When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend

Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advanc...

Björn Arvidsson: ”We need to change perspective”

If you say “life science” to a person on the street and ask them to explain what it is, you will probably get no good answer. The same question to your network ...

Pfizer’s record year – topped the $100 billion mark

In 2022 Pfizer, as the first pharmaceutical company in history, reached an annual revenue of more than 100 billion dollars, thereby surpassing Johnson & Johnson...

Test ska visa om antibiotika fungerar

En metod utvecklad av forskare från Karolinska insitutet ska kunna hjälpa till att visa om bakterier svarar på en antibiotikabehandling. De har nu startat ett f...

Överraskande studieresultat om testosteron – Minskade inte risk för frakturer

Det är känt att behandling med testosteron ökar bentäthet och benkvalitet. Men nu tyder en studie på att tillförsel av det manliga könshormonet ändå inte medför...

Samuel Lagercrantz: Immunotherapy against cancer is still in its early stages

For more than 100 years, researchers have tried to target the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. They have occasionally been laughed at and ridicul...

Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”

Failed investments in primary care, an unreasonable system with online doctors and a public failure at coordinating the healthcare IT system. Göran Stiernstedt ...

Ny CBO hos Bioinvent

Cancerforskningsföretaget Bioinvent har rekryterat Sylvie Ryckebusch till rollen som Chief Business Officer.

Guard Therapeutics: ”Mötet med FDA är en tydlig validering av våra kliniska fas II-data”

Det svenska bioteknikföretaget Guard Therapeutics meddelar att de fått positiv återkoppling från den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten, FDA, efter ett möte gäll...

AstraZeneca moves to brewery quarters in central Copenhagen

AstraZeneca in Denmark is moving its business into central Copenhagen and the old brewery quarters in Carlsberg Byen.

Study: Chat GPT is more empathetic than doctors

The AI tool Chat GPT is not only more accurate when it comes to answering patient questions – the chatbot is also perceived as almost 10 times more empathetic t...

He will be the new chair of Medicon Valley Alliance

Niels Abel Bonde is the nomination committee’s proposal and the most likely person to take over as the new chairman of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster o...

Studie: Svår covid-19 ger försvagat immunförsvar i minst ett halvår

Allvarlig covid-19-sjukdom påverkar immunförsvaret negativt i minst ett halvår efter tillfrisknandet, enligt en studie från Linköpings universitet.

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...

Tablett med semaglutid gav viktminskning

Läkemedelssubstansen semaglutid är effektiv för viktminskning även när den ges i tablettform, enligt en fas 3-studie.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Collaboration and joint efforts are the key to success

Although many questions about Covid-19 remain unanswered, the development of drugs and vaccines has been incredibly rapid, writes Samuel Lagercrantz, Life Scien...

Genes from Neanderthals can affect the correct drug dosage

A fifth of all Europeans carry gene variants inherited from Neanderthals, which cause certain drugs to break down more slowly. This may have implications for th...

TCO easy comparison of electric and pneumatic solutions

Find the right technology for your application and compare CO₂ emission and TCO The shown results are not based on a sizing calculation, parameters like service...

She creates pharmaceuticals on a 3D printer

The correct dosage for each individual, regardless of whether the pharmaceutical is for a seriously ill child or a frail elderly person, is the mission of a wel...

New diagnostic test soon ready for the market

New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”

In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and...

Klart med CRO för Index

Index Pharmaceuticals har ingått avtal med CRO Parexel för Conduct-studien.

Så mycket väntas lecanemab sälja globalt

Försäljningen av Leqembi (lecanemab), som nyligen fick ett accelererat USA-godkännande som behandling mot Alzheimers sjukdom, väntas globalt uppgå till sju milj...

Brittisk patient smittad av variant av svininfluensa

En variant av svininfluensa har för första gången bekräftats hos en man i Storbritannien.