A number of Norwegian companies have made a difference in the lives of patients all over the world.
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Tremendous strides have been made in the fields of medicine and pharmaceuticals during the past century.
These are the result of large and small advances made at laboratories, universities and hospitals around the globe. Below is a look at four Norwegian companies that have made vital contributions to medical science and who are poised to continue their ground-breaking work.
Ensuring reliable lab results
Modern medicine is practiced just as much in the laboratory as on a hospital ward. Laboratory tests of human samples – such as for identifying and measuring viruses, bacteria and microscopic components of the human body – are essential for determining a diagnosis, selecting the best course of treatment and dispensing the right dose of medicine. But how can one ensure that methods and equipment yield reliable results?
Laboratory quality control is the answer. And it was invented in Norway.
It has a steadily growing portfolio of standard and tailor-made products that are used around the globe for quality control of lab tests and calibration of equipment. The global market for laboratory quality control is currently some USD 905 million. Thanks to Norwegian research, doctors and researchers worldwide can trust their lab results.
Some types of cancer are more difficult to treat than others. When cancer has spread to the bones, for example, there are few alternatives.
Some 1.3 million men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year.
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In 1977, Professor John Ugelstad at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology managed to solve a problem that had been puzzling researchers for years: creating a set of microscopic beads of exactly the same size. Mapping blood flow in the heart
Cardiovascular disease is the world’s most common cause of death, and the risk increases with age. Cardiac tests are thus some of the most important and fundamental medical procedures there are.
When doctors examine whether a heart is beating as it should be, they use ultrasound, which provides a living picture of the heart’s functioning. However, at the end of the 1970s there were no effective methods of obtaining a detailed picture of how the blood flows through the heart.
This gave doctors a new, more accurate tool for diagnosing disease and irregularities, which is now used to examine roughly 200 000 hearts each day.
The technology, too, is steadily evolving. For example, the company recently launched the first pocket-sized ultrasound with two transducers in one probe, giving much greater flexibility in the use of ultrasound.
Ensuring reliable lab results
Modern medicine is practiced just as much in the laboratory as on a hospital ward. Laboratory tests of human samples – such as for identifying and measuring viruses, bacteria and microscopic components of the human body – are essential for determining a diagnosis, selecting the best course of treatment and dispensing the right dose of medicine
Laboratory quality control is the answer.it has a steadily growing portfolio of standard and tailor-made products that are used around the globe for quality control of lab tests and calibration of equipment. The global market for laboratory quality control is currently some USD 905 million. Thanks to Norwegian research, doctors and researchers worldwide can trust their lab results.
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