This article discusses the multi-faceted and changing role played by trade unions in providing unemployment benefits Sweden, a country using so-called Ghent system. As an important institutional feature explaining high rate of unionisation Nordics, system has been much debated. provides comprehensive account retrenchment state benefit (UBS) development occupational private UBS pillars complemen...

stroke patients with proximal occlusions of the main stems of cerebral arteries are no optimal candidates for i. v. thrombolysis. for many years interventional stroke treatment could not be established as alternative. this changed with the introduction of stent retrievers and flexible large lumen aspiration catheters. randomized trials now proved a significant benefit from intervention for a wi...