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Innovation Strengthens Health Literacy of MS Sufferers
Temedica, an innovative company from Munich that provides digital medical support to hundreds of thousands of patients, has entered into a cooperation with the biotech company Roche Pharma to support patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The free app, called Brisa,...
Criticism of Development of Intensive Care in Coming Months
Many health care experts criticized the crisis management in the pandemic combined with a shortage of nurses at the workshop held by the Central Institute for Health Care in Germany (Zi). According to the experts, both factors could lead to an undersupply of the...
KAI Management Conference and KAI Congress Special to Be Held in 2021
This year, the Congress for Out-of-Hospital Intensive Care and Ventilation (Kongress für außerklinische Intensivpflege und Beatmung, abbreviated KAI) will take place again in Berlin. The event date is October 7 and 8, 2021. What is new this year is that participants...
Is cancer treatment made possible by new vaccine?
Scientists led by study author Professor David H. Koch of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that vaccination in cancer therapy with certain fragments of cancer proteins can...
New US financial investor in Zur Rose
The internationally active U.S. investment company BlackRock, with nine trillion U.S. dollars in assets under management, is taking a stake in the Swiss company Zur Rose, the parent company of DocMorris. BlackRock has recently owned three percent of the share packages...
Will Baxter take over Hill-Rom after all?
Sources familiar with U.S.-based Baxter, one of the market leaders in pharmaceutical and medical technology, say that U.S.-based medical technology company Hill-Rom may be ready for acquisition after attempts failed in July. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that...
BioMedical launches new wound care product on the German market
BioMedical's Anscare products from Taiwan, part of the BenQ Materials Corp group, are set to revolutionize wound healing for infected chronic and poorly healing wounds in the outpatient and inpatient sectors. The Anscare range of tools are solutions for effective...
Direct brand sales of individual pharmacy-exclusive products
There are pharmacy-exclusive goods that are now not only offered and sold at pharmacies, mail order companies and other service providers such as Aponow, but also via a dedicated web store. These products include the cosmetics series of the company Wala/Dr. Hauschka,...
Is a ban looming on fax machines for sending health data?
In the German state of Bremen, the use and transmission of sensitive patient information and health data by fax machine will be prohibited starting in 2022 and will be punished as an illegality with fines of up to 20 million euros. This deterrent sum is intentionally...
Is the German healthcare system ready for electronic medical prescriptions?
The e-prescription has been on trial in the focus region of Berlin and Brandenburg since July 1 of this year, from being issued by doctors to being redeemed by patients in pharmacies. After about two months of testing, the Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung (DAZ) has now...