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Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?
When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely expensive treatments with biological drugs. So, how well has Swedish healthcare used biosimilars? The answer partly depends on whom you ask.
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Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire
In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move its production abroad. 34-year-old Thomas was facing an imminent risk of losing his job. However, instead, it actually turned out to be the starting point for one of the biggest success stories in Swedish life science.
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Lovande resultat i studier om ALS – verkningsmekanism klarlagd
Läkemedelsföretaget Tikomeds läkemedelskandidat för behandling av ALS har fått verkningsmekanismen klarlagd i Frontiers in Pharmacology. Resultat från studierna tyder på att kandidaten både mobiliserar och modulerar tillväxtfaktorer, vilka utlöser mekanismer som skyddar nervsystemet.
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Björn Arvidsson: “We need robust and recognized ecosystems for continued competitiveness”
“We have idea carriers and excellent innovation opportunities, and now we must invest in creating ecosystems that provide them with even better growth opportunities,” Björn Arvidsson writes in a column.
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The first vaccine derived from cowpox
The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the world’s first smallpox vaccination, and a medical breakthrough had occurred.
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No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”
So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be discarded due to lack of demand in Sweden as well as globally,” says Sweden’s National Vaccine Coordinator Richard Bergström to Life Science Sweden.
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Investments worth 40 billion in the Öresund region – “A huge investment wave”
A new report reveals that medical companies in the Oresund region are investing like never before.
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Universitet erbjuder platser till ukrainska forskare
Forskningslaboratorier världen över öppnar sina dörrar för forskare från Ukraina. Vid Stockholms universitet står nu flera kemilabb beredda att ta emot ukrainska kollegor.
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Så mycket tjänar naturvetare inom life science
Naturvetare inom den privata life science-sektorn hade dubbelt så bra löneutveckling i fjol som arbetsmarknaden i stort. Men de som jobbar i den offentliga sektorn har halkat efter rejält, visar nya siffor från fackförbundet Naturvetarna.
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Capitainer tar in provtagningsexpert inför satsning i USA
Donald H Chace ska representera Capitainer i Nordamerika när det svenska medicinteknikföretaget satsar på den amerikanska marknaden.
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Studie: AI-system lika bra som patologer på diagnos av prostatacancer
AI-system kan identifiera och gradera prostatacancer i vävnadsprover lika bra som patologer. Det menar forskare på bland annat Karolinska institutet som genomfört en omfattande internationell validering.
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