Varningen: Risker med Mysimba inte klarlagda

De långsiktiga kardiovaskulära riskerna med viktläkemedlet Mysimba är inte helt utredda. Därför införs nu rekommendationer till hälso- och sjukvården om årlig bedömning.

Lonza

High biological age is linked to a higher risk of dementia and stroke

It is a well-known fact that people age at different rates, and a recent study at the Karolinska Institute suggests that people with a biological age higher tha...

Universitetssjukhusen bildar allians – ska stärka framtidens vård

Den högspecialiserade vården, forskningen och utbildningen behöver stärkas i Sverige anser samtliga sju universitetssjukhus som nu går samman i vad de kallar ”e...

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% significa...

Cytel Sweden

AI speeds up measurement process

How to inspect coatings ten times faster with a light microscope? The medical technology group Smith+Nephew has been using ZEISS Axio Imager.Z2m since summer 2022.

Raised millions to develop a treatment for ´butterfly children´

Fragile as a butterfly’s wing – that’s how people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa are usually described. The Lund-based company Xinnate recently raised SEK 10...

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

Explore the latest trends and innovations in quality assurance and manufacturing

ZEISS QUALITY INNOVATION SUMMIT in Berlin, October 22-24, 2024.

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 m...

Fetmaläkemedlet Wegovy oroar livsmedelsföretag – ”De är rädda”

Novo Nordisks vd Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen uppger att han har fått telefonsamtal från chefer i livsmedelssektorn som ser det aptitdämpande läkemedlet Wegovy som ett hot.

A+ Science AB

He is zooming in on topical preparations

According to Zelmic CEO David Sagna, topical products in drug development is a growing market, and to keep pace with the development, the company is awaiting ap...

Specific proposals and targets top the universities’ desired priorities

What are the universities’ expectations for the update of the national life science strategy? Life Science Sweden posed the question to representatives from Kar...

Marie Gårdmark: ”Interchangeable biological medicines – soon in a pharmacy near you?”

”Generic competition is an effective way to push down drug prices, but it has not worked equally well for biosimilars. Biosimilars require more time to gain mar...

Decades of research destroyed at KI – a hacker attack cannot be ruled out!

Years of research, together with half a billion Swedish krona, went up in smoke when the freezers at Karolinska Institutet overheated. The breakdown has now bee...

De ska ge regeringen råd om life science

En rådgivande grupp bestående av experter från akademin, industrin och hälso- och sjukvården har nu utsetts. Gruppens syfte är att bistå Regeringskansliets life...

Galenica AB

Clean solutions - Handling viscose substances with precision

Laboratories in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food technology industries are increasingly relying on automation for sample preparation. The Mo...

Ingrid Lönnstedt: Demystification of the power of a scientific study

”You surely do realize that even the smallest changes in study assumptions may influence the estimated sample size needed. And how is it even possible to guess ...

SGS Fimko Ltd.

Medicon Valley Alliance

No longer afraid of the dentist.

Teaching robot with piezo technology