Jun 22, 2020 | EN, general conditions, statutory health insurance
The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), headed by Health Minister Jens Spahn, has prevailed and can now order corona mass tests in public institutions, even for symptom-free persons, if there has been 15 minutes contact with an infected person before. The exact details...
Jun 22, 2020 | Diabetes, EN, prevention, study
Ginger is very healthy and is therefore often used as an old household remedy. But the medicinal plant can do even more, as scientists from an Iranian research team of 50 people with type 2 diabetes have now discovered. In one study they proved the positive effect of...
Jun 22, 2020 | EN, study, therapy
People with venous insufficiency have a feeling of heaviness and tension in their legs, but also swelling and edema and varicose veins, if the chronic venous insufficiency is more developed and not treated. The venous-muscle pump in the legs and also the function of...
Jun 10, 2020 | cancer, Diabetes, drugs, EN, research
Some metformin-containing drugs that type 2 diabetics take to lower their blood sugar levels to normal levels are suspected of being contaminated with potentially carcinogenic nitrosamines, according to a report by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices...
Jun 10, 2020 | EN, statutory health insurance
The German Association of Pharmacists (DAV) recently presented the expenditure of the health insurance companies before and after the corona boom in March 2020, according to which March was the peak month for expenditure and prescription dispensing, also with regard...
Jun 10, 2020 | EN, general conditions
The NAV-Virchow-Bund, or VirchowBund for short, is the professional association of German doctors in private practice that represents the interests of doctors in private practice and outpatient care in all specialist areas at federal and state level. This association...