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“We should avoid surgery if we can”
Since February this year, she has been Scientific Director Life Science at the Karolinska Institutet. Life Science Sweden met Anna Martling for a talk about role models, surgery and Sweden’s strengths and weaknesses in medical research.
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Uppdraget: Stoppa felaktig förskrivning av läkemedel
Regelverket behöver stramas åt för att förhindra felaktig läkemedelsförskrivning, anser regeringen, som tillsätter en utredning. Bakgrunden är bland annat signaler om att läkemedel som semaglutid och botulinumtoxin skrivs ut på felaktiga grunder.
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Ingrid Lönnstedt: ”The confidence interval and its width”
Always keep an eye on the width of your and others’ confidence intervals, writes Ingrid Lönnstedt in a science column.
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Takeover bid is being completed – Japanese company acquires Calliditas
Japanese company Asahi Kasei completes the bid for Calliditas Therapeutics after reaching over 90 percent of the shareholding. Callidita's board has now decided to apply for delisting of the company´s share from Nasdaq Stockholm.
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Positiva besked för Cereno i både EU och USA – ”Stor glädje”
Cereno Scientific beviljas status som särläkemedel i EU för sin behandling av lungsjukdomen pulmonell arteriell hypertension, PAH. Samtidigt meddelas nya framsteg i USA.
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Anna Törner: Yes, I Am Sick, But Not Weak
”People often say that someone who is ill only has one wish—to get better. But I think that is not true. Someone who is ill also longs to be understood, to be respected, to not have their identity overshadowed by their condition”, writes Anna Törner in a column.
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Thumbs down for lecanemab in the EU – “Very surprised”
The Azheimer's drug lecanemab has received a negative assessment from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), according to an announcement made by the Agency last week. Bioarctic’s CEO Gunilla Osswald describes the reactions after the announcement as a surprise and disappointment.
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Ultimovacs studie uppnådde inte målen – ”Vi är besvikna”
Norska Ultimovacs cancervaccin uppnådde inte målen i en fas II-studie hos patienter med huvud- och halscancer. Cancervaccinet i kombination med en kontrollpunktshämmare gav inga ytterligare kliniska fördelar, enligt bolaget.
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Tummen ned för lecanemab i EU – ”Jätteförvånad”
Alzheimerläkemedlet lecanemab får ett negativ utlåtande från den europeiska läkemedelsmyndighetens kommitté för humanläkemedel, CHMP. Det meddelade myndigheten i förra veckan. Förvåning och besvikelse, så beskriver Bioarctics vd Gunilla Osswald reaktionerna efter beskedet.
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Celluminova får särläkemedelstatus i EU
Linköpingsbolaget Celluminovas läkemedelskandidat för detektion av tumördrivande celler i patienter med en form av elakartade hjärntumörer har fått särläkemedelsstatus i EU.
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Rapport: Så kan rest- och bristsituationer av läkemedel förebyggas
Läkemedelsverket presenterar i en ny delrapport ett 30-tal åtgärder för att förbättra tillgången till läkemedel.
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Bayer has cut 1,500 roles – so far
German chemical and pharmaceutical group Bayer cut more than 1,500 roles in the first quarter alone– and most of them were management positions.
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Total pipeline of pharmaceutical companies reaches a record high – 22,921 medicines are currently being developed
Despite the difficult economic times, pharmaceutical companies have never developed as many new drugs as now.
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Carl Borrebaeck – professor and serial entrepreneur with a taste for speed
Award-winning cancer researcher, the founder of many listed companies, and constantly in the academic and commercial spotlight for decades. However, Carl Borrebaeck, Professor of Immunotechnology at Lund, is not yet satisfied. “We have a new, potentially super exciting project in the pipeline,” he says.
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Forskaren in Hagastaden now inagurated
The real estate company Vectura's life science center in Hagastaden, Forskaren, is now inaugurated. The opening was attended by people from the industry, politicians and royalty.
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Ancient DNA provides new insights – “The immune system lost its job”
Ancient bone remains from our ancestors have provided new insights into the prevalence of multiple sclerosis. By looking back in time, researchers can provide a possible explanation for why the disease is more prevalent in northern Europe.
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KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures
A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying more than 47,000 samples. This was the conclusion of an internal investigation.
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Så ska skånsk biotech locka investerare
Bolag inom skånsk life science attraherar mindre pengar än snittet i Sverige enligt en ny rapport. Något Petter Hartman, vd för Medicon Village Innovation, menar har flera orsaker.
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Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse
The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala researcher Charlotte Blease, co-author of a book on the phenomenon.
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Ultimovacs skär ned på personal
Norska Ultimovacs, som utvecklar ett cancervaccin, planerar sparåtgärder efter misslyckade studieresultat. Åtgärderna innebär bland annat personalneddragningar.
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The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine
The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast cancer, testifies to this.
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KI:s frysfiasko utrett: En kedja av brister
Det var en kedja av både tekniska och organisatoriska brister som tillsammans orsakade fryshaveriet på Karolinska institutet under julhelgen, då över 47 000 prover förstördes. Det har en intern utredning kommit fram till.
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Study: Popular diabetes treatment is not associated with thyroid cancer
Concerns raised about an association between GLP-1 analogues, used to treat diabetes and obesity, and an increased risk of thyroid cancer are not supported by an extensive Scandinavian study.
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740 miljoner kronor till datadriven life science
Scilifelab får 740 miljoner kronor av Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse för att fortsätta med det nationella programmet för datadriven livsvetenskap.
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