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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues six binding guidelines to improve the safety of new gene therapeutics
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as the regulatory authority for the registration and approval of drugs, has so far approved four gene therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases such as autoimmune diseases and genetic disorders in order to ensure new...
Restructuring in the Ministry of Health
From February Jens Spahn's plans to restructure the Ministry of Health come into force. In the future, there will be a new department 6, which will be responsible for health security, health protection, climate, and sustainability. The Federal Minister of Health has...
Federal Ministry of Health rows back on rehabilitation and intensive care reform
After criticism of the reform plans of Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn regarding the planned law on intensive care and rehabilitation for artificially ventilated patients - in 2018 19,000 outpatients and 3,400 inpatients were treated - Spahn is now changing his...
Wages in the nursing sector are rising continuously
The care commission consisting of employers and employees has just decided in Berlin to increase the minimum wages in the care sector. According to this decision, the minimum wage for nursing staff and assistants will be increased. From July 2021, the nursing staff...
Science: Sport has positive influence on brain health
Scientists at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University Medical Center Greifswald (UMG) led by Professor Hans-Jörgen Grabe have found evidence that cognitive performance is closely related to physical fitness. The conclusion of his...
Amazon expands business with prescription drugs
E-commerce giant Amazon is set to expand its prescription drug business beyond the USA, according to news channel CNN. Amazon has already applied for registration of the trademark "Amazon Pharmacy" for Canada, Australia, and Great Britain. According to media reports,...
Genome science provides insights for personalised medicine of the future
The conclusion of a research team of the American hospital network Mount Sinai is that findings about the human genome of the past 25 years, colloquially known as the genetic make-up, can have a positive influence on the health of each individual and the whole of...
BMC Congress in Berlin: Criticism of data protection and lack of networking
At this year's BMC Congress in Berlin, health experts focused on data protection and digital business models. For example, the Digital Supply Act (DVG) was welcomed in principle, but according to the panelists, it is only the beginning of a larger development. In this...
Shop pharmacy as online mail order company with significant increases
The large Dutch mail-order pharmacy, the Shop-Apotheke, continues to grow. The listed company recently presented sales increases and prescription growth of eleven percent on the basis of preliminary and unaudited calculations, which will be available as audited...
Researchers publish daring hypothesis: Cancer (among others) transmissible from person to person?
An international team of researchers led by the Canadian microbiologist and Professor Brett Finlay of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research of the "Humans & the Microbiome" program, CIFAR for short, has come up with a new hypothesis that investigates...