
Pharma Diagnostics - July 10, 2015
Center to Focus on Lyme Disease
Uppsala University Hospital’s infectious disease unit is launching a pilot project to evaluate and treat patients with protracted, chronic pain and to determine if they have Lyme disease or another insect-borne illness. The center is scheduled to start accepting referrals Sept. 15 and pilot projects begin Oct. 6. “The target group is patients who have […]

Uncategorized - April 8, 2015
New Epilepsy Unit at Uppsala U.
A new department for the investigation of severe epilepsy has opened at Uppsala University Hospital. Patients can be examined with new EEC-and camera equipment and the department is staffed 24 hours a day, five days a week. The target population for the new department is people with severe epilepsy who have frequent, recurrent attacks that […]

Uncategorized - February 5, 2015
Athena Prize Goes to Cancer Vaccine
Sweden’s Athena Prize, healthcare’s largest prize for clinical research, was awarded this year to physician and Associate Professor Alex Karlsson-Parra, of Uppsala University Hospital and founder of the company Immunicum. The company specializes in developing therapeutic cancer vaccines. The prize, which consists of a research grant of $150 000, was awarded in December at the Swedish […]

Uncategorized - November 27, 2014
Test ID’s Antibiotic Resistance
Scientists from Uppsala University, the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm and Uppsala University Hospital have developed a new method of rapidly identifying which bacteria are causing an infection and determining whether they are resistant or sensitive to antibiotics. The findings are now being published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. ‘Clinical use of […]