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Ny bok skildrar vägen till ett nytt läkemedel
Vetenskaplig briljans, idogt arbete – och ibland en smula hjälp av slumpen. I en ny bok beskrivs de inte sällan dramatiska processer som ledde fram till upptäckterna av några av våra viktigaste läkemedel.
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Novo Nordisk appoints Mike Doustdar as new CEO
The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has appointed Mike Doustdar as its new CEO. At the same time, the company announced it was lowering its forecasts – which caused the stock to drop sharply on Wednesday.
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Mikael Kubista back with new venture after turbulent exit
Entrepreneur and researcher Mikael Kubista is starting a new company. Now he is also free to comment on the sequence of events that led to him losing ownership of his life's work – the company Tataa Biocenter. “Not only did they take our company away from us. They followed up by showering us with lawsuits,” he says.
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Digitala tvillingar blir verklighet i primärvården – ”Som en tamagotchi”
Att möta sin egen digitala tvilling och se vad som händer med kroppen om man slutar röka eller ändrar diet? Det ska testas vid besök på vårdcentraler i Östergötland.
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Brådska på myndigheter inför nya EU-regler
Korta tidsramar och begränsade resurser. Det är några av utmaningarna som identifierats när tre myndigheter har utrett hur HTA-förordningen kan införas effektivt i Sverige.
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Thomas Eldered: ”Innovation is the key”
Thomas Eldered speaks in a web clip about the challenges facing the life science sector in the future and what he, as an investor, finds most interesting in new companies.
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An increasing number of people are falling ill with TBE – “Much more research is needed”
Tick-borne meningitis, or TBE, is an increasingly common disease in Sweden. Currently, there is a vaccine against the disease but no drugs. Researcher Anna Överby Wernstedt is studying the processes that occur in the brain during a TBE infection and hopes to contribute to developing a treatment.
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Anna Törner: ”Mom, do you think you’ll ever get married again?”
”I realize I’m slowly descending into that familiar statistical rabbit hole, where life’s biggest uncertainties are reduced to point estimates and confidence intervals”, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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Anna Törner: ”Orphan designation läkemedelsutvecklingens ’petite robe noire’”
Det är så lätt att klamra sig fast vid olika regulatoriska incitament, som orphan designation, utan att egentligen veta vad de innebär och på vilket sätt de kan vara rätt (eller fel), skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.
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Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work
A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story of a Swedish entrepreneur who was going to raise US venture capital to strengthen his company
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Anna Törner: The clinical trial – Periscope to reality
What happens to the patients in the clinical trial is not very interesting, writes Anna Törner in a column.
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Petter Hartman: ”Uppenbart att något måste göras på systemnivå“
Kostnaderna för svensk hälso- och sjukvård har ökat kraftigt de senaste decennierna och prognoserna tyder inte på att något trendbrott är att vänta framöver. Hur ska vi klara finansieringen av framtidens vård? Ett svar på frågan är ökade investeringar i prevention.
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Anna Törner: The minute between life and death
. There is no forgiveness for something like this, even though it is very human to be distracted for a moment,” Anna Törner writes in a column.
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Principerna som är vägledande vid djurförsök
Ett begrepp som består av tre R är vägledande för det statliga forskningsinstitutet Rise i Södertälje. Att försöksdjuren här har det bra är inte bara viktigt för deras egen skull utan även för att få trovärdiga resultat i studier på läkemedel.
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The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare rejects prioritising andrology as a speciality
Male infertility can be linked to a shorter lifespan and several severe diseases, but when couples who want children are examined, the focus is on the woman. Experts in the field claim that andrology needs to become a speciality in Sweden to increase awareness and knowledge. But the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare says that it is not a priority.
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Svenska kirurger: ”Vi måste bygga flexibla op-salar”
Flexibla operationssalar, mikrosensorer på kirurgerna för övervakning av mående och 3D-bilder projicerade på organ som ska opereras. Det är några förslag som tre specialister i kirurgi efterfrågar för framtidens operationssal.
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“We need to build flexible operating theatres”
Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas that three specialist surgeons are suggesting for the operating theatre of the future.
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Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?
When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely expensive treatments with biological drugs. So, how well has Swedish healthcare used biosimilars? The answer partly depends on whom you ask.
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Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire
In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move its production abroad. 34-year-old Thomas was facing an imminent risk of losing his job. However, instead, it actually turned out to be the starting point for one of the biggest success stories in Swedish life science.
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Life Science-podden: The perfect moment for an IPO
When is the right time to go for an IPO? What strategy is recommended in today´s rather uncertain business climate when it comes to taking your life science company public?
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Hello Angelica Loskog!
Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Angelica Loskog and interviews her about her life as a researcher.
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Axlade tunga uppdraget – nu prisas vaccinkändisen Richard Bergström
Pandemin var i full gång, och ingen visste när eller ens om ett vaccin skulle komma. I det läget ringde socialministern med ett förslag – och Richard Bergström tvekade inte. – Jag hade redan en bild av att det här kommer att gå, säger han till Life Science Sweden.
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Helena Strigård: The rise of the community
Sweden Bio´s CEO is looking back at the last decade of development in the industry. Something has shifted in the interdependence between small and larger companies.
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Hård kritik mot Varuförsörjningsnämnden
Regionrevisorerna har granskat vad som hände i samband med varuleveranskrisen 2019. Nu står det klart att Varuförsörjningsnämnden brast allvarligt när de upphandlade Apotekstjänst som ny distributör av sjukvårdsutrustning och förbrukningsmaterial.