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Malariamedicin mot covid: Sex fall av misstänkta biverkningar i Sverige
Läkemedelsverket har fått in sex rapporter om misstänkta biverkningar i samband med att covidpatienter behandlats med malarialäkemedlet klorokin. I ett av fallen dog patienten.
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A new special edition and a new event in Copenhagen – This is happening at Life Science Sweden 2024
The new year brings new features for the readers of Life Science Sweden.
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Verkningslös covidbehandling kan ha dödat 17 000
Ogrundade förhoppningar på substanserna klorokin och hydroxiklorokin som behandling mot covid-19 kan ha lett till att närmare 17 000 personer miste livet, enligt en ny studie.
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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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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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Sverige och Ukraina tecknar avtal för sjukvårdsstöd
Under en konferens som arrangeras idag, fredag, i Stockholm ska ett avtal tecknas om sjukvårdssamarbeten mellan Sverige och Ukraina.
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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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Ny sammanställning: Regionerna ska spara minst 10 miljarder
Flera regioner ser ut att gå med underskott 2023. Enligt en ny enkätundersökning av Sveriges Radio Ekot väntas besparingar i en majoritet av regionerna.
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Utbrott av kikhosta i Danmark oroar – svensk region uppmanar till vaccinering
En ökning av kikhosta i Danmark oroar sjukvården i Västra Götaland som nu uppmanar gravida i regionen att vaccinera sig för att skydda spädbarn, rapporterar Sveriges Radio P4 Göteborg.
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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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Sverige dröjer med det senaste covidvaccinet
Det uppdaterade vaccinet mot covid-19 ska vara mer effektivt mot mutationer. Men, till skillnad från andra länder i Europa, får de flesta i Sverige vänta.
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The first drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s – but what does it mean for patients?
New treatments for early Alzheimer’s are bringing hope to thousands of patients and their families. The question is, who will get the treatment, how will the right patients be found in time, and will the healthcare system’s resources be sufficient? Life Science Sweden has spoken to Swedish researchers in Alzheimer’s who voice cautious hope but also see further challenges.
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Charlotta Gummeson leaves Sahlgrenska Science Park – “It feels sad and exciting at the same time”
With mixed emotions, Charlotta Gummeson will leave her position as CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park in October. “It feels sad and exciting at the same time. I’ve been in the thick of things and part of the development for so long now, but I’m also looking forward and thinking about all the new things that there will be in a freer role,” she says to Life Science Sweden
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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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Pfizer’s Paxlovid is being tested against post-COVID in a major Swedish study
In a new study conducted at the Karolinska University Hospital, Pfizer’s COVID drug, Paxlovid, is now being tested in patients with post-COVID. The study is one of the most extensive studies in the world currently being conducted for a drug for post-COVID.
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Pfizers Paxlovid testas mot postcovid i stor svensk studie
I en ny studie vid Karolinska universitetssjukhuset testas nu Pfizers covidläkemedel Paxlovid på patienter med postcovid. Det är en av de största studierna i världen som just nu genomförs för ett läkemedel mot postcovid.
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Heidi Stensmyren is eager for new challenges in the biotech industry
Heidi Stensmyren has served as President of the Swedish Medical Association, held a managerial position at Karolinska University Hospital and is now Medical Director at a biotech company. “I’m curious and like to have influence, so I’ve often chosen management roles,” she says.
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Postcovidmottagning för barn hotas av nedläggning
En mottagning i Linköping som arbetar med rehabilitering av barn med postcovid och som är den enda i sitt slag i Sverige hotas av nedläggning, rapporterar Sveriges Radio Ekot.
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Lucy Robertshaw: Artificial intelligence – is this really going to transform a patient’s life?
In a column Lucy Robertshaw reflects on how AI and new regulations will affect healthcare, innovation and the lives of future patients.
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Samuel Lagercrantz: The government’s performance in healthcare and life sciences so far
Since the change of government in Sweden, developments in the healthcare sector have shown promising signs, but the outlook in life sciences is less promising, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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New drug alert in the US: Rise in overdoses linked to the use of drugs for animals
A combination of the synthetic drugs fentanyl and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, has been labelled a “growing threat” by the White House due to its role in the ongoing opioid crisis in the US.
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KI’s new President: “We need to work closer together”
A closer link between research and education and a stronger “we-feeling” are aims that Annika Östman Wernerson sets out to achieve as the new President of Karolinska Institutet. She will not give up her research entirely though. “I think it’s crucial to maintain a close presence in the business,” she says.
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“I am driven by the desire to develop a product that can be sold worldwide”
Ranked number one in the world by the WHO in diarrhoea research and soon in phase III studies for its vaccine candidate – Scandinavian Biopharma is rushing forward in the pursuit of the world’s first ETEC vaccine. Meet the company’s CEO Björn Sjöstrand.
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Hello Jenni Nordborg!
Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Jenni Nordborg and asks her about her new job, why she became a chemical engineer and who her role model is.