Umea, Sweden News

Umea IK's new coach Joakim Blomqvist has signed Finland winger Anna Westerlund to strengthen their squad in a week when Swiss international striker Ramona Bachmann and Sweden midfielder Lisa Dahlqvist both left.

LinkMeda TMs portfolio company Likvor has received an order for Likvor CELDAa from Uppsala University Hospital .

Walking band is the second CD of the band from Ornskoldsvik-Sweden. The recordings were made at Tonteknik Recording in the neighbouring town Umea.

Perhaps you have seen one of those ubiquitous Stieg Larsson mystery novels, in which a brilliant feminist hacker, in concert with a brilliant left-wing journalist modelled on the author, skulk around Stockholm fighting fascists and solving murders.

From the Announcement/Summary: Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary - fingerprints'. New research published today, Thursday 10 December, in New Journal of Physics , describes a new concept from a group of Swedish physicists from ...

Reedman Bengt "Frippe" Nordstrom was both a sort of "enfant terrible" of Swedish jazz and one of the movers and shakers in the early years of Scandinavian jazz.

Way back in the summertime we were delighted that artists Jen Southern , Jen Hamilton and Chris St Amand were able to come to Umea and set up their Running Stitch artwork in the Open Source Embroidery exhibition I curated at BildMuseet.

Our organizing committee invites design students to participate in this event to inspire and nourish evocative discussions on the subject of interaction design.

A study commissioned by the National Public Health Institute has found that the number of obese and overweight ten-year-olds is higher in Bollnas, Vasteras and Ystad than in Karlstad and Umea.

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The Mistra program "Future Forests" invites applicants for a full-time postdoctoral position, one year with the possibility of extending to two years.

Surgeons should be able to demand that a patient refrains from smoking in the period before and after an operation, the director-general of the Swedish Welfare Board argued on Friday.

Blue Systems in cooperation with developer Turborilla , developer of the arcade racing game Mad Skills Motocross , have announced work on a modern remake of a classic of multiplayer strategy gaming.

"Poverty in material terms is inextricably linked with poverty of [health] data" argues Peter Byass this week in the Magazine section of open access journal, PLoS Medicine .

In January 2002, Umea, Sweden was about the coldest inhabited place on earth. But it was at Umea University, in an office festooned with Sweden's ubiquitous winter candles, that Lennarth Nystrom was carrying out his critical research: analyzing and updating the half-dozen Swedish mammography studies that tell us nearly all of what we know about the ...

Two teenage girls have been convicted for their role in terrorizing refugees in Vannas in northern Sweden last May in what was described at the time as a 'lynch mob'. The girls, aged 16 and 17 when the incident took place, were sentenced to juvenile care by the district court in Umea for harassment and vandalism, Sveriges Radio reports.

Call them dodgers, darters, speeders or maybe another choice word or two. It is well documented that aggressive drivers are dangerous and cause accidents.

The use of serotonin receptor 2A -blocking antidepressants may increase the risk of various joint disorders, researchers report in the October 15th issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism.

Umea IK coach Mika Sankala has announced his departure in the week he led them into the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals. Travel burden A 1-1 draw at home to WFC Rossiyanka took the Swedish side through to next Friday's draw 2-1 on aggregate but Sanaka, who turns 45 on Monday, will not be in charge when the competition resumes on 10 ...

FCR 2001 Duisburg won through to the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday but the side they beat to lift the former UEFA Women's Cup in May, Zvezda-2005, were among seven clubs to exit the round of 16.