Meet the governmental life science office

More clinical trials, promotion for digitisation and interoperability together with increased use of data generated by both healthcare and individuals. The duti...

Sweden is heavily criticised for not ordering Covid vaccine

Valneva and the EU Commission have entered into an agreement for 1.25 million doses of the company’s Covid vaccine, but Sweden has not placed an order.

The stomach medication that became the biggest blockbuster of the 1990s

The omeprazole molecule was synthesised as early as 1979, but it took many years before the then Astra had an approved pharmaceutical. Once this happened, a tab...

Behov av polypkirurgi nästan utplånat i studie

Problemen med polyper hos patienter med kronisk bihåleinflammation minskade kraftigt i en studie som utvärderade Tezspire från Astra Zeneca och Amgen.

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Experience our latest innovation from the Control fair.

Mastering Urine Microscopy: Techniques for Accurate Disease Detection

Live Webinar on September 25, 2024.

Promising Alzheimer’s study data sends Bioarctic stock soaring

The drug candidate lecanemab from Swedish company Bioarctic significantly slowed down the deterioration in patients with early on-set Alzheimer’s, according to ...

Automated dispensing of a viscous hydrogel

A suitable solution developed for UPM Biomedicals In the Festo LifeTech Application Center we tested a setup for UPM Biomedicals for the automatic dispensing of...

Storvarsel på Eisai i USA – 121 tjänster ska bort

Eisai fortsätter satsa på den amerikanska marknaden och hoppas på en potentiell tillväxtvåg med alzheimerläkemedlet Leqembi. Trots det genomför bolaget en störr...

Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval

"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...

Study: Cancer vaccine prolongs survival in difficult-to-treat tumour disease

According to a new study, a combination of a cancer vaccine from Norwegian company Ultimovacs and two immunotherapies significantly prolonged survival in cases ...

Delivering drugs with small devices

There are many challenges to overcome when delivering a drug orally. Getting the drug to survive the low pH of the ventricle and being released at the correct s...

Roche överväger stoppa USA-satsning om Trump fullföljer läkemedelsplan

President Donald Trumps försök att pressa internationella företag att investera mer i USA, bland annat genom kontroversiella tullar kan få motsatt effekt. Nu öv...

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 that new medicines will be available for all citizens in Europe, writes Marie Gårdmark...

Studie stärker kopplingen mellan graviditetsdiabetes och autism

Barn till mödrar med graviditetsdiabetes löper en större risk att diagnostiseras med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar, jämfört med barn vars mödrar inte...

Recipharm divests five Swedish plants

Swedish contract manufacturer Recipharm is selling its facilities in Solna, Strängnäs, Höganäs, Karlskoga and Uppsala OTC Development to US private equity compa...

New diagnostic test soon ready for the market

Before you choose a CRO

– We are a small company and it is very important for us to maintain our core competence within development of novel nanomaterials, Tove Sivik Sonne, Head of De...

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...

Trumps nya FDA-chef varnar för "massiv övermedicinering"

Donald Trump har nominerat kirurgen och författaren Marty Makary till ny chef för den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA, som enligt den tillträdande preside...

The Swedish government is to increase its investment in cancer care

The Swedish government wants to invest more in cancer and paediatric cancer care and proposes to allocate SEK 500 million per year for this purpose in the coming years.

Start-up developing ”digital twin” received award during the EIT Health Summit

A biotech company, a medtech company and a company in digital health were on the podium when the EIT Health Catapult awarded its winners.

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 disca...

Läkemedelsverket till Gisslén: Varje läkare fri att göra egen bedömning

Den avgående statsepidemiologen Magnus Gisslén har ifrågasatt de centorkriterier som Läkemedelsverkets rekommenderar som stöd för att identifiera halsfluss orsa...