Okt 14, 2020 | EN, pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy
After several pharmacies in Germany received a message from the Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato that 13,000 euros will soon have to be paid in advance for a monthly dose of „Orkambi“ on behalf of the biopharmaceutical company Vertex, based in Boston, USA,...
Okt 14, 2020 | Diabetes, EN
The autumn conference of the DDG, the German Diabetes Society, will take place online this year due to the corona pandemic. This year’s conference president Ralf Lobmann, who also holds the directorate of the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Geriatrics...
Okt 14, 2020 | EN, hospitals
The Federal Statistical Office has analyzed the number of German hospital beds in 2018 compared to 1991 and found that their number has decreased by 25 percent. Whereas in 1991, according to the analysis, there were 666,000 beds in a total of 2,411 hospitals and...
Okt 8, 2020 | Digitalization, EN, market knowledge
From January 2022, only e-prescriptions will be prescribed in Germany. In the meantime, there is a clear timetable according to which the associations involved are to provide contracts for the electrical prescription of remedies and aids as early as the end of the...