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Electrospray Procedure Works for Aggressive Lung Cancer
Teams of researchers from several institutions in Switzerland have found in a research project on mice that an electrospray procedure combined with an anticancer drug shrinks lung tumors by more than 80 percent in seven days. The Swiss scientists from the University...
What Are the Costs of Developing New Drugs?
Michael Schlander and Karla Hernandez-Villafuerte have shed light on the systematic analysis of the actual development costs of new drugs for common and rare diseases (orphan drugs) conducted by cancer researchers and health economists from the German Cancer Research...
S7-Marktwissen – Study Digital Solutions in the Healthcare Market: Costs Down, Sales Up
The topic of cost explosion in the healthcare system has been a "perennial issue" for many years and will continue to be so against the background of demographic development, prevalence and incidence of diseases as well as technical progress and numerous other...
Health Information from the Internet Increasingly Popular
According to an analysis by Bitkom (German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media e.V. ), the German population has a growing need for information on healthcare topics. According to the study, information is increasingly being sought...
3M Reduces Documentation Effort for Medical Staff
U.S.-based 3M has succeeded in linking speech recognition and speech understanding in hospitals with its front-end speech recognition solution, 3M M*Modal Fluency Direct. 3M's system is compatible with all HIS systems. From any location in hospitals, doctors and...
Can Vaccination against Colorectal Cancer Provide Preventive Protection?
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University Hospital led by Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz and Matthias Kloor were able to show in experiments on mice that preventive vaccination helps to delay the...
Corona Study: Same Infection Rate in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People?
The results of a so-called pre-print study from Singapore show that the rate of infection and transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in vaccinated individuals is similar to that in unvaccinated individuals. Data from the U.S. and Asia fuel the suspicion that the viral...
DAK-Gesundheit Expands Digitization Measures
DAK-Gesundheit recently started cooperating with the software developer d.velop to simplify document management and business processes. Customers/insured persons and employees are to benefit from the solutions and products provided by d.velop. Over five million...
MEDCARE: Congress Will Not Take Place Again until 2022
The "MEDCARE" congress at the Leipzig Trade Fair will not be held again until 2022, on October 5 and 6. The event with a trade fair for clinical and out-of-hospital patient care was originally to be held on September 22 and 23 of this year. However, the corona...
Competence Extension for Swiss Pharmacists
Pharmacists in Switzerland are allowed to dispense prescription drugs under certain conditions, even if it is not an emergency. There is a specific list of indications with known active ingredients that has been drawn up by the Federal Department of Home Affairs, or...