A new medical method may help vascular disease

Friday, 15 June 2012
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg have managed to implant a blood vessel made from a patientâ€™s own stem cells in a ten year old, sick girl. One year after surgery she now is doing pretty fine making the researchers to hope that this could be a method to assist patients who need bypass surgery.

The process involves approach, in making the vein perform better took three to four weeks, according to Michael Olausson, a professor at the Transplantation Center at the hospital. The vein for the girl was obtained from a donation from a deceased person, reports radio Sweden.

“Then we have removed all cells and all the genetic material, and after that we have brought stem cells from the patient who will receive the blood vessel and then grow this vessel out again,” says Michael Olausson, Professor and Director of the Transplant Center at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg to radio Sweden.

At the moment, Michael Olausson and his team believe that the approach could be of great help to many people with plug formation in their blood vessels and that they need to undergo a so-called "bypass surgery".

Asked how important is it that the patient's own stem cells are included in the vein? Michael Olausson replied that it has to do with the immune system recognizing the tissue as its own and thus will not reject it. For him and the patient, it's a big advantage. All the medications that are normally given to avoid the body rejecting the new cell is very powerful and can cause side effects, so it is desirable to avoid them.

He adds that this new method is also very important so that “we’ll be able to solve problem around such things as hearts or kidneys in the future. The next big step for us is probably a work around to get arteries to function well. This opens the door and then maybe, be able to produce whole organs,” says Michael Olausson.
By Scancomark.se Team

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Political Economy

Looks like the Social Democrats finally identify a tool to hit the Swedish coalition parties with as their poll standing improve markedly

Friday, 24 February 2012
With the new party leader in the man of Stefan Löfven at the helm, the Social Democrats in Sweden which has been limping and playing the second fiddle behind the Conservatives and the bourgeoisies government seems to be seeing a change in fortune recent opinion polling. The partyâ€™s opinion interest rose by 5.6 percentage points to 29.3 percent in February in an Ipsos survey for the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.

The Moderate sloped by 3.6 percentage points to 32.1 percent.
“Now it seems the party has been structured to match forward again, “said Ipsos CEO Karin Nelson to Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter which commissioned the survey.

She says it is not possible to determine whether the improvement is as a result of relief after Hakan Juholts departure or Stefan Löfven effect.
“What we mainly see is that the voters who went to the Left Party and Green Party are now returning to the Social Democrats. Left Party’s rise in January seems more to have been connected with the crisis in the Social Democrats and not a Jonas Sjöstedt-effect, “according to Nelson.

She does not want to sound the all clear for the Social Democrats.
“There has been a rebound, but it that is permanent, we have no idea, “she told the paper.

Together, the three red-green opposition parties stand at 46.1 percent and the four non-socialist government parties 47.2 percent. Christian Democrats are increasing but still fall under the parliamentary threshold. The People Party and the Centre party are also progressing slightly, while the far right Sweden Democrats slope.

The differences between the blocks are the smallest in six months, only 1.1 percent compared with 11.6 percent in November.

Voter opinion according to Ipso

Lot / Block	Voter Assistance *	Change **
Alliance (M, FP, C, KD)	47.2	-1.9
Red-green (S, MP, V)	46.1	2
Individual party performances
Moderates	32.1	-3.6
The Liberal Party	6.2	0.4
The Centre Party	5	0.4
The Christian Democrats	3.9	0.8
The Social Democrats	29.3	5.6
The Green Party	9	-1.7
The Left	7.7	-1.9
Sweden Democrats	5.5	-0.3
* The percent in February 2012 ** In percentage points from the previous assessment. Results based on 2185 random telephone interviews during the period February 6 to 22 acried out by Ipsos formerly Synovate.