Lucy Robertshaw: Artificial intelligence – is this really going to transform a patient’s life?

In a column Lucy Robertshaw reflects on how AI and new regulations will affect healthcare, innovation and the lives of future patients.

Uppsala-based company wins important patent dispute – but the decision is subject to appeal

A US district court has ruled in favour of Orexo in a dispute over the patent protecting the Swedish company’s drug Zubsolv, developed for treating patients wit...

Bioarctic granted Japanese patent for Parkinson’s disease candidate

Bioarctic has been granted a Japanese patent for its antibodies targeting Parkinson’s disease.

Pfizer drar tillbaka omtalat läkemedel efter koppling till dödsfall

Pfizer drar omedelbart in sitt läkemedel Oxbryta mot sicklecellssjukdom på alla marknader. Orsaken är man upptäckt en misstänkt koppling till förhöjd risk för k...

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Gothenburg-based company acquired by Norwegian diagnostics group

Gentian Diagnostics acquires Gothenburg-based Getica.

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...

Small robots to deliver pharmaceuticals to the body

Robots that can operate inside the body and a platform that combines ultrasound with AI. These are a couple of the technologies that have qualified for a list t...

Årets opinionsartiklar 2023

Nu lider 2023 mot sitt slut. Här är några av krönikorna, debattartiklarna och ledarna från det gångna året från Life Science Sweden och systertidningarna Medtec...

Neanderthal gene variants may cause Viking disease

A new study suggests that the so-called Viking disease, which affects the hand function in many older people, may be linked to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals.

Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”

The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster

Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish gov...

Rapid developments in AI – “All stakeholders are struggling to understand it”

Artificial intelligence is being discussed more and more, and developments in the field are moving rapidly. As the Swedish Medical Products Agency testifies, ke...

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

Studie kopplar storsäljande läkemedel till ökad risk för ögonsjukdom

De storsäljande fetma- och diabetesläkemedlen Wegovy och Ozempic kan vara förknippade med förhöjd risk för en sällsynt ögonsjukdom, enligt en studie, vars utfor...

Studie: Omtalat diabetesläkemedel kan ha effekt mot leversjukdom

Efter framgångarna inom diabetes och viktminskning – nu pekas ytterligare ett potentiellt terapiområde ut för Ozempic och andra GLP1-analoger. I en ny studie ko...

Ännu ett Alzheimerläkemedel godkänt – lecanemab får konkurrens

Eli Lillys läkemedel donanemab mot Alzheimers godkändes på tisdagen av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA. Det är det andra godkända bromsläkemedlet mot ...

Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients

In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.

Faster development of reliable sample handling

Festo USA has collaborated with PerkinElmer to develop a compact sample handling solution for a global leader in manufacturing medical devices. Thanks to the cu...

"Patienterna får ingen jämlik behandling inom landet"

Satsningar på effektiv och säker hantering av patientdata och jämlik tillgång till läkemedel är något av vad Penilla Gunther, grundare av Fokus Patient och ordf...

Novo Nordisk buys drug candidate in billion dollar deal

The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk have made an agreement with KBP Biosciences to aqcuire the hypertension drug ocedurenone for up to 1.3 billion doll...

Integrated solutions for liquid handling

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Double up for Korbinian Löbmann

This year, Korbinian Löbmann will moderate the New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meeting in Copenhagen for the fifth time. Furthermore, he will ...

He got inside the head of Sweden’s vaccine hunter

The hunt for the COVID-19 vaccine is the theme of the new book Vaccinjägaren (The Vaccine Hunter). It tells the story of Richard Bergström’s mission as Sweden’s...