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Two state health ministries decide on emergency procedures for the transmission of prescriptions
Exceptional regulations of the state health ministries in two German federal states, in Schleswig-Holstein recently and in Saarland since last Friday, make it possible for medical practices and pharmacies to cooperate in a different way than usual in order to be able...
Corona pandemic: DIVI intensive care register shows free ventilation places online
The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine, DIVI for short, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the German Hospital Federation (DKG) have cooperated closely in order to quickly activate a website on which intensive care physicians...
Winners in times of crisis
Precisely because of the avoidance of social contacts, some companies in Germany are booming in the corona crisis in particular. Temporary closures of many companies, however, lead to an economic upswing in other sectors, from which online trade and parcel services in...
About the rose: Mail-order pharmacy profits from the Corona crisis
One company currently benefiting from the global Covid 19 crisis is the Swiss company Zur Rose and its subsidiary DocMorris. The Zur Rose Group is expecting a balanced result for 2020, partly because the current share of mail order business in the Rx segment is one...
Fresenius subsidiary Curalie to expand its digital services business
The subsidiary Curalie of clinic operator Fresenius, the largest operator of 86 Helios clinics and 126 medical care centers in Germany, has acquired the Frankfurt-based Digital Health Group (DGG). The announcement came from DAX group Fresenius itself. DGG is a...
Dementia diseases are associated with inflammation of the brain
US-American scientists from the Medical University of South Carolina have found in recent studies on mice that when the animals were given special lipids, inflammation in the brain was reduced, which would otherwise have resulted in memory loss. For this reason, the...
GWQ improves recipe verification process through cooperation with scanacs
The service company, GWQ ServicePlus AG, a community of medium-sized health insurance companies originally founded by company health insurance funds, has entered into strategic cooperation with scanacs GmbH and will decisively advance the digitalization of the health...
Ketogenic diet may initially have side effects
Ketogenic diets can cause flu-like symptoms at the beginning of a dietary change, according to findings of a recent study by scientists at the University of Tasmania. However, the study was evaluated without any actual evidence from those affected, because only online...
Risk factors have a decisive influence on life expectancy
A long-term study using questionnaires and measurements from 1987 to 2007, which was not completely completed until 2014 after monitoring the mortality rate, shown in men and women aged 25 to 74 years at that time that the lifestyle of the subjects had a significant...
Does the active ingredient in aspirin protect against liver cancer?
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have found in comparative studies with subjects who took low doses of aspirin daily, that when these subjects took the drug over a longer period of time, they had a lower risk of developing liver cancer. The risk was...