volume and obesity rates. A study in the November issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found a correlation between longer hours of TV watching and lower...

An eight-year-old girl died from A/H1N1 virus on Monday in Tornio, in northern Finland, Finland's Ministry of Social Affairs and Health confirmed on Wednesday.     This is the second fatality resulting from the virus in Finland. A 25-year old chronic woman...

Diana Hamilton South Lake Tahoe Many of us have heard that America has the best health care in the world...We have great research and spend the most, but this does not translate to beneficial care. The CIA World Fact Book...