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What are the implications of digitisation for patients and legislators?
In an interview with the FAZ, Michael Dohrmann (Partner Industry Lead Life Sciences & Health Care) and Ibo Teuber (Director Life Sciences & Health Care at Deloitte) spoke about the potentials and challenges of the advancing digitization in the health sector....
Siemens Healthineers launches new telemedicine software
Siemens Healthineers has developed new telemedicine software that enables chronically ill patients to be cared for remotely. The software teamplay myCare Companion consists of a smartphone app for patients in which they can report their health status, medication,...
Health insurance companies record minus 1.3 billion in the first quarter
Last Friday, the Federal Ministry of Health (BGM) announced the balance for the first quarter of 2020. The statutory health insurance system recorded a deficit of 1.3 billion and financial reserves totalling 18.3 billion. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn, however,...
American research team develops a new patch for the treatment of skin cancer
A research team from Purdue University, USA has developed a new method for treating black skin cancer (malignant melanoma). The novel patch contains microscopic silicon needles that release their active ingredients into the skin over a period of several months. A...
New Corona-App of the Federal Government
One week ago the Corona-Warn-App was presented by the German government. The President of the German Medical Association Dr. Klaus Reinhardt now hopes that as many people as possible will use the application. For example, the app is "a suitable component of a strategy...
Study: Vitamin D may contribute to cancer prevention and prognosis
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....
Federal Health Minister Spahn favours corona mass tests at the expense of 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...
Ginger supplementation for diabetics with chronic periodontitis
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...
Treatment methods for venous insufficiency
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...
Are some batches of metformin-containing drugs contaminated with nitrosamines and therefore dangerous?
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...