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En apparat stor som en mobiltelefon kan komma att revolutionera förskrivningen av läkemedel.

Neurosearch får 157 miljoner för samarbete

Nya läkemedel mot sjukdomar i centrala nervsystemet är målet med samarbetet mellan Neurosearch och bolagets amerikanska partner.

Teori om cancer och kromosomer fel

Längden på kromosomernas ändar, telomererna, har inget med uppkomsten av cancer att göra. Det visar en studie från Umeå universitet.

Hon ska basa över läkemedelsförmånerna

Regeringen har utsett Gunilla Hulth-Backlund till ny generaldirektör och chef för Tandvårds- och läkemedelsförmånsverket, TLV.

Nytt läkemedel mot Crohns sjukdom

Zealand Pharma tar en ny behandling till klinisk prövning

Re-painting the big pig-ture

Why do tame pigs show such variety in colouring, when their wild relatives are so plain? Swedish researchers know who is to blame. But the big question is why.

Pfizer lays a chunky bid on Wyeth

The merger of two pharma giants is the largest industry deal so far this year. Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $68 billion. The Boards of Directors of both companies have said yes to the deal that may lead to lay-offs of some 8,000 persons.

Vitamin D is mental health aid

Vitamin D can help stave off the mental decline that can affect people in old age, a study suggests.

EU says yes to Roche drug

EU approves a first in class therapy for treatment of patients with moderate to severe form of rheumatoid arthritis.

Metabolic pro heads prefect post

The dean of the Department of Biomedicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy has appointed a new assistant prefect.

Top modern lab to Sahlgrenska

The Sahlgrenska Science Park will soon open the doors to a brand new wet laboratory.

Future drugs from Amaryllis

A Danish research team has discovered possibolities to extract drugs fro Amaryllis.

Positive combined cancer therapy

Topotarget announces positive data with new treatment against colorectal cancer.

Swedish Medtech söker ekonom/jurist

LEO Pharma - International Clinical Trial Manager

Crafoord Prize to an American and two Japanese

Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the laureates of the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009.

New CEO to Medivir

The Board of the Swedish biotech company Medivir has appointed the successor to the current CEO Lars Adlersson.

SDU professor helps EU

Mette Præst Knudsen from the University of Southern Denmark, SDU, has been appointed as an expert member in an EU politics group.

Danish discovery could help cardiac patients

The Danish researchers have developed a component that could make live easier forpatients with heart failure.

Danish biorefinery can save US billions

The Danish Inbicon biorefinery process could save the US billions on foreign oil, the organization states.

Acadia drug awarded

Acadia Pharmaceutical has got an award for a new treatment against Parkinson's disease.

Cancer cells cheat suicide call

Cancer cells cheat death by reversing a process which causes normal cells to commit suicide at the end of their natural life, researchers from the University of Hong Kong have shown.

Glucose facilitates the use of indigo

The Finnish researcher Anne Vuorema oat the MTT Agrifood Research Finland proves in her new doctoral dissertation that glucose can serve as a reducing agent of indigo.

Academy for a new turn at work

Are you qualified within life science, but unemployed? Here is your chance for a new career, in high demand.