Aug 31, 2020 | EN, study, telemedicine
A telephone study by the digital association Bitkom on the use of telemedical health services by people who are 65 years old and older has shown that these people are usually already interested in digital services in this area, but lack of knowledge and fears mean...
Jul 17, 2020 | ambulatory care, clinic, EN, market knowledge, study
In the light of increasing outpatient care and the growing networking of the players in the health care system, discharge management as an interface between clinical and outpatient care is becoming more and more important. The aim is to make the follow-up care of the...
Jul 17, 2020 | EN, homecare /nursing care, personnell, study
The scientific institute of the AOK, WIdO for short, has determined the ratio of sick leave of AOK members to the number of employees in the care of the elderly, health care and sick leave in relation to all AOK-insured persons. According to this, after looking at the...
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....
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...