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Nursing rescue parachute protects nursing homes and services from high additional costs
With the help of a recently passed law, the nursing care insurance funds will provide financial support to the 11,700 homes and 15,000 nursing services, as Gernot Kiefer, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the central association of statutory health insurance...
Fresenius expands e-health offering to include telemedical care services
In order to ensure that chronically ill patients can be provided with digital health care services throughout Germany, the Fresenius subsidiary Curalie has acquired Ditale Gesundheitsgruppe GmbH, DGG for short. DGG is the main beneficiary of the acquisition because it...
Video consulting hours: Helpers in the Corona crisis in the outpatient sector
Deutsche Arzt AG, as a digital healthcare provider of care solutions for patients, doctors and health insurance companies, is a saviour in times of need, because innovative digital technologies in crisis situations such as the current corona pandemic ensure the...
Bosch Healthcare Solutions and Randox Laboratories develop Covid-19 rapid test
In order to contain the corona pandemic as quickly as possible, the world-renowned company Bosch and Randox Laboratories, a global leader in healthcare diagnostics based in the UK, have developed a fully automated molecular diagnostic test that is the only test that...
High purity fish oil preventively effective against cardiovascular diseases
Statistical surveys by scientists from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine have proven that the use of high purity! fish oil in the form of the active ingredient icosapent-ethyl as a complementary treatment in clinical studies in people with an...
In times of high demand and scarce supply, the mail-order business increases its prices
Dr. Kaske Marketingberatung in Munich, which focuses on mail-order pharmacies and the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, has found in an analysis that since the Corona crisis period, with an increase in demand from insecure customers for many drugs and OTC...
EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) will probably be postponed
Following a proposal by the European Commission, the EU states are considering postponing the entry into force of the EU Medical Devices Directive (MDR) by one year, which was originally scheduled to come into force on 26 May 2020. However, in view of the Covid 19...
Tafel credo: „As little customer contact as possible, as much help as possible
The food banks in Germany are suffering from the lack of donations, because for weeks now the German population has been buying more food than usual out of concern for the corona virus. For the poor and needy this means that there is less left for them than usual. In...
Damaged mitochondria lead to a decline in physical functions in old age
Mitochondria are cell organelles that are present in human cells in their thousands as power plants and are responsible for the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which functions as an energy source so that cells can start working. The cell organelles, are...
Tuberculosis: Forcing preventive treatment, not only in times of Covid-19
March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day, which has been designated today because Robert Koch made the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium "Mycobacterium Tuberculosis" on March 24, 1882, the "greatest infectious killer in the world". At the moment, 1.5 million people...