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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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“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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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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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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“You discover one thing – and then 10 new questions arise”
COVID-19, diabetes, heart disease, and the impact of dog ownership on humans are just some of multitasker Tove Fall’s areas of research. However, her current focus is on her next field: the role of gut flora in human health.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Studie: Extroverta mer benägna till vaccinskepsis
Utåtriktade personer borde ha bråttom att få komma ut och umgås igen under pandemin, och därför vara extra benägna att ta covid-vaccinet. Trodde forskarna. Men enligt deras studie var det precis tvärtom.
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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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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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Study: Chat GPT is more empathetic than doctors
The AI tool Chat GPT is not only more accurate when it comes to answering patient questions – the chatbot is also perceived as almost 10 times more empathetic than real doctors, a new study reveals.
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He got inside the head of Sweden’s vaccine hunter
The hunt for the COVID-19 vaccine is the theme of the new book Vaccinjägaren (The Vaccine Hunter). It tells the story of Richard Bergström’s mission as Sweden’s national vaccine coordinator and the scheming that went on behind the scenes in Europe
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