More people die from kidney disease than from breast or prostate cancer each year. Many of these deaths could be avoided if the patient had a kidney transplant, but there is a shortage of donors.The next best option is dialysis, but it is quite a complicated procedure...
A new treatment for breast cancer is currently being tested at the University Hospital in Uppsala. In the first tests, the treatment has been much more effective than the best of those currently available."The first studies of Enhertu as the drug is called, show...
The American pharmaceutical company Merck has developed a pill that in studies has proven effective against Covid-19.In the tests, one group received the drug, called Molnupiravir, as soon as they were diagnosed with Covid-19. Another group received a placebo pill. Of...
A research group at Uppsala University has developed a method that could mean improved chances to treat Alzheimer's disease. While treatments available today have marginal effects, the Uppsala researchers' method works in a slightly different way.When...
In 2019, 274,000 children died of malaria, but a new method could bring that figure down dramatically. In an experiment in Burkina Faso and Mali, the number of children in need of hospital care decreased by as much as 70 percent.The method has been developed by an...
On average, it takes ten years and costs 800 million euros to develop a vaccine. But the covid vaccines show that the process can be much faster, and the EU now wants to expand on this to develop vaccines against all sorts of diseases quickly."Against covid-19,...