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Ingrid Lönnstedt: What does the p-value mean?
The smaller the better, and preferably smaller than 0.05. A p-value smaller than 5% means that the treatment effect is statistically significant at 5% significance level. But what does that mean? Read Ingrid Lönnstedt´s column to learn more.
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Abliva beviljas särläkemedelsstatus – igen
Lundbaserade Abliva har beviljats särläkemedelsstatus i EU för sin läkemedelskandidat NV354 för behandling av Leighs syndrom.
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A vaccine the world is waiting for: “It can change the lives of many”
A Solna laboratory is developing a vaccine that could save the lives of countless children in low- and middle-income countries. “Working on something that can make a difference for many people is important to me,” says Christine Hägglund, Laboratory Manager.
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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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Life science-profil på nytt jobb
Jennie Ekbeck, tidigare vd för Umeå Biotech Incubator, kommer fortsättningsvis att arbeta med affärsidéer inom life science i Östergötland.
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Nytt preparat utmanar ”fetmamedicinernas King Kong”
Slaget om marknaden för obesitasläkemedel fortsätter. Danska Novo Nordisk tar nu upp kampen mot medicinen som jämförts med en gastric bypass.
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Bioarctics vd hoppas på subkutan formulering
Läkemedelsbolaget Bioarctic ser inför 2024 fram emot att se hur Alzheimersbehandlingen Leqembi kommer att etablera sig på marknaden med allt fler lanseringar.
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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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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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Sårvårdsbolag i frivillig likvidation
Solnabaserade forskningsbolaget Promore Pharma har försatts i frivillig likvidation. Bakgrunden är ett nedlagt utvecklingsprojekt och svårigheter att få ny finansiering till kvarvarande projekt.
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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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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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Han får dubbla roller på Affibody
Biotechbolaget Affibody har utsett Peter Zerhouni till Chief Financial Officer, CFO. Han anställdes på företaget i april som Chief Business Officer, och kommer framöver att kombinera de bägge rollerna.
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Astra Zeneca i förlikning i USA – ska betala miljardbelopp
Astra Zeneca ska betala 425 miljoner dollar, motsvarande närmare 4,7 miljarder kronor, i samband med förlikningsavtal i USA kopplade till läkemedlen Nexium och Prilosec.
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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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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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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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Heidi Stensmyren is eager for new challenges in the biotech industry
Heidi Stensmyren has served as President of the Swedish Medical Association, held a managerial position at Karolinska University Hospital and is now Medical Director at a biotech company. “I’m curious and like to have influence, so I’ve often chosen management roles,” she says.
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Heidi Stensmyren söker nya utmaningar i biotech-branschen
Heidi Stensmyren har varit ordförande i Läkarförbundet, haft en chefsposition på Karolinska universitetssjukhuset och är nu medicinsk chef på ett biotech-företag. – Jag är nyfiken och gillar att påverka, således har jag ofta valt ledande roller, säger hon.
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Petter Hartman: ”Stora ord och höga ambitioner”
”Man får sannerligen hoppas att våra folkvalda är införstådda med allvaret när förslaget debatteras”, skriver Petter Hartman i en krönika om förslaget på en ny läkemedelslagstiftning för EU.
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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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Magsjuka på fjällstation – anläggning stänger
Kebnekaise fjällstation har haft en tuff sommar. I slutet av juni gick avloppssystemet sönder och i helgen bröt magsjuka ut på anläggningen. Nu väljer STF att stänga hela fjällstation några dagar för sanering.
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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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