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Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”
Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the trial against the Italian surgeon began on Wednesday last week.
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When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend
Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advances have come about thanks to completely random incidents and the open-mindedness of scientists who were ready to think outside the box.
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Lucy Robertshaw: Are we in the perfect storm?
“Is there a perfect storm on the horizon again as elective surgeries were cancelled due to patients being admitted with Covid-19? We now have a long backlog of people who are presenting with chronic diseases that need to access healthcare again”, writes Lucy Robertshaw in a column.
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Björn Ursing: Physicians new role in AI driven healthcare
”AI could be the key we need for tomorrow’s healthcare, but it is not a stand-alone tool”, writes Björn Ursing in a column about how the role for physicians changes in the era of AI.
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CAR-T therapies give continued hope: “Almost half of the patients have become disease-free”
When the first CAR-T therapies appeared, hopes were raised for the effective treatment for critically ill cancer patients. After a somewhat sluggish start, about 90 patients in Sweden have now been treated with this method. “Almost half of them have become disease-free, at least of those treated with Yescarta, which are the ones I know best,” says Gunilla Enblad, Chairman of the national working group for CAR-T treatment.
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Samuel Lagercrantz: Immunotherapy against cancer is still in its early stages
For more than 100 years, researchers have tried to target the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. They have occasionally been laughed at and ridiculed by the medical establishment. However, from our perspective today, we can sum it up with the saying: He who laughs last laughs best, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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Karolinska åttonde bästa sjukhuset i världen
Karolinska universitetssjukhuset placerar sig för tredje året i rad på topp tio när världens bästa sjukhus rankas av Newsweek. Men sjukhuset har tappat en placering mot förra året.
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Study: An objective diagnosis of constant tinnitus may be possible
A new method that measures brain activity during sound stimulation can make it possible to objectively diagnose and identify people who suffer from constant tinnitus, which was demonstrated in a study made by researchers at the Karolinska Institute.
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Stockholm aims at becoming one of the world’s top life science regions
Regional Chair for Finance, Irene Svenonius (M), believes that Stockholm can realise the goal of becoming one of the world’s top 5 regions in life science by 2025. One step on the way to achieve this is by hosting a world-leading congress in medtech.
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Giulia Gaudenzi: Innovation for good
"I challenge the innovator landscape to take a mental leap. Relying on innovation-solely to end inequality is not enough, therefore consciously and purposively – we need to engage bravely with the politics of poverty and scarcity. Even in life sciences", writes Giulia Gaudenzi in a column.
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Ny medicinsk chef på Alligator
Immunterapibolaget Alligator Bioscience i Lund har utsett Sumeet Ambarkhane till Chief Medical Officer, CMO.
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MVA:s CEO: “Our investments should improve people´s everyday lives”
Involuntary infertility and diabetes are two of the areas on the agenda of the Medicon Valley Alliance.
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Karolinska i Europatopp när "smartaste" sjukhusen rankas
Karolinska universitetssjukhuset i Solna är bäst i Europa på att använda ny teknik inom sjukvården, enligt en rankning i tidskriften Newsweek.
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Column: Why there cannot be a complete cure for cancer – but there is certainly another way!
"Is there a new way we need to be thinking about how to prevent cancer?" Lucy Robertshaw reflects upon which is the smartest way to beat cancer.
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Nextcells MSC-kandidat i kanadensisk covidstudie
Den svenska biotechföretaget Nextcell Pharma har fått klartecken för en klinisk prövning av sin läkemedelskandidat Protrans för behandling av andningskomplikationer i samband med covid-19-infektion.
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Column: "Are we already living in the new normal?"
2020 felt like the year that we were building the house around us whilst moving into it at the same time.
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Gedea får klartecken för studiestart
Företaget har nu fått grönt ljus i Storbritannien för att inleda studier med sin substans för antibiokafri behandling av bakteriell vaginos.
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Ny chef på Calmark
Michael Lund är ny QA/RA-chef på det Karlstadbaserade företaget.
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Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward
The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.
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Acetylsalicylsyra ger minskad risk för levercancer
Acetylsalicylsyra minskar risken för vuxna att drabbas av levercancer, visar en studie av forskare från Karolinska Institutet, Universitetssjukhuset Örebro i Sverige och Massachusetts General Hospital i Boston, USA.
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Piller med nålar gör inte ont
Biologiskt läkemedel i pillerform klarar fas I.
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Gedea får Horizon-pengar
Vill bli alternativ till antibiotika – Hoppas nå marknaden 2021.
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Första läkemedlet för bara en patient
I en ny artikel beskrivs det förmodade första fallet av ultra-personalized medicine – ett läkemedel till en åttaårig flicka med en ovanlig genetisk sjukdom.
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Kunskap om celler och syre gav Nobelpris
Nobelpristagarnas upptäckter har förklarat mekanismen bakom en livsnödvändig anpassningsförmåga i celler. Men det var först efter en felringning som Nobelförsamlingen till slut fick tag på alla tre pristagarna.
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