Anna Törner: The clinical trial – Periscope to reality

What happens to the patients in the clinical trial is not very interesting, writes Anna Törner in a column.

I hjärtbussen blir fem undersökningar en

Läkare på Sahlgrenska samarbetar med Astrazeneca om ett nytt koncept: en hjärtbuss där patienter med hjärtsvikt kan få fem undersökningar på samma gång istället...

Bemis måste sälja medicinförpackningar

Ilya Pharma utvecklar behandling mot bieffekter av immunterapier mot cancer

Uppsalaföretaget Ilya Pharma planerar att inleda kliniska studier med sin läkemedelskandidat ILP100-Oral för patienter som drabbats av enterokolit, tunn- och tj...

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

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.

Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”

Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the tria...

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...

FOKUS Patient turns international

FOKUS Patient is arranging conferences over 3 days in October, and this year, the focus will be on international collaborations.

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 ...

Enjoy Stockholm - the capital of Scandinavia

Welcome to Stockholm! Built on 14 islands, you are never far from the water in the capital of Sweden. Stockholm offers a wide range of museums, theaters, and at...

Woman deficit in Swedish research

The IP firm Awapatent will soon launch its Innovation Barometer 2009. This year Awapatent reveals that the statistics is even worse, compared to last year.

IVI’s Director General on establishing in Sweden: Will need up to 40 employees

The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, hopes to have its first staff on-site in Stockholm within a couple of months, says the institute’s Director General Je...

Ready-to-install solutions for the lab-on-a-chip

Design for manufacturing lab-on-a-chip devices Reducing time-to-market together

The TFS family is growing

TFS HealthScience is a European based CRO company with broad expertise and experiences in the biotech and pharmaceutical sector. The company is growing and the ...

Inga spår av coronavirus när Londons tunnelbana undersöktes

En nyligen genomförd stickprovsundersökning i Londons tunnelbana visade inga spår av sars-cov-2.

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...

Studie: Så länge klarar sig corona på olika ytor

Klarar sig i timmar i luftburna aerosoler och i flera dagar på olika ytor.

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 opportuni...

We are poor lobbyists

I doubt there has ever been a really well thought out Scandinavian campaign with intentions to really change attitudes among both the public and politicians.

Precisionsläkemedel tas in i förmånssystemet

För första gången tas ett cancerläkemedel som är riktat mot en specifik genförändring upp i förmånen. Läkemedelsföretaget Bayer är kritiskt till att subventione...

Kit för Chip-experiment

Nu finns ett nytt kit som ska göra experiment med kromatinimmunoprecipitering (Chip) enklare.

“We aim to be a start-up company with an academic spirit”

Chronic pain and Alzheimer’s are two diseases that plague many people worldwide and seem impossible to cure. However, Huddinge-based company Alzecure is working...

Astra Zeneca pausar test av covid-vaccin

Skälet till att företaget tillfälligt stoppar sina kliniska prövningar med vaccinet är att en studiedeltagare fått en sjukdom och det ska utredas om det finns n...