INTERACTION. Our new Imaging and Intervention Center is set to create new opportunities for collaboration between medicine, technology and research, with a number of projects from these three areas presented at a seminar at Sahlgrenska University Hospital this week. The seminar started with representatives of SU, the Sahlgrenska Academy and Chalmers sharing their views on opportunities to benefit from each other’s expertise. “The Sahlgrenska Academy is already our main partner,…
New European cooperation for better measurement of the effects of Alzheimer medicines
RESEARCH. AgeCap is the only Swedish partner in a new European cooperation to examine how to better measure the effects of drugs used to fight Alzheimer’s disease. These efforts may ultimately lead to better medicines. The project is called ROADMAP, which is an acronym for “Real world Outcomes across the Alzheimer’s Disease spectrum for better care: Multi-modal data Access Platform”, and it recently kicked off with a meeting in Barcelona.…
Henrik Sjövall: What is truth?
CHRONICLE. Henrik Sjövall takes us along to Cochrane’s most recent conference in Seoul, South Korea. Cochrane is a non-profit grassroots organization that assures the quality of the global knowledge flow. In his column, he draws a comparison to the HTA Center, which is the Region Västra Götaland ‘s local version of Cochrane. “And then Pilate asked: What is truth?” and the echo responded – the prophet remained silent. With the riddle’s…
Worrying traces of resistant bacteria in air
NEW STUDY. Polluted city air has now been identified as a possible means of transmission for resistant bacteria. Researchers in Gothenburg have shown that air samples from Beijing contain DNA from genes that make bacteria resistant to the most powerful antibiotics we have. “This may be a more important means of transmission than previously thought,” says Joakim Larsson, a professor at Sahlgrenska Academy and director of the Centre for Antibiotic…
Increased occurrence of serious mental illness among factory workers producing viscose
HONORARY DOCTOR 2016. Paul Blanc, a newly appointed honorary doctor at Sahlgrenska Academy, is not only a leading researcher in occupational medicine, but also in the history of the field. In his lecture at the Arvid Carlsson Lecture Hall, he described how, for 150 years, the rayon industry clearly prioritized profit over people in the production of viscose. In a few weeks, Paul Blanc’s new book will be published on…