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Sixteen elderly Norwegians in the town of Bærum have been testing an automatic drug dispenser in their homes to determine if the device can take over the job from home health aides.  Users who tested the drug dispensers ranged in age from 68 to 96 and exhibited a variety of disabilities such as paralysis, reduced […]

Almost 10,000 Norwegians suffer hip fractures every year, many of them occurring in the winter. These injuries take a heavy toll in terms of costs, time and long-term health affects. Every year about 30 percent of all people over age 65 experience a fall. “The costs of treatment, rehabilitation and nursing home services amount to […]

Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet plans to launch a massive open online course (MOOC) in the area of e-health. Called MOOC eHealth –Opportunities and Challenges, the course is being delivered via the non-profit international education group edX, which started as a collaboration between Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The course begins April 22 and […]

PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopolymer-based drug manufacturer, has raised $40 million in a Series C round of funding, which includes a major share from AstraZeneca. Existing investors New Enterprise Associates, Hatteras Venture Partners and Johnson & Johnson Innovation were also involved in the financing round, according to BioSpace.  “AstraZeneca is committed to bringing innovative treatments […]

Thermo Scientific’s SampleManager LIMS  now includes method execution, lab and data management and full enterprise software integration and is compatible with all popular enterprise-level software packages. SampleManager can be connected to customers’ existing informatics infrastructures, regardless of which or how many instrument vendors they use. This enables labs to execute and manage all their laboratory […]

Vigilant Biosciences, Inc., has entered into a three-year exclusive sales and marketing agreement with Biotech-IgG AB for the distribution of the OncAlert Oral Cancer Risk Assessment System in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The OncAlert Oral Cancer Risk Assessment System includes a rapid, point-of-care risk assessment test (OncAlert POC Test) and a quantitative, laboratory test (OncAlert […]