Okt 16, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, market knowledge, medical technology
The need for medical supplies will intensify in the coming years. This trend is influenced by various effects, such as demographics, development of disease and occurrence of disability. The exact numbers which will be realised in terms of the need of tools on the...
Okt 12, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, market knowledge
By 2030, the number of people needing care will rise by about a million to 3.4 million. This emerges from the Statistical Yearbook of Germany 2012, which was presented in Berlin. This calculation is based on the assumption of a constant age and gender care...
Okt 9, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, transactions
The Dutch Mediq-Gruppe, a global provider of medical devices and pharmaceuticals, acquires all assets in the U.S. company A-Med Health Care. The price adds up to EUR 29.4 million. A-Med provides urology products, especially for patients in California. Mediq entered...
Okt 9, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, transactions
Convatec has taken over the US company 180 Medical. The company, based in Oklahoma City, is a leading supplier of home care medical supplies, intermittent catheters and urological products. The purchase price is $321 million. Convatec, owned since 2008 by the private...
Sep 17, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, market knowledge
The Institute of Geriatrics at Uniklinik Köln has conducted a survey among 1,252 patients receiving treatment for nutritional therapy. Results showed that 17.7% of 80 year old (average age) patients are well nourished. It was also found that 58.7% were at a clear risk...
Aug 30, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, new products
Through an online store of home care supplier TransCare Service GmbH, people can now buy products – that are not prescribed by a doctor on prescription – from the therapeutic areas of clinical nutrition, diabetes, wound and the ostomy care sector as well...