Collaboration - January 15, 2021
Lundbeck and Rigshospitalet announce brain disease partnership
Lundbeck enters a partnership with the Department of Neurosurgery at Rigshospitalet, which will provide new insights into how molecules enter the brain. The partnership gives researchers an opportunity to study fluids surrounding the brain to learn which compounds enter the brain and how they are distributed. The findings will be published as basic research, but […]
Uncategorized - May 26, 2015
Too Many Painkillers Can Make Headaches Worse
A recent study has demonstrated that people with chronic headaches who take too many painkillers only make their pain worse, and that can lead to depression and anxiety. “This is really important,” says associate professor and lead author Lars Bendtsen of the Department of Clinical Medicine at Copenhagen University and the Danish Headache Centre at […]
Uncategorized - January 20, 2015
Could Lasers Replace Chemo?
Physicists from the University of Copenhagen and doctors from Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, are investigating whether nanoparticles and laser light can replace chemotherapy in the treatment of malignant tumors. Researchers have found that when laser light strikes nanoparticles placed in a malignant tumor, the particles can get so hot that they burn the tumor away. While the results from tests on mice were […]
Uncategorized - April 17, 2014
New findings on prostate cancer treatment
Rigshospitalet in Denmark has developed a new type of treatment using alpha rays in liquid form which has fewer side-effects and means better chances of survival for patients with prostate cancer. The substance is injected into the arteries through a venflon catheter and then it flows around with the blood and becomes trapped in the […]
