Jun 26, 2020 | Digitalization, EN
In an interview with the FAZ, Michael Dohrmann (Partner Industry Lead Life Sciences & Health Care) and Ibo Teuber (Director Life Sciences & Health Care at Deloitte) spoke about the potentials and challenges of the advancing digitization in the health sector....
Jun 26, 2020 | EN, telemedicine
Siemens Healthineers has developed new telemedicine software that enables chronically ill patients to be cared for remotely. The software teamplay myCare Companion consists of a smartphone app for patients in which they can report their health status, medication,...
Jun 26, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
Last Friday, the Federal Ministry of Health (BGM) announced the balance for the first quarter of 2020. The statutory health insurance system recorded a deficit of 1.3 billion and financial reserves totalling 18.3 billion. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn, however,...
Jun 26, 2020 | cancer, EN, research, therapy
A research team from Purdue University, USA has developed a new method for treating black skin cancer (malignant melanoma). The novel patch contains microscopic silicon needles that release their active ingredients into the skin over a period of several months. A...
Jun 26, 2020 | Allgemein, App, EN
One week ago the Corona-Warn-App was presented by the German government. The President of the German Medical Association Dr. Klaus Reinhardt now hopes that as many people as possible will use the application. For example, the app is „a suitable component of a...
Jun 22, 2020 | cancer, EN, prevention, study
Scientists from two universities in Finland and Madrid have now discovered that vitamin D can be used to prevent cancer and that a good vitamin D status can have an anti-cancer effect, especially in colon and blood cancer, but also in breast and prostate cancer....
