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Cancer mortality declines EU-wide – but exceptions confirm the rule
There are serious differences between the sexes in cancer mortality. In men, the mortality rates for stomach cancer and leukaemia are particularly sharply reduced, while in women it is ovarian cancer and also leukaemia. Looking at the last five years, from 2015 to...
Ultra fast insulin for better blood glucose control after meals
A new "mealtime insulin" has recently been launched on the market, which provides good glycemic control after the intake of a meal, especially for children and the elderly, but also in the context of gastrointestinal infections. It has been approved by the European...
Stationary pharmacies benefited particularly from the COVID 19 crisis in March
Market analysis by Sempera Consulting in cooperation with Insight Health and DatamedIQ shows that in the Corona crisis in March 2020, stationary pharmacies benefited more than mail-order pharmacies in terms of OTC preparations. Supply bottlenecks only slowed the boom....
Why do older people show poorer immune responses to coronavirus?
American scientists around Professor Janko Nikolich-Zugich of the University of Arizona in Tucson and other experts in the field of virology are currently trying to understand why especially older people die of the lung disease COVID-19. According to this, there is...
Diabetic foot syndrome and its consequences: Federal Joint Committee decides on guidelines for the second opinion
The Joint Federal Committee (G-BA) has just made the decision in Berlin that patients who might be threatened with amputation of the foot as a result of diabetic foot syndrome can obtain a second opinion from a doctor with expertise in this field, which would be...
Germans second best at dealing with SARS-CoV-2
A survey by the London think tanks Deep Knowledge Group (DKG) comes to the conclusion that the measures are taken in Germany, such as exit restrictions, nationwide tests and also the good equipment of hospitals in this country, have led to the fact that the Federal...
Why do diabetics show a severe course of coronavirus infection? Several explanations at a glance
Diabetics belong to one of the risk groups for COVID-19 disease. Chinese scientists have tried to find out the reasons for this in a recent series of cases involving non-diabetics and diabetics. But Italian scientists from Rome have also done research on this...
Coronavirus: Laboratory release most likely by accident
In a guest article in the opinion and debate magazine "The European" the renowned publisher Wolfram Weimer has published the true story about the beginning of the spread of the coronavirus. Other scientific research by various authors and journalists also points to...
Parties for financial support of people in care professions
In times of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Green Party is proposing the payment of an immediate premium for doctors and nurses, which could be paid out immediately in the amount of 1,500 euros. Then people working in nursing professions would be rewarded accordingly for...
Positive effects on the risk of stroke due to various lifestyle changes
In a long-term observational study over several decades by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, it was found that women can reduce their risk of stroke, which occurs on average at the age of 75 years, by changing their lifestyle, especially...