Sep. 2, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
A statutory health insurance member recently filed a lawsuit because the tax office reduced the bonus contribution refund for so-called health-conscious behaviour as a special expenses deduction and thus as taxable income. The Saxonian tax court did not see this...
Sep. 2, 2020 | EN, research, study, therapy
Scientists of the Medical College of Georgia in the USA could show in a study with 33 people that fecal incontinence can be reduced with a special form of magnetic stimulation that is painless, non-invasive and targeted. Fecal incontinence affects mainly women with an...
Sep. 2, 2020 | company news @en, Digitalization, EN
The Central Association for Digital Healthcare (SVDGV) will have a new managing director, Dr. Anne Sophie Geier, who will head the association’s fortunes on October 1, 2020. Geier would like to establish the still young industry as a new pillar of healthcare in...
Sep. 2, 2020 | drugs, EN, mailorder, pharmacy
The mail-order pharmacy Apo-Discounter is meanwhile the third in the alliance, which offers products and approximately 200 pharmacy-requiring, but not prescription drugs with automatic reordering in the selected delivery interval like Amazon and Shop-Apotheke. At...
Aug. 31, 2020 | EN, medical device, research
When people are missing limbs, medical device companies come into play, which has to produce specially made body parts for those affected. More and more of these companies are focusing on developing design objects that emphasize and strengthen the individuality and...
Aug. 31, 2020 | company news @en, EN, pharmacy
Due to fair competition conditions for prescriptions with prescription drugs, DocMorris, a subsidiary of the Swiss Zur Rose Group, does not want to give Rx bonuses on e-prescriptions in the future, as this bonus payment is actually also prohibited. The European Court...
