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German pharmaceutical manufacturers under pressure
For 50 years now, the German Pharmaceutical Industry Association (BIP) has been analyzing pharmaceutical data. (BIP) has been analyzing pharmaceutical data for 50 years; this year, the anniversary edition is "Pharma Data 2020". According to this data, pharmaceutical...
Contribution increases or benefit cuts in the SHI system?
According to expert estimates, the additional contributions will have to rise drastically in 2022 at the latest if the deficit of the statutory health insurance funds (German: GKV) is to be absorbed. This is because the planned gentle increase in additional...
Summary Seven wishes you a Merry Christmas
A challenging year for all of us is coming to an end. We would like to thank all S7 Update readers and all partners for the good cooperation under the special circumstances in 2020. We are looking forward to start together into a new year with exciting projects and...
Inpatient facility staff at high risk for Covid 19 infection
Corona infection figures are still exploding in Germany. Doctors and nurses are also increasingly becoming infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus in hospitals. Despite infection, some of them have to continue working, especially those who remain asymptomatic, because the...
Scotland: Corona infection and mortality risk greater in poorer residential areas
In Scotland, in the northernmost part of the United Kingdom, regular statistical surveys are published on trends in poverty in not-so-privileged areas. This time, Dr. Nazir Lone of the University of Edinburgh studied the risk of infection and death in poorer areas of...
Study: Factors that determine the purchase price of a medical practice
The German bank for pharmacists and physicians (Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank, Apobank for short) and the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance (Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung, Zi for short) have found out which and how many takeover...
Press release: Over 50 years of KfH with new (digital) offers
The KfH Kuratorium für Dialyse und Nierentransplantation e.V. (Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation), based in Neu-Isenburg, has been in existence since 1969, having created and taken over the care structures for nationwide treatment of dialysis...
Do people in „essential“ occupational groups contract Covid-19 particularly severely?
Epidemiologists of a British observational study conclude that people in health care professions, but also in professions from the social sector, have a particularly high risk of becoming seriously ill with Covid-19 and even dying. A team of scientists from the...
M-sense migraine app available on prescription
Since December 14, 2020, physicians have been allowed to prescribe a further development of a well-known headache and migraine app on prescription, which sufferers can make use of for non-drug treatment methods from clinical practice, at least that is what the...
Knowledge of health issues depends on socioeconomic status
A press release from the Stiftung Gesundheitswissen (SGW), a non-profit operating foundation whose goal is for people to become co-creators of their own health, reveals that socioeconomic status in society generally determines whether or not someone lives a...