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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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Finansiering inom life science – ”Det har varit en tuff period utan tvekan”
Tuffa ekonomiska tider avspeglas inom life science-sektorn. Hur ska man tänka i dagens klimat och är vi på väg mot ljusare tider? Det diskuterades under ett panelsamtal vid ett event i Lund.
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Vad blir nästa stora hype efter obesitas? – Expertpanel lyfte fram sina favoriter
Vad är nästa stora trend inom life science? Alltifrån alzheimer, Crispr och Omics lyftes fram när frågan diskuterades på årets stora life science-event i Lund.
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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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Kvinnohälsa en outnyttjad marknad – ”Det finns goda kommersiella möjligheter”
Mer och mer sker inom området kvinnohälsa när det kommer till både innovation och investeringar. Förutom att vara en viktig marknad är det även en relativt outnyttjad marknad, menar Charlotte Nørgaard Langer.
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The investor: “The major common diseases are hot again”
She has previously been voted Investor of the Year and will now be moderating The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science congress. We check the temperature of the industry with Nina Rawal from Trill Impact Advisory.
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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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Healthcare study: Alzheimer’s blood test shows high accuracy
A blood test for identifying Alzheimer’s has now been tested in the general healthcare setting. According to the researchers, the test was 90% accurate in making a diagnosis.
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Ännu ett Alzheimerläkemedel godkänt – lecanemab får konkurrens
Eli Lillys läkemedel donanemab mot Alzheimers godkändes på tisdagen av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA. Det är det andra godkända bromsläkemedlet mot sjukdomen, och tar därmed upp kampen med svenskutvecklade lecanemab.
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Nobel Prize winner Torsten Wiesel turns 100: “Old men like me should use their experience to help the young”
In 1955, a young Torsten Wiesel jumped on a boat to the US and embarked on a fabulous career as a neuroscientist, crowned with a Nobel Prize for his work. Now 100 years old, he looks back on an intense life and his upbringing in Stockholm, Sweden, which shaped his desire to help the vulnerable in society.
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Innovative start-up helps doctors, scientists and industry balance coagulation risks
For many doctors caring for seriously ill patients, for example, in stroke units and cancer wards, maintaining the life-saving balance between bleeding and thrombosis is an ongoing challenge. In the late 1980s, scientists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed an innovative method, the thrombin generation assay (TGA), which provides a complete overview of a physiological process crucial for maintaining normal haemostasis.
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“Conducting research at universities is becoming more and more like working at a research hotel”
The government wants Swedish research to focus on excellence and innovation, but can the two be combined? Life Science Sweden talks to Anna Falk, a professor at Lund University, about research policy, the constant hunt for funding in academia and what constitutes ‘fine research’.
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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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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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Elevhälsa och hemsjukvård berörs när vårdkonflikten växer
Vårdförbundet varslar om en utökad övertids- mertids- och nyanställningsblockad. Den här gången omfattas ytterligare 5 000 medlemmar i 29 kommuner.
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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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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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Ny rapport: Bolagen fortsatt optimistiska om svensk hälsoexport
Trots oro i omvärlden och osäkerhet kring världsekonomin råder optimism bland svenska företag inom hälsoexport, enligt en ny rapport.
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Lista: Big pharma-bolagen som satsar mest på R&D
Merparten av de stora globala läkemedelsjättarna ökade sina forsknings- och utvecklingsbudgetar i fjol, men ett av dem sticker ut rejält, enligt en ny sammanställning.
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Specific proposals and targets top the universities’ desired priorities
What are the universities’ expectations for the update of the national life science strategy? Life Science Sweden posed the question to representatives from Karolinska Institutet and Sahlgrenska Academy.
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“What is important is to create an overview and understanding from different perspectives”
Scientist Jochen Schwenk analyses blood proteins using proteomics to improve our understanding of disease and health. This year, he is moderating the Lab & Diagnostics of the Future event.
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From Valneva to the CEO position at NorthX – “I saw it as a great opportunity”
A new cell therapy for leukaemia, a vaccine in tablet form against cholera, and a proprietary mRNA line with the potential capacity to supply the entire Nordic region with vaccines during a future pandemic. These are some of the projects underway at NorthX Biologics – under the direction of new CEO Janet Hoogstraate.
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Adhd-läkemedel restnoterat i hela Sverige
Läkemedlet Intuniv för behandling av adhd är slut i hela Sverige, rapporterar Norrländska Socialdemokraten.