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GSK pays 2.2 billion dollars to settle Zantac lawsuits
British drugmaker Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, has struck a 2.2 billion dollar settlement, thereby resolving a vast majority of the liability cases pending against the company in the U.S. that alleged its discontinued drug Zantac caused cancer.
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From lab to patient – the art of developing new antibody therapies
For 25 years, Danish company Genmab has been developing antibodies and has managed to get several drugs all the way to the patient. Esther Breij has been along for much of the journey and has experienced setbacks, but also huge discoveries. “It’s amazing when you succeed,” she says.
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Svenskt på topplista över "smarta" sjukhus
Två svenska sjukhus placerar sig på tidskriften Newsweeks topp 100-lista över sjukhusen som är bäst på att använda sig av ny, avancerad medicinsk teknik.
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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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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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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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Swedish pavilion with healthcare companies at Ukraine fair – “Ukraine is being rebuilt right now”
Private companies and public authorities are both needed in the reconstruction of Ukraine, said Minister for Health Care, Acko Ankarberg Johansson, in her opening speech in the Swedish pavilion at the ReBuild Ukraine fair.
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Ranking: Top 10 highest-paid CEOs in pharma
It's nice to hear that things go well for others, right? Some of those who have done really well – at least financially – are listed here in the ranking of the best paid CEOs in Big Pharma 2023.
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IGN: Marknadsföring av prisvinnande läkemedel var vilseledande
Att framföra att ett läkemedel vunnit ett pris går att tolka som att det är bäst i sin klass, och kan därför vara vilseledande. Det slår Informationsgranskningsnämnden, IGN, fast i ett beslut.
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Setback for pharmaceutical companies in the Zantac case
A Delaware judge has ruled in favour of allowing expert witnesses to testify in a case involving the now-cancelled drug Zantac and its potential carcinogenicity.
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List: The coolest names in biotech
Hairy beasts, volcanic material and space strolling stand out on a US list of the best biotech company names, and on a list of the coolest names for pharmaceuticals, a Swedish, or at least Swedish-British, drug came out on top.
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Lista: Coolaste namnen inom biotech
Håriga bestar, vulkaniskt material och månpromenader sticker ut på en amerikansk lista över de bästa företagsnamnen inom biotech. Och på en annan lista, över de coolaste namnen på läkemedel, blev det svenskt, eller åtminstone svensk-brittiskt, i toppen.
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Vertex betalar 52 miljarder för bolag inom autoimmuna sjukdomar
Amerikanska Vertex Pharmaceuticals köper biotechbolaget Alpine Immune Sciences för 4,9 miljarder dollar, motsvarande drygt 52 miljarder kronor.
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Recipharm divests five Swedish plants
Swedish contract manufacturer Recipharm is selling its facilities in Solna, Strängnäs, Höganäs, Karlskoga and Uppsala OTC Development to US private equity company Blue Wolf Capital Partners.
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Settlement of cancer allegations against blockbuster drug
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has reached a principal agreement in the US on around 4,000 of the cases in which its now withdrawn blockbuster heartburn drug Zantac allegedly had caused cancer.
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Radioactive tracer to measure effect of drug towards Crohn’s disease
A radioactive tracer developed by Astra Zeneca and the Karolinska Institutet may play a major role for patients with Crohn's disease. That is the belief of Maria Belvisi at AstraZeneca.
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Rising interest in CRISPR treatments
Treatments using CRISPR technology are emerging as one of the hottest medical trends in the United States – and the FDA is doing its best to promote the development.
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Ingrid Lönnstedt: Demystification of the power of a scientific study
”You surely do realize that even the smallest changes in study assumptions may influence the estimated sample size needed. And how is it even possible to guess the magnitude of the treatment effect before performing the study?” writes Ingrid Lönnstedt in a column.
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”Information security must become part of the Swedish life science strategy”
Sweden needs knowledge security to stand strong in the global competition, writes Björn Ursing in an opinion article.
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Redsense grundare har avlidit
Patrik Byhmer, grundare av Redsense Medical och aktiv i flera andra medicinteknikbolag, har avlidit.
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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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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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The art of building a biologic drug
The first biosimilar from Xbrane Biopharma was launched earlier this year, and several more are under development at the company’s facility in Solna, Sweden. “We do everything in-house ‒ from DNA fragments to a final process,” says David Vikström, Chief Technology Officer at the company.
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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.