The Nordic study group on myeloproliferative disorders (NMPD) is a pan-Nordic organisation that has conducted Nordic clinical trials since 2001. NMPD decided in 2006 to write new guidelines, based on already existing national guidelines from the Nordic countries, Italy (1) and Great Britain (2). The first version was published in 2007. The aim has been to write a document that can be used in al...

BACKGROUND In the period 1990-2006, strong and almost equivalent increases in sales figures of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were observed in all Nordic countries. The sales figures of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) dropped in Norway and Sweden in the nineties. After 2000, sales figures of TCAs have been almost constant in all Nordic countries. The potentially toxic effect ...

All the Nordic countries have a basis for their surveillance and disease control in ruminants in national legislation and regulations listing notifiable diseases of concern to the countries. The Nordic countries are a disease-free zone comparing to other parts of the world and the aim of the surveillance is to keep that status and be able to document it. Following is a short summary from each c...

Due to the increasing importance of disease problems in the fish farming industry and the impact disease may have on both feral and farmed fish in the Nordic countries, monitoring and surveillance on diseases have for many years been considered to be of socioeconomic importance. All the Nordic countries have a national legislation as basis for their surveillance and disease control in aquatic a...

When faced with organised racism, liberal democracies attempt to strike a balance between combating extremism and protecting core values such as freedom of association. Earlier research has argued that states have experienced nondemocratic regime control in the twentieth century—either through domestic takeover or foreign occupation—are more likely take repressive approach racist associations. ...

For many years the national alcohol policies of Nordic countries have been an important foundation for efforts to reduce per capita alcohol consumption and associated alcohol harm, including establishing production, import, and retail monopolies in four of the Nordic Countries, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, and Norway. The membership of Finland and Sweden as well as the economic treaty agreement of...

The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of some of the most important issues faced by acute inpatient facilities in three Scandinavian countries, including reflections and critical remarks for discussion in this field. Information was drawn from scientific articles and official reports published in recent years, as well as the authors' own knowledge of acute facilities in their home coun...

The papers on occupation and cancer from the Nordic Occupational Cancer project (NOCCA) in this issue of Acta Oncologica [1,2] provide an important resource to aid in our understanding of the role of occupational exposures in the etiology of cancer. This effort updates the earlier work by Andersen et al. [3] that also used the unique resources in Nordic countries for data linkage to study cance...