Alert from the Swedish Medicines Agency: Many complications with gastric balloons

According to the Swedish Medicines Agency, an increasing number of serious complications are being reported in procedures with gastric balloons as a method for ...

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.

Cytel Inc acquires the SDS Group

The multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization Cytel Inc, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, acquires the Swedish consult...

Allt svårare att få testa på patient

I våras presenterade Forska Sverige oroväckande siffror på stadigt sjunkande antal startade kliniska prövningar i Sverige. Siffrorna har varit tydliga i flera å...

Marie Gårdmark: Finally, it’s time for a revision of the EU pharma legislation

A challenge for the EU Commission is to deliver a new framework that will also take care of another “pillar” of the pharmaceutical strategy, namely, to ensure t...

Uncertainty about the government’s life science work

The government’s national coordinator for life science, Jenni Nordborg, left her position almost four months ago. No one has yet succeeded her, and now question...

A new international stem cell research centre has been created in Copenhagen

A new centre for stem cell research opened to the public in January. The Novo Nordisk Foundation backs the initiative with the ambition that the centre will adv...

Forskare utvecklar kontaktlinser för att bota grön starr

Kinesiska forskare har utvecklat kontaktlinser som ska känna av om trycket i ögat stiger och därefter frigöra läkemedel för att sänka trycket vid behov. Förhopp...

Hon ska leda GSK:s spin-off inom konsumenthälsa

Haleon – så lyder namnet på det nya bolag inom konsumenthälsa som inom kort knoppas av från brittiska läkemedelsjätten Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK. – Den här lanseri...

Pfizer lays a chunky bid on Wyeth

The merger of two pharma giants is the largest industry deal so far this year. Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at app...

EU grants project on toxicity of nanomaterials

A multinational research project has have been awarded EUR 3 358 500 from the European Commission to study the hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on ...

Spara vatten och minska avfallet

Att tillverka den bästa produkten till ett konkurrenskraftigt pris är en utmaning. Spara vatten och minska avfallet med ett piggingsystem från DEFINOX.

Marie Gårdmark: Do EMA and FDA talk to each other?

Of course they do! The collaboration started already in 2003, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.

Coordination of world-class research facilities

Four unique world-class research facilities are located just a few hours apart. Properly utilised, a Nordic centre for world-leading life science innovation and...

Nostalgin har blivit vårt största hinder

Det är dags att sluta blicka bakåt och drömma om fornstora dagar, skriver Ingrid Heath, vice vd Sweden Bio.

Transatlantic cooperation for healthier food

Danish and American scientists are going to work together to find ways to fight malnutrition and life style disease like obesity in the western world.

Transatlantic cooperation for healthier food

Danish and American scientists are going to work together to find ways to fight malnutrition and life style disease like obesity in the western world.

She is Sweden´s new Minister of Healthcare

Today, Tuesday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who leads the Moderate Party and the centre-right coalition in Sweden, presented the government's new mi...

Kan Brexit ta EMA till Sverige?

En viktig fråga för life science-branschen vid Brexit är var den europeiska läkemedelsmyndigheten ska förlägga sitt nya högkvarter. Sweden Bio och AstraZeneca k...

Helena Strigård: The rise of the community

Sweden Bio´s CEO is looking back at the last decade of development in the industry. Something has shifted in the interdependence between small and larger companies.

Life science i Sverige behöver en renässans!

Helena Strigård, vice vd Swedenbio, om hur Sverige ska få ta del av life science-kakan i världen.

Noxious parasite forms hybrids and deceives the immune system

The small parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a nasty ability to cause serious illness. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have now mapped its ability to decei...

IRW Consulting is seeking Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) on positions located in Stockholm

A world-class research village

Eight years ago, Medicon Village was set up in Lund. Since then, this hub for research, innovation and business has developed enormously, and today the life sci...