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Prescription substance containing morphine currently of great importance for pharmacies
Since there are currently supply bottlenecks of morphine-containing finished drugs, the standard reference work in the pharmacy, DAC/NRF, points out that pharmacies must help out with self-made prescriptions in order to guarantee the morphine administration in clinics...
Why does a coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection proceed so differently?
An expert on COVID-19 infections explains why some people fall ill more seriously than others. Michael Barczok is a pneumologist and explains: "80 percent of all people fall ill easily, which means that they feel little or no symptoms. The mild course of the disease...
Call of the RKI: Digital applications help to contain the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has just presented the new data donation corona app at a press conference on television. The app is now available for people with iOS and Android devices. The app is intended to help the RKI to gain more information about the...
Task Force COVID-19: Service providers ensure optimal care in exceptional pandemic situations
In a press release, the German Federal Guild of Orthopaedic Technology Associations clarifies that all medical supply stores and orthopaedic technology companies will continue to be open for the close-to-home and quality-assured supply of patient aids, because a...
Type 2 diabetes can be detected at an early stage with the help of the gripping force indicator
A recent study by Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, shows that a decrease in grasping power in otherwise healthy people can indicate type 2 diabetes. Representative samples of American health and nutritional studies from 2011 to 2014 were put into relation to...
New sport, not only for stress sufferers and diabetics
Sport in moderation is healthy and makes the body fit, but meditating is also good for our stressed-out personalities. The only problem here is sitting still. That is why experts like Prof. Dr. Petra Jansen, psychologist and holder of a chair for sports science at the...
Supply density with beds in hospitals in Germany, also in international comparison
The Federal Statistical Office recently reported the figures on the density of care in terms of hospital and intensive care beds in Germany compared to other OECD countries where the data originate from various surveys of the past seven years. According to these...
Survey of manufacturers on the situation of the OTC pharmaceutical market in the corona crisis
A survey conducted by Sempora Unternehmensberatung among OTC manufacturers on the sale of over-the-counter medicines (both prescription and non-prescription) in pharmacies has revealed that there are fears of a slump in sales due to the advance shifting of purchases...
New Digital Act: Changes and definitions
The second digitization law on patient data protection (PDSG) in accordance with the Digital Supply Act (DVG) will soon be discussed by parliament following a vote in the Federal Cabinet. It provides for a number of changes, which have been submitted to the Deutsches...
Telemedical services are well received by Germans
The German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, Bitkom for short, has just published the analysis of a telephone survey on how the German population stands on video consultation hours in the times of COVID-19. According to this,...