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Cancer patients will receive financial aid for dental treatments starting next year, reports TV2.

Minister of Health Sophie Løhde said the government was working to repeal Section 166 of the Health Act to be more inclusive so that...

The government will raise the health budget by 5 billion DKK a year to boost the sector, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced.

The new health package was drawn up after numerous reports and stories emerged from cancer patients who did not receive treatments or have yet...

Should free abortion be allowed up to a woman’s 22nd week of pregnancy?

Rosa Lund (Enhedslisten) believes so, saying that this provides women with more time to receive all the information and womb scans needed before she...

“Rainy” days ahead for Aalborg University Hospital

Soaking wet internal wall insulation, damp bricks with moss growing on them, foul-smelling water dripping from walls and poorly executed brickwork were among the...

Claiming that hospital births aren’t safe sets a dangerous precedent

the Danish Society for Patient Safety warns Moderhuset Maia, a private midwifery company advocating home births. Society director Inge Kristensen says, “It is a...