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33 kvinnor i Uppsala fick livmodern bortopererad i onödan
Efter felaktiga diagnoser vid Akademiska sjukhuset i Uppsala har det opererats bort 33 livmödrar i onödan. ”En fruktansvärd nyhet”, kommenterar sjukvårdsminister Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD).
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Stora tidskriftsförlag stämda – ”Pengar har dikterat möjligheten att nå ut med forskning”
Just nu pågår en rättsprocess i USA mot sex stora förlag för vetenskapliga tidskrifter. En grupp forskare hävdar att förlagen ”konspirerat” på ett sätt som förhindrar vetenskapliga framsteg.
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Her company is developing a new tablet form obesity drug
Obesity and diabetes are the primary targets of a new tablet treatment under development by Malmö-based Pila Pharma. The company’s ambition is to take on the billion-selling GLP1 analogues. ‘‘Basically, I expect all the beneficial effects that they have, but not the same side effect profile,’’ company founder Dorte X Gram said in an interview with Life Science Sweden.
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Stockholm and Uppsala jointly form a life science cluster
Stockholm and Uppsala are strengthening cooperation in medical research and biotech.
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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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Virusforskaren om marburg: ”Det är bra att vara på tårna”
Med anledning av utbrottet av marburg i Rwanda höjer Sverige nu beredskapen. Virusforskaren Ali Mirazimi tycker det är bra att svenska myndigheter reagerar trots att risken för ett utbrott i Sverige bedöms vara mycket låg.
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Brasilien utrotar fruktad sjukdom
Världens sjätte folkrikaste land, Brasilien, har lyckats utrota parasitsjukdomen lymfatisk filariasis, även kallad elefantiasis eller elefantsjuka.
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Anna Törner: ”Mom, do you think you’ll ever get married again?”
”I realize I’m slowly descending into that familiar statistical rabbit hole, where life’s biggest uncertainties are reduced to point estimates and confidence intervals”, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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Johan Pehrson takes over the responsibility for research policy in Sweden
The Liberals' party leader Johan Pehrson takes over the assignment as Minister for Education. This was announced by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) on Tuesday last week.
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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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AI-företag köper tillgång till vetenskapliga studier – ”Svårt att reagera som forskare”
Stora förlag för vetenskapliga tidskrifter har i miljonaffärer sålt tillgång till studier till techbolag som utvecklar AI-verktyg. Reaktionerna bland svenska forskare är blandade.
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Kris för hajpat genredigeringsbolag – ”Stämningen har skiftat”
Upp som en sol, ner som en pannkaka. Så kan utvecklingen för det upphaussade amerikanska genredigeringsbolaget Tome Biosciences beskrivas.
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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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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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Eli Lillys nya alzheimerkandidat misslyckades i fas II
Kort efter att läkemedelsjätten Eli Lilly fått ett efterlängtat godkännande för sitt första alzheimerläkemedel kommer ett bakslag för nästa kandidat.
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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
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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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Västsvenska life science-aktörer rattar EU-projekt inom precisionsmedicin
Ett nytt projekt ska koppla samman innovationssystem i hela Europa för att få fart på implementeringen av precisionsmedicin. Och spindel i nätet är en rad tunga västsvenska life science-aktörer.
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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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EMA review confirms a risk of new cancer after CAR-T
CAR-T cancer therapies can, in rare cases, induce secondary cancers. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) now recognises this and requires a warning label to be attached to the product information and patients to be followed up for life.
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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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Tummen ned för ecstacyläkemedel mot posttraumatisk stress
En expertpanel avråder FDA från att godkänna en MDMA-baserad behandling mot posttraumatiskt stressyndrom, PTSD. Beskedet innebär att bakslag för förhoppningar om nya behandlingar inom det psykedeliska området.
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Sofia Wallström is Lif's new CEO
Sofia Wallström has been appointed as the new CEO of the industry organization Lif, the trade association for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden.
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