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Ingrid Lönnstedt: What does the p-value mean?
The smaller the better, and preferably smaller than 0.05. A p-value smaller than 5% means that the treatment effect is statistically significant at 5% significance level. But what does that mean? Read Ingrid Lönnstedt´s column to learn more.
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Nya varianten av covid JN.1 klassas som en ”variant of interest”
JN.1 ökar snabbt i olika delar av världen, bland annat i Sverige. Världshälsoorganisationen WHO klassificerar nu varianten som en ”variant of interest” (VOI).
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A vaccine the world is waiting for: “It can change the lives of many”
A Solna laboratory is developing a vaccine that could save the lives of countless children in low- and middle-income countries. “Working on something that can make a difference for many people is important to me,” says Christine Hägglund, Laboratory Manager.
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Business Sweden: “Companies have a lot to offer in data-driven precision medicine”
Data-driven precision medicine can potentially solve major healthcare problems, states Business Sweden in a new report on the subject.
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Studie med antifetmapiller avbryts efter biverkningar
Pfizer har beslutat att inte gå vidare med sin viktminskningskandidat danuglipron i den version som ska intas i tablettform två gånger om dagen. Orsaken är de biverkningar som behandlingen gett.
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Life science-profil utnämnd till ”årets vd”
När den europeiska lifescience-industrin samlades gick utnämningen "årets vd" till svenska Gunilla Osswald.
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Founder of Bioarctic, Lars Lannfelt, is honoured: “I want to create something for the future”
It´s like a scientist’s dream: to be the world’s first with a drug that genuinely affects one of our major diseases. Lars Lannfelt and his company Bioarctic have achieved just that, and they are thus making a significant contribution to the history of Swedish medicine. He is now being awarded the Research!Sweden Award 2023.
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“A major energy boost for the entire cancer vaccine field”
The development of cancer vaccines has accelerated in recent years. Norwegian Ultimovacs is one of the companies attempting to develop a new type of treatment line for cancer patients, and the company recently presented positive data from a phase II study.
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High-tech companies are increasingly focusing on health
Tech companies have been taking an interest in healthcare for many years, and this interest seems to be increasing. “It’s not a sudden shift in trend, it’s more about them advancing their positions,” says Anna Lefevre Skjöldebrand, CEO of Swedish Medtech.
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The physician at the tech giant: “Observations in the emergency room made my mind up”
When Nasim Farrokhnia was in third grade at school in Tehran, the capital of Iran, her father gave her a book about Marie Curie, which soon became her favourite book. Perhaps her interest in science was born there and then, as science and new technology have since been a constant feature of her working life. Today, she is a Healthcare Manager in Microsoft’s Western Europe team.
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Study names with an attitude – more important than you might think
Ironman, T-rex, Star-Trek. Popcorn, Proper, Scout. Nope, these are neither fantasy films nor dog names. They’re the names of ongoing cancer studies in Sweden.
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Oncopeptides avbryter ansökan om utökad indikation för Pepaxti
Forskningsbolaget Oncopeptides avbryter ansökningsprocessen i EU som skulle ge blodcancerläkemedlet Pepaxti tillgång även till tidigare behandlingslinjer för patienter med multipelt myelom.
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Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”
It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless different assignments later, Per Alfredsson, born and raised in Södertälje, is CEO of Astra Zeneca Sweden, which employs 7800 people in Södertälje, Stockholm and Gothenburg. “It was a very special feeling to be in charge of the entire organisation,” he says in an interview about his career and potential future blockbusters.
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19 medicines in Sweden are under investigation in a major EMA inquiry
19 medicines marketed in Sweden are affected by an ongoing extensive European investigation into suspected fraud at an Indian contract research organisation. Among them are medicines for HIV, epilepsy, cancer and Parkinson’s, which may be withdrawn
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Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients
In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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Ascelia halverar arbetsstyrkan – ”Tyvärr är dessa steg nödvändiga”
Bioteknikbolaget Ascelia Pharma säger upp tolv personer - nästan halva arbetsstyrkan - för att minska kostnaderna sedan delar av en studie måste göras om. ”Detta är ett mycket svårt beslut för oss att ta”, säger vd:n Magnus Corfitzen.
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Double up for Korbinian Löbmann
This year, Korbinian Löbmann will moderate the New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meeting in Copenhagen for the fifth time. Furthermore, he will also moderate The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science congress in Lund for the first time.
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Why the world renown researcher Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns as Stanford´s president
In mid-summer, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation as President of Stanford following allegations of manipulated study data. According to the reporter Theo Baker, who first reported the story, Tessier-Lavigne “rewarded the winners and punished the losers”. Here is the background of the story which has shaken the American scientific community over the summer.
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Mobergs svampbehandling får säljas receptfritt i Sverige
Moberg Pharma har fått nationellt godkännande i Sverige för sin behandling Mob-015 mot nagelsvamp hos vuxna.
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Nytt Alzheimerstest säljs direkt till konsument
Amerikanska Quest Diagnostics har lanserat ett blodtest för diagnos av Alzheimers som marknadsförs direkt mot konsument. Testet mäter nivån av beta-amyloid, och ska bidra till tidig upptäckt av sjukdomen.
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Moberg Pharmas svampbehandling godkänns i Irland
Nu har läkemedelsföretaget Moberg Pharmas behandling Mob-015 av milda och måttliga svampinfektioner i naglarna hos vuxna erhållit ett nationellt godkännande i Irland.
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Moberg Pharmas svampbehandling rekommenderas för godkännande i EU-länder
Moberg Pharmas nya behandling mot nagelsvamp rekommenderas för nationella marknadsgodkännanden i 13 europeiska länder. Det meddelar företaget och aviserar samtidigt en företrädesemission på cirka 100 miljoner kronor för att möjliggöra en kommande
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Neanderthal gene variants may cause Viking disease
A new study suggests that the so-called Viking disease, which affects the hand function in many older people, may be linked to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals.
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Tolv jobb försvinner när Bio-Works ska effektivisera
Uppsalabolaget Bio-Works omstrukturerar och minskar antalet medarbetare från 52 till 40. Syftet uppges vara att skapa en mer effektiv organisation.
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