Aug 6, 2020 | pharmacy, statutory health insurance
According to information provided by the German Pharmacists‘ Association (DAV), pharmacies have been severely affected by the corona crisis in April and May 2020 after the „hamster buying month“ of March 2020, when the number of prescriptions of the...
Aug 5, 2020 | EN, medicine, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy
The daily work of pharmacists and pharmaceutical-technical staff is often characterized by obstacles because of the balancing act between what the doctor has prescribed and what the patient wants to take and what not must be done. Regulatory measures, such as a...
Aug 5, 2020 | EN, pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy
The ABDA, the Federal Association of German Pharmacists‘ Associations, the umbrella organisation of German pharmacists, points out in a press release that patients must be careful when dealing with non-prescription painkillers (analgesics), that they should...
Aug 5, 2020 | EN, health policy, pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy
DocMorris, the subsidiary of the Swiss Zur Rose Group, will now cooperate with the telemedicine specialists of the „Teleclinic“ platform in order to bring the prescription of medicines and their dispensing under one roof. To this end, Zur Rose is buying...
Jul 17, 2020 | company news @en, EN, pharmacy
As the online portal Finanznachrichten.de reports, the big American pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS Health are getting more and more competition from the online giant Amazon, which has also taken away former customers who now redeem prescriptions with prescription...
Jul 8, 2020 | company news @en, EN, pharmacy
The Dr. Wolff Group (Dr. August Wolff responsible for pharmaceuticals and Dr. Kurt Wolff responsible for cosmetics) from Bielefeld with its branded products Plantur, Alpecin, Alcina, Linola, Vagisan, Biorepair and Karex has drawn a positive balance for the first...