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Celebrity surgeon suspected in patients’ deaths

Swedish prosecutors have informed the scandal-hit Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini that he is formally suspected on two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Published: 22 June 2016 11:15 CEST
Celebrity surgeon suspected in patients’ deaths
Paolo Macchiarini in 2010. Photo: Lorenzo Galassi/AP/TT

Prosecutors questioned the surgeon twice last week over operations carried out on 2011 and 2012, Dagens Nyheter reports. 

“The suspicions concern crimes relating to the operations,” prosecutor Anders Tordai told the newspaper. 

Previously an internationally renowned surgery star who operated on numerous Swedish and international celebrities, Macchiarini was sacked in March by Sweden's Karolinska Institute (KI) after growing controversy surrounding his medical methods.

The Italian attained world fame after completing the first synthetic trachea transplant using stem cells in 2011.
 
He made a name for himself in Sweden for three trachea operations at Karolinska University Hospital. But two of the patients died, while the third sustained serious injuries and remains in hospital in the United States. 
 
KI first filed a complaint alleging that Macchiarini had downplayed the risks of the procedure in 2014 and suspended all synthetic trachea transplants shortly afterwards. 
 
A previous article in the medical journal Läkartidningen described the Macchiarini case as an “ethical Chernobyl” for the institute.

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These are Sweden’s 13 best universities according to a new ranking

Three Swedish universities have made the top 100 in a prestigious global ranking – with 13 Swedish universities in the top 1000s.

Published: 16 August 2019 15:09 CEST
These are Sweden's 13 best universities according to a new ranking
The Karolinska Institute was Sweden's top university in the ranking. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

Harvard University in the US again placed first in the table of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU – also often referred to as the Shanghai Ranking).

But Sweden's performance was not too shabby, with the Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University and Stockholm University in the top 100s, and 13 universities in the top 1000s.

Sweden's medical school Karolinska Institute climbed to 38th place in the ranking, up from 44th last year.

It was followed by Uppsala in 62nd place and Stockholm as number 73, who both also improved their performance on last year.

Its Danish neighbours got the highest spot out of the Nordic countries, with University of Copenhagen in 26th place. But Sweden had the most universities listed compared to Denmark's and Norway's six each, Finland's eight and Iceland's one nod in the ranking.

The rest of the Swedish seats were Lund University (in a shared 101-150th spot), University of Gothenburg (151-200), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (201-300), Chalmers University of Technology (301-400), Linköping University (301-400), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (301-400), Stockholm School of Economics (401-500), Umeå University (401-500), Örebro University (801-900) and Luleå University of Technology (901-1000).

Among the six indicators used to rank the universities were the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers, and the number of articles cited in journals of nature and science

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